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The AMA with u/spez has started. Get your popcorn ready. It’s already been a good start

Hacker News: Reddit bans subreddit detailing how to move to competitor Kbin

KbinMigration Subreddit URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/KbinMigration

Hacker News Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36268458

BBC coverage: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65855608

r/iPhone mods 6 hours ago: In less than 24 hours, /r/iPhone will be going private indefinitely.

TechCrunch: Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA

Spamming /r/LemmyMigration on all his answers. Doing my part lol

In my opinion, we're reaching a moment where people are realizing that having lots of users doesn't matter that much if you can't monetize them. We took a lot of services for granted that maybe don't make any financial sense, which probably only survived because both the company and investors hoped that as long you could attract users, you could monetize them later.

I think that "later" is now.

Today I noticed that youtube has a new feature that unlocks more bitrate, but only for premium users (there's two 1080p options, one normal and another with more bitrate). I'm expecting that these social medias and other tech companies will try to monetize us further

"First, thank you for all the years of dedication to Reddit. You’re amazing." - My favorite Mod post of the AMA

While tangentially related, if this shouldnt be here, let me know.

Reddit also appears to be experimenting with disabling mobile web access to circumvent ads.

I read somewhere that the Infinity dev would just let us grab our own personal Reddit API keys and build the app from source.

If that is actually the case, we'd all individually be under the free limit. That is of course if Reddit gives out those API keys to everyone.

Obviously this solution would be challenging and the barrier to entry would be higher than just joining Lemmy or something. But it could be an option.

I'm hanging on to my account until June 30th—so I can say a bittersweet goodbye to Reddit is Fun—and then I'm deleting it; Reddit is only going to get worse from here, and I don't want to be around to see it. I'm grateful that this mess has driven so many of us to seek out kinder, more thoughtful communities, and I hope said communities can retain their exceptional cultures as the Reddit exodus continues to escalate.

Here's a link to Cory Doctorow's article on the 'enshittification' of TikTok, which reads as supremely relevant here.

Time to get my popcorn ready! (First post from my instance).

The Verge: Reddit won’t budge on the API changes that are shutting down apps like Apollo

Incredibly sad to see corporate greed takeover. It's only a matter of time until they remove the old interface. I will definitely stop using Reddit altogether on mobile. It'll be quite hard for me to stop using it on desktop, but I might just give it all up on June 30th.

It’s sad to see Reddit go down this path, but the writing has been on the wall for awhile now. Losing Apollo is what had me make the jump to Lemmy.

Hopefully we build a strong community here.

Edit: typo

AskHistorians and uncertainty surrounding the future of API access:

Putting into layman's terms what reddit is deleting. Also the number of false promises by Big Reddit, it's just crazy.

My concern is that communities on Lemmy are fractured by instance. You CAN read or subscribe to communities on any instance, but communities with the same topics (or even the same names!) on different instances are in no way connected. For example, there can be a community called "Books" on every instance, but if you subscribe to one you will NOT see posts in any of the other Books communities on other instances. You'd have to go out, specifically find each one of them, and subscribe to them separately.

Not to mention communities with different names, but that cover the same essential topic. For example, I'm subscribed to the "Literature" community here. It's nice. But it's entirely disconnected from any of the "Books" communities on other instances. I'm not sure how that sort of fracturing could be addressed. I understand that there's a plan to eventually allow "MultiReddit" style aggregating, allowing users to group a number of communities into a single reading group, but that would only apply to what that individual user would read. No one else would have the benefit of seeing all the posts from those communities in a single group unless they individually recreated that collection.

What might work would be to bake in a set of standard all-instance communities which would automatically merge the content from all instances for those topics for all users. But I'm not sure that would work, since not all instances have to federate with all other instances.