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It would depend on the price, and also we would need to live in a hypothetical world where Reddit hasn't done any of the stupid shit they've done in the past month. As of right now, I can't imagine giving Reddit my money knowing what a PoS spez is

Lol, not anymore.

I never paid for it before and I wouldn't start now. Especially not after how they've been handling the whole situation.

I do agree with what you're saying, though. Many people would have been fine with paying to keep their favourite apps.

No, because the sudden API lockout of third party apps with yearly subscriptions shows they do not care about contractual obligations.

I think if they'd framed it properly, in that by using Apollo I'm bypassing their ad revenue and costing them money, I'd see it as a reasonable compromise that I pay for Premium to support the company and carry on using Reddit in the way I preferred.

Now? Fuck u/spez

Reddit exists to make its investors money, that's it's only goal now. The userbase are a complication to deal with in order to appease the advertisers. It's not the platform for users any more.

In all honesty, maybe I would go back if I could pay a few bucks a month to use my own client that didn't show ads.

But that's because there are a few niche communities on Reddit that don't seem to want to migrate anywhere else.

Initially I would have for like 5€/month I guess. But now, I'll just directly use the browser with ublock when I need something. For scrolling I'll stay here

Maybe if the fediverse didn’t exist.

Lol no, fuck Reddit. Enough is enough. There's no salvaging that.

I mean, it's not a theoretical scenario, Infinity is going the paid route so you can do just that if you want. Except of all nsfw, which is exactly what I was using Infinity for. Anyway poor Infinity dev, putting their head into the lion's mouth.

Some time ago most likely yes. As for now I would never go back to reddit.

No reddit is dead to me. Anything that is used by ceos to fuck over the people. Let it burn for all I care.

Actually scratch that. Let it pump to obscene levels and after all those rich riches have bought in. Dump that thing into the Earth's core.

Far too much money and corruption in this world.

At this point, no. I took June as a Lemmy test drive, and turns out I like it better. The API change doesn't affect me too much, as I primarily interacted with Reddit through a web browser, but generally things have been going downhill for Reddit. I found a viable alternative, I'm sticking with it.

Probably, yeah. Now I'm less enthusiastic since I don't trust Reddit at all and I'd be only willing to pay as a way to support them.

Not with how the site’s being run now, no

No. They're allowing more and more spam outside of their ad platform. They're actively user-hostile. I already don't like it for free, why the hell would I want to pay for it?

I absolutely would have if things were handled differently, but at this point my only goal is to see spez get his ass fired.

Nah.

I would have IF it had been the solution Reddit had came up with in the first place AND they hadn't destroyed my trust in them with their handling of the protests.

I have an issue with your proposed solution though: it does not address the use case of moderation / accessibility / utility tools and bots.

No way. I've lost all faith in Reddit as a company.