• billothekid2
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    02 years ago

    Holy shit! Good for them! Hope they see the benefits of the fediverse at some point.

  • Thorvid_botlakhan
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    42 years ago

    goood!
    Reddit behaved in such a horrible way, that I feel like API pricing was the least of the bad…

    One could argue about their fairness and aim to destroy 3rd party apps, and I had already closed my accounts at that very step.

    But the way they treated mods, forced subs to open and behaved like pure evil assholes, I really see how companies or more “official” subreddits with a touch of interest in their users, would feel the desire to leave and close bridges

    • mxjzm
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      32 years ago

      I feel the same way.
      As an Apollo user, I didn’t immediately leave since I wanted to see if some agreement would be done.

      But the way they treated the devs is insulting, I work on IT and know a bit of how complex and time consuming this is; doing all this work just to be considered a parasite to be cut, and seeing how horrible the AMA was; really showed Reddit’s true colors.

      Currently liking this federated initiative, big potential and less company ruining agenda. Very comfy here.

      • Midas
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        12 years ago

        I didn’t even use Apollo but the defining moment for me was when spez lied about his interactions with the dev. That shit is foul and I just do not want to associate with that.

      • MsPenguinette
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        02 years ago

        If Apollo works things out with reddit, I’d be willing to consider keeping reddit as a secondary source of content. But I think that bridge has been burnt so bad that that is highly unlikely

        • Pixelologist
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          22 years ago

          The Apollo dev (Christian) is understandably not interested in working with reddit at all at this point.

          As an aside https://wefwef.app is a fediverse web app that’s heavily inspired by apollo

    • SSTF
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      The underhanded, lying, victim blaming actions from reddit were so much worse than the shutdown on its own. If reddit had been more honest about their intentions of shutting down 3PA from the beginning, 3PA users still wouldn’t have been thrilled, but we wouldn’t be seeing this reddit meltdown.

    • Limitless_screaming
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      02 years ago

      I don’t even care about the API prices and I used to use the official Reddit mobile app before migrating.

      I’ve been looking for an open source Reddit like platform since the Twitter drama started and people started migrating to Mastodon, but there wasn’t much content on them, until now, so I jumped on the band wagon.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        I felt this. I just honestly needed another option and so star this seems to be it. I don’t understand the difference between kbin and lemmy. I’m hoping apps just end up supporting both platforms/instances.

  • SuperSpaceFan
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    02 years ago

    I haven’t checked out the sub. Any word yet on where they will move to?

    • hypelightfly
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      12 years ago

      The sub itself isn’t moving. This is a Mojang employee saying they will no longer provide updates or post on Reddit, or refer players there.

  • Manifish_Destiny
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    142 years ago

    Welcome to the ‘find out’ phase, which should wrap up nicely by around the 7th.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        I imagine because any impact won’t be seen immediately and a week seems like a good amount of time

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        I’m guessing it’s because it’s a week after 3rd party apps shut down. A lot will change when that happens, and the 7th is far enough from the 30th to feel it.

    • Newo
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      12 years ago

      I’m out of the loop here, what happens on the 7th?

      • DreamyDolphin
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        62 years ago

        The 3rd party apps are closing at the end of this month, which means there’ll be somewhere around a week or so of people realising just how bad the official app is, plus decreased quality content as the actually-motivated people who post things continue their gradual migration away from reddit and driving redditors to seek other places to gather.

        • uxl
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          02 years ago

          I just wish more people knew to come here. I even snuck this alternative into a presentation at a Fortune 150…

          • DreamyDolphin
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            02 years ago

            People will come, it’s just a matter of time and having the patience to cultivate organic communities rather than trying to simply will them into existence all at once a la GooglePlus (or whatever their attempt at a social network was called)

            • metaStatic
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              12 years ago

              like everything google kills it was the best of it’s kind but wasn’t immediately profitable so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • TaygetaDuck
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          22 years ago

          Meanwhile all of the repost bots can post and comment on each other’s threads keeping the Reddit server humming away.

