edited to meet rule #3!
you left reddit because 3rd party apps were being killed off.
I left reddit because reddit sucks and I’ve been looking for an alternative for a long while now.
We are not the same.
i left because 3rd party apps were being killed off, I’m staying because this is a superior community
I left because the way they went about killing third party apps. Bad faith notification, shit communication, and slandering Christian.
my post is in the format of a meme, it’s not supposed to be taken seriously. but yeah it’s pretty ironic.
I haven’t deleted my account or anything, but after RIF Is Fun closes it’s doors, I will likely be on Reddit very seldomly if at all. Most of my browsing of Reddit has been via RIF since 2015. The official app has always been a slow, glitchy, ad-riddled piece of shit. RIF was like using a mobile-friendly version of the old layout and was 1000% more stable. So instead of finding a way to integrate something similar into the official app and fixing their bloatware, they decide to kill third party apps altogether. You’d think EA owned Reddit by the way they’re going about things these days.
No skin off my nose if Reddit ceases to function. The Reddit that exists today bares very little resemblance to the website I fell in love with 14 years ago.
People are not moving over here for convenience, it’s new young software with many flaws and missing features. I think most of us are just looking for a brighter future of social networks, one not dictated by a megacorporation and instead segmented more under our individual control. It’s impossible for this to match reddit in everything since that’s a company with thousands of employees and a 10 year headstart, but perfect shouldn’t be an enemy of good.
To be fair, kbin on a mobile browser is already leagues above the official reddit app
About the only thing that sucks is the comments being separated by page. Also, I don’t seem to get notification when someone replies to a comment/post.
So the only thing lacking here is just the user numbers
I had that problem too but turns out I didn’t turn on notifications in settings. Maybe tweaking that might help?
To me, I loved using Relay for Reddit, but them killing the 3rd party apps in itself wasn’t why I left. The whole situation just showed that Reddit doesn’t care about the community, they just care about profit, and they’ll happily shaft the users and prominent members of the community.
This, I was all going with the flow with the blackout (my 3rd party app in particular is apparently “in talks” so good chance won’t get shut down), but after the AMA I just left. I spend time here and on tildes, fulfills my need to be social on the internet.
Hell, before the AMA I was willing to pay a sub to use an app on my phone, not anymore . . . after all the shit of the past decade I am just done, and I think there are thousands like me.
I don’t think most people left solely because of 3rd party apps being killed. I think they left because of the loss of trust that move and the subsequent negative PR created.
It’s natural people are looking for something new, even though the quality of life is lower for now. Some things are more important than convenience.
Edit: I forgot to answer the question. No, I don’t think it’s ironic. I think it’s telling.
Well for me it’s that Reddit simply won’t have any third-party apps in the near future (because of the pricing), while fediverse apps like lemmy and kbin, despite not having a wide range of options for them right now, can have as many as it wants and have no way to kill them.
Plus if they’re wiling to do this, who knows whether they’ll keep old.reddit.com around in the near future as well?
Do you really take a pragmatic stance like this for everything in life, or do you just not like to talk about abstract concepts like emotions, trust, having principles etc.?
What I’m really asking is, does being treated like shit and taken for an idiot by a huge company have any bearing on your decision or is it truly only about the user experience of using said company’s services?
Uh… I suppose I am taking a pragmatic stance? At the end of the day it’s just an internet service, I don’t have any “personal connections” with Reddit so I don’t feel anything remotely close to “being treated like shit and taken for an idiot”.
They’re doing stuff that’s inconveniencing and disrupts my expected flow, so I’m leaving the platform - that’s more or less the whole situation for me.
To a certain extent (almost) every large company treats it’s consumers poorly. I would argue it tends to start around the time the company starts thinking of the shareholders above everything else.
Ethical consumption (as I’ve heard it called) is difficult, if not impossible, to completely perform. I think most of the time, you take the company that fits your needs the best and rarely do you inconvenience yourself in order to boycott a company that takes unethical (or similar) actions. Even if you do, usually the replacement company (or going without that product if there is no acceptable replacement) has some sort of new benefit.
Note: I am not super educated on this topic and am mostly talking out of my head.