I’m not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all

But, when I think about it even if spez did actually listen and reverse all changes I don’t think i want to go back to Reddit cause from what Ive seen Lemmy is just friendlier and less :Be Corporate Friendly: I would honestly love it if Lemmy did a project like r/place one of these days so we could see what the internet is actually like instead of what happened in 2022 (I really did enjoy what a bunch of communities did but when the mods started abusing their powers to make it corporate r/place lost so much meaning) but i am curious since i’m not going back is there anything Reddit can do to make you go back to Reddit?

  • cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business
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    2 years ago

    Funny, I was just having that discussion with someone.

    I think the problem is all these platforms think the platform is the value and not the content made by the users.

    And of course, since they have the best platform, it’d be inconceivable that anyone would ever leave because they’re the best.

    Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, and Twitch are all doing exactly the ‘value is the platform’ while taking a massive shit on the creators and users that made the platform have any value in the first place, then acting confused why people are angry about how they’re behaving.

    No actual human gives a crap about the platform: nobody goes to these sites to go to the site, they go there for the content from someone they like.