Louis is great. He’s a big advocate for the end user in all sorts of situations from right to repair, smart/cloud tech, to pretty much any issue where a big business screws over their users. Been watching him for years. I totally agree, keep the blackout ongoing and move away from Reddit. Fuck /u/spez.
I really thought I’d have trouble moving on from Apollo. I do still fully support Christen so have stopped using Reddit on blackout day one. Between Lemmy and kbin I’ve been getting my fix scrolling for info. While it’s not perfect, it’s getting there and I like the federation aspect. So FU u/spez
He ends the video with this, which I thought summarized his thoughts well:
" ‘No hit to revenue.’ (quoting Hoffman) Your 2 day blackout did nothing. But that doesn’t mean that it has to be in vain. Because you can convert that blackout into an indefinite one, at the blink of an eye. That’s what I’m doing. And that’s what I hope all of you do as well. I want you to teach Steve Hoffman a lesson. I want you to teach him a lesson that his website is not valuable because of the domain name, the servers, the API, or the brand. It’s valuable because of you."
This was a great point, yes. The whole blackout can only really have an effect if the users show that it was not “just noise”, that they don’t want to be treated as addicts that you can just ignore, because they can’t just leave.
I always used the official app for Reddit and used new Reddit on pcs, but how can you return to a platform that abuses its partners like this. They way they treated the Apollo developer and now basically insult their users and unpaid moderators, it is almost unbelievable that a company would go this far to upset its users.
There would probably have been less uproar if they just said in an honest way, from next month on we will ban all 3rd party apps, instead of lying about everything, act like you are listing to the community and then not answer anything. There is no way upsetting your users like this can be good for selling the company …
Used to be a fan of Louis back on my days of computer repair shop. Nice to see he is still going strong!
But yeah, the writing on the wall is clear, and it’s not just Reddit. Imho, this situation emphasizes the importance of smaller, connected communities rather than massive social media platforms. We came to love massive social networks, but didn’t realize the consequences of getting lost in the crowd and becoming mere data points for profit. Small, connected communities offer a more personal and respectful alternative.
What we have here with the Fediverse is a gold mine. Picture 00’s phpbb forums, but all with access to each other. That just sound like a good time to me. It’s rough around the edges, sure, but it’s our own corner of web.
That’s how I’ve been starting to see this all as well. The seperate, smaller instances remind me a lot of 00’s phpbb forum, but it’s with the UX of Reddit. Lastly the intercompatibility feels comparable to e-mail: It doesn’t matter that I use gmail and you use Outlook, we can still send eachother an e-mail and both servers will talk to eachother without any issue. It’s the some of the best of many worlds and I’m feeling Lemmy and Kbin are here to stay for me.
What’s sad is that the 00s phpbb were a step back from Usenet and BBSs that federated in the 80s.
This was a great watch, thanks. I haven’t watched Rossmann since I did tech support for Apple but he’s always been the side of the average joe. I’m currently going back and watching his other videos regarding this Reddit shittery.
