I've mourned more for the shells of the eggs that I broke today. That was a tasty omelette.
I'm genuinely happy that Reddit is dying. Yes, it'll lead to some information loss and that's bad, but we've been stuck in that abusive platform for too long. Now at least saner alternatives will get some room to grow.
Why 3x? I'm curious on the number. In an admitted naive way, I'd expect them to demand from the third party app exactly the same as they'd get through the official one.
Let’s hope they walk this back.
I don't hope so. That wasn't the first case of Reddit being user-hostile; it has been doing this for a long time already. I think that it's actually better in the long run if they keep the decision, Reddit undergoes brain drain, and people move out of the site.
I've crossposted this video into the community I've created about the downfall of Reddit. I'll mention here a few highlights from watching it:
Rossmann exposed the blatant difference between the API access prices in Imgur and the ones demanded now by Reddit. I think that this is an amazing point to expose, because it shows that Reddit is lying when it says that it is not trying to kill third party apps.
Rossmann also mentions the impact of this over the blind people. For all intents and purposes, if you're blind then Reddit doesn't want you in their platform.
A rather nice excerpt from the video:
The community will remember what you did, and screwing over vast swaths of disabled people is a really, really great way to look like the type of piece of shit that nobody wants to give money or revenue to, ever again.
I'm in the same bag, I should have ~100 mods. It still feels vanilla - RimWorld, Minecraft, and Factorio feel really weird in this aspect.
I'm mostly into SNES and GBA emulation. Downloaded full packs of ROMs for each.
Currently playing Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. I avoided this game for a long time due to the bad rep ("it's too easy"), but I've been having fun with it. (Blazing Sword is still better though.)
Death by a specially illiterate Lucifer, I guess?
Context for my username: it's the result of my 15yo edgy self trying to say "lightbringer" in Latin, without knowing how Latin compounds work. ("Lucifer" is fully regular, by the way.) Eventually however I stuck with the username across multiple sites, and it's still going strong two decades later.
Niche. It's a genetics game, where you control a colony of critters that hop from island to island.
It has a thousand flaws, and it gets repetitive/boring over time but damn, the breeding mechanic feels so right. Not just because it's "realistic", but also because it feels sensible and intuitive.
Probably Minecraft, if you count modded instances of.
I hope that this becomes a Digg moment, but I don't think that it will - odds are that they already predicted that some users will leave, and the amount of users leaving will be still small enough to make the move profitable.
I agree that, past a certain size, it becomes harder to enforce behaviour. However that's where I think that the nature of the Fediverse helps a lot.
As long as maintenance of the userbase is done diligently, and no Eternal September changes the nature of the core userbase, people who want a rougher community will eventually migrate to their own instances. It's hard to do this in Reddit, but perfectly doable in the Fediverse, and the migrating users don't even need to break ties with Beehaw.
So in effect, the problem (people wanting to behave in a way not allowed by the community) solves itself. I think that this gives Beehaw way more room to scale than it looks like.
It's weird how addictive those games can be.
Everybody knows that it was bound to happen. Reddit is hopeless and the blackout on its own won't do good in the long run.
That's why I'm trying to kick this out: