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Engadget shouted out Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon in their Reddit coverage today: The Reddit blackout is already forcing unexpected changes (www.engadget.com)

submitted 1 year ago by dirtmayor@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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Meanwhile, the blackout has affected Reddit in other important ways. There’s been a small, but growing push among some power users to federated Reddit alternatives like Lemmy and kbin. These decentralized platforms are still niche, and have many of the same challenges as Mastodon and other Twitter alternatives. Yet there seems to be growing interest from some corners of Reddit in recent weeks.

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[–] NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“These people who are mad, they’re mad because they used to get something for free, and now it’s going to be not free,” he said in an interview with The Verge.

I find this an irritating statement. Before this shit-show, I would have paid ~$5 /month to keep using Reddit the way I was. I got huge value from all the different communities - and their history - that Reddit made possible. But they never made that a real option and instead burnt a lot of bridges.

[–] TheDefiant604@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think he is mad, because for years he's been getting all this content for free...

[–] 567PrimeMover@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I wonder how upset he would get if mods start demanding compensation for their free labor

[–] kobra@readit.buzz 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah spez could have easily cashed in on a lot of money with Apollo and the other 3rd party apps if they worked together. So glad he chose this path though, fuck him.

[–] itchy_lizard@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

Of course they're talking about the Reddit getting content for free, right?