          Good riddance.

          • Hyperreality
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            32 years ago

            It’s kinda funny in a dystopian way.

            A lonely guy playing a creepy hentai game gets some sexual gratification from his time spent interacting with a piece of software and is at least somewhat self-aware. He knows it’s just software, even if he ‘married’ his bodypillow.

            Meanwhile there are increasing numbers of people unaware they’re regularly interacting with bots online, not realising one of the reasons social media is making them sadder is because they’ve atttempting to fulfill their need for social interaction with a facsimile thereof.

            It’s not unlike Idiocracy, where they give the plants Brawndo instead of water, then wonder why the plants are dying. Vast swathes of the world are feeding their social needs with social media brawndo.

            • Deceptichum
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              12 years ago

              On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a bot

              Also you’re blaming the medium, rather than the malicious actors.

              If AI text generative technology was around a century earlier you’d have people being penpals or print newspaper write-ins with a bot instead. Communicating through text is inherently risky, so best to blame the people who abuse that fact instead.

              • cyberian_khatru
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                22 years ago

                you’re blaming the medium

                I don’t think that’s implied in the post. Also reddit inc is complicit in the bot farming since it boosts their engagement metrics.

            • killick
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              32 years ago

              But, Brawndo has what plants crave. It has electrolytes.

          • tuxrandom
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            12 years ago

            At some point, it will just be repost bots having conversations in the comments of posts “created” by other repost bots.

            • Kbin_space_program
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              02 years ago

              I realized that after deleting my oldest reddit account I should have sold the damn thing.

              Might work out how to do that yet for my remaining accounts

              • curiosityLynx
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                12 years ago

                I like my username too much to have a hand in making it shill ads and misinformation.

                • Anarch157a
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                  12 years ago

                  Yup. I’m Anarch157a everywhere (except Mastodon, for reasons), Steam, Lemmy, Discord, etc. Having my old - now deleted - Reddit account as a bot could spill over my identity in other services.

            • HarkMahlberg
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              42 years ago

              /r/subreddit_simulator wasn’t just an experiment, it was prophetic.

              • Anarch157a
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                12 years ago

                It ended up as /u/Spez’s roadmap for the future of Reddit.

      • Dav
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        52 years ago

        It’ll take about a week for the ‘find out’ phase to wrap up, then we’re onto the lesser known ‘baby please come back I can change’ phase.

  • fische_stix
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    12 years ago

    This is what all responsible game, media, and other creators need to do. Keep the “…and find out” coming.

  • PabloDiscobar
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    02 years ago

    They wanted out anyway, Microsoft wants control and they were using Reddit just like DJI is using reddit: they were a bit forced to follow. This is a perfect opportunity to leave and make the support happen on their own platform. Other big brands will be inspired and will leave reddit too.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      Minecraft dev here: support on Reddit was always more of a passion project for a few people and not a hard mandate.

      Leaving reddit was the teams choice (I assume for the same reason some of you left, reddit went to shit).

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Have they considered going someplace else like Lemmy? I was a little disappointed that they didn’t offer an equivalent alternative to go to.

        • EvilMonkeySlayer
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          12 years ago

          At a guess if something like here starts becoming popular with people I suspect they’ll comment here for example. Kbin is growing, see what happens I guess.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Any plans on moving to a different platform like lemmy here? Or is it something that might just happen organically?

    • cazzodicristoOP
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      02 years ago

      the way I read it was that Minecraft is a community that holds the contributions of its base in high regard, and that’s why they can’t associate with reddit anymore because reddit now stands for shitting on its users and destroying their work instead of cherishing it.

      hence the comments about recent changes introduced by management affecting the community and how that’s the reason they feel reddit is no longer an appropriate place.

      • PrinzKasper
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        12 years ago

        I mean, if that was their reasoning they should be leaving Twitter as well