I’m not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all
But, when I think about it even if spez did actually listen and reverse all changes I don’t think i want to go back to Reddit cause from what Ive seen Lemmy is just friendlier and less :Be Corporate Friendly: I would honestly love it if Lemmy did a project like r/place one of these days so we could see what the internet is actually like instead of what happened in 2022 (I really did enjoy what a bunch of communities did but when the mods started abusing their powers to make it corporate r/place lost so much meaning) but i am curious since i’m not going back is there anything Reddit can do to make you go back to Reddit?
Open the source, license it to the public, and federate.
I would agree, but would also accept at the very least not going public. Going public ruins companies in the long-term. Short term they have a bunch more capital to make improvements, but it eventually always spirals down until they are just money printers for the investors and don’t care about anything
Because the point of having such a huge website was always to make money. You need decentralization to remove some of that profit motive.
I think making profit is OK for a service I use every day, I’m not mad at that. It’s more the making profit at the cost of all else that I don’t really support
But you’re right that no profit motive at all is the true ideal
This is where I’m at. The only reason I ever joined Reddit is because of the centralization of the internet. Now I’m doing my part to keep building momentum for modern, free, and independent platforms.