SNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit.

I wonder why there isn't an army of people in this thread telling us how it costs money to host a social networking platform and we shouldn't expect something for nothing a website has a right to charge users for access and if you don't like it then don't use it?

Like in the YouTube threads. 🤔

I know, right? It was like a steady stream of assholes, habitual doom scrolling, and occasionally a few good topics or people chatting.

I made a pact to stop using Reddit as soon as Infinity stopped working for me. It worked for months, but when it stopped, I held myself to it. Not only did I deactivate my account, I used a service to overwrite all of my content, and also then delete it beforehand. My mental health has been recovering steadily ever since.

Even if I did get something positive out of it, I refuse to be part of an ecosystem run that treats it's users and volunteers with such open hostility. The whole saga with Spez lying and bullshitting to make other people look bad, and the pro-corporate bots that popped up from time to time turned me off it entirely. I miss it sometimes, but what's the point of having a sense of ethics or personal conviction if you shrug your shoulders and do what you want regardless of whether you know you should?

It's like someone claiming to be a vegetarian, but they eat meat whenever they feel like it because it tastes good.

Thats cool to know. Thanks!

Well in the reddit case there's a payoff and then one gets to walk away from the sinking ship. They just need to get things pumped up for the IPO and then who cares what happens from there. It's time to cash out and it becomes someone else's problem to deal with.

This IPO is the only thing that going to give them anything remotely near Musk money and it's not going to anywhere near at much where one can crash and burn another social media site for the hell of it...

This is their way of destroying global communication. We the people were organising using their sites. That obviously couldn't happen so they threw the toys out of the pram and its worked. There is less of a global forum with reddit and twitter fkd.

Relay for reddit was my choice for years and years.

As soon as that subscription deal popped up I uninstalled.

Hated to do that.. but I'm not paying reddit to feed me user generated content.

Boost for lemmy is the way now.

First Apolo, then Narwal, Alíen Blue barely works, but not able to log in or search for particular sub, which was the main reason I was still using it. No longer a redditor, I identify Ada Lemmor

Edit- I’m going to leave it like that. You win auto correct

It's like reading the Kobe Bryant autopsy report. Yeah it's awful, but it happened a long time ago and he was instantly dead before the really awful stuff happened anyway.

Here's the thing, reddit hopes so too. Reddit's goal isn't to make money on 3rd party apps, it's to price the api high enough to draw people to their free ad riddled dumpster fire of an app. It's the same reason you can't get nsfw subs on the api.

Likely yes, because it seems most of the people use the atrocious official client instead of third party client. And access through that is of course still free, well, paid by ads obviously.

Everyone couldn't have. The more users you have using a app the higher the API hits, the higher the number of API hits the more you'd have the charge. So the more popular apps with the most users couldn't survive ~~odd~~ on just $2.99 a month and certainly not while continuing to update and upkeep that app (or those apps) because they wouldn't be making any money let alone enough to justify the work they'd be doing.

Additionally this isn't an ad free version of Reddit you'll be getting with this sub. It's still Reddit with ads.