My sentiments exactly. I wonder what it’s like for the reddit staff to work with such a gaslighting, condescending and deceitful boss.

We owe the Apollo dev a lot for shining a bright light at the leadership of reddit and specifically /u/spez.

This is a nice one. Pleasantly surprised that an Android client existed and that it was pretty good too.

The irony is that reddit is creating its own competition - when before there was nothing.

Back tracking a few years when digg began to self-destruct, reddit was, in fact, a viable competitor.

Reddit never had a competitor until reddit itself, through the sheer incompetence of its gaslighting CEO, forced the creation of multiple (now) viable competitors.

My synopsis is that if any big corporations joined the Fediverse they would fracture it.

I’m not so sure. Facebook has an onion version that runs on the tor network. Big tech dominates the clear web but there’s plenty of room for everyone else.

Ultimately you have user types. In a few more months, LemmyVerse could have a couple of million active users.

I’d bet the vast majority would scoff at a fediverse version of Facebook. It’s just a different crowd - not unlike the tor network where Facebook (probably, maybe?) exists in nmae only.

I’m pretty sure it was ‘Starship Troopers’.

That, or Christian made a pretty expensive mistake…

I wouldn’t put a lot pass /u/spez, including offering special deals on API pricing. Especially if he thinks it would make Christian Selig look bad.

It’s precisely the kind of thing a lying, gaslighting and vindictive /u/spez would do.

Agreed. The only reason I found Liftoff was because of this post (List of lemmy apps): https://lemmy.ml/post/1466515

It still doesn’t show up for me on when I’m on Google Play.

I can’t believe that with the API pricing the way it is, it’s financially viable to continue developing this app. It only makes sense if Spez offered this (and some other developers) a backroom deal (complete with NDA).

Spez has shown himself to be a lying, vindictive douche. If he can make Christian Selig look bad (for exposing reddit and Spez himself for what he is), it’s something he would appear to relish. The way Spez doubled-down on his vindictive and defamatory statements during the AMA just goes to show that there’s no level he won’t sink to.

Also, if the API pricing was lowered - it’s a last minute sign of (quietly) back-tracking given the immense backlash it has caused.

The initial API pricing was meant to drive out all reddit clients. It seems to me that reddit clients still operating after July the 1st have received (much) lower API pricing (or are not being charged at all - in the case of RedReader). It’s just too expensive otherwise.

Reddit used to be able to do two things. 1. Allow me to express myself and 2. Entertain. They really stopped entertaining me a long while ago. They also didn’t engage me enough for me to want to express myself. I already had a foot out the door.

Point 1 is filled with Hacker News, Lemmy and tildes. They are all similar but different. With lemmy… you kind of take your shoes off and relax (respectfully). With HN and Tildes: you are the best version of yourself.

Point 2 is taken up by TikTok. I use TikTok on an older dedicated secondary tablet with a fake gmail account, no contacts. The tablet only does TikTok and nothing else in order to alleviate privacy issues, etc.

HN, Lemmy, tildes and TikTok provide an experience that far surpasses that of reddit.

I don’t think there’s a single “main” computer anymore. My home computer is Linux Mint Cinnamon. My mobile computer (which I use nearly as much as my desktop OS) is Android.

My next smartphone is going to allow installing a privacy-respecting custom ROM (because Linux on mobile really isn’t there yet). Once I do that, I’ll focus on f-droid apps only. Something to look forward to.