Spez to step down and Reddit to charge reasonable rates for their API.

I understand that as a heavy Apollo user, I would not have generated any ad revenue for them. But I’d be happy to spend a few dollars a month to cover the costs.

But now that I’m getting used to Lemmy, I don’t want to give Reddit back any power they have lost. One man was able to ruin what was a world community.

i don’t think there is anything that would get me back on their platform. the way they treated the people who helped make them a success was disgusting

I don’t see myself going back. The remaining trust I had in the platform was burned by spez and the executives.

But setting that aside, what they could do is:

1. Fire spez.
2. Come up with a real plan for 3rd party apps with reasonable timelines and costs. (Really late for this though.) Provide 3rd parties access to polls and other parts of the platform that are currently missing from the API.
3. Actually deliver on moderator tools that they’ve promised for 8 years.
4. Allow the porn subs to have API access again.
5. Kick out the hegetsus shit or at least let users block them like they used to be able to do.

I think they made their bed, and I’m fully okay with them sleeping in it.

Even if they roll back everything and I’d be the only one not sleeping in it with them, I’d pass.

I’ve noticed this change has also been good for my overall mental health.

Replace the CEO

Free api -> Rif works again.

My list of demands in short

I’m done there. I want to try this new adventure that I think has the potential for a healthier underpinning. I’m going to try and help it grow, and maybe the architecture will catch on and get us a little further away from all the corporate controlled entities that show their true colors when they think they can make more serious money.

They should fire Huffman, enter into an honest conversation with 3PA developers on what’s a reasonable price point and a reasonable timeline, back off on all the mod firing, and tell the users they were wrong and misguided. Even if they did all that, though, I don’t see myself going back (and my account was 8 years old with 247K karma, pretty much all from comments, so I was an active user).

I was an active user there for something like 16 or 17 years. I watched it grow up from when it was smaller than digg. It was my goto, a place where I felt at home, where there were great displays of cleverness and compassion. It has slowly decayed from its early greatness but pockets of it kept me going like tolkienfans and askhistorians. This latest thing feels like spez just took a shit on the entire concept of Reddit, declared war on it and I will never forgive him for that. He never understood the creation he participated in. You don’t own Reddit. You can only be its custodian. Reddit is not a place. Its a community. Now that community needs to be here, which is a good thing because clearly any corporate ownership of a community will only end badly.

In no particular order:

• Remove API changes
• Remove u/Spez and his lovely executive board
• Make the site a non-profit project without ads, since most of the work is done by volunteers anyway

Oh, and for fucks sake: Remove that shit stain that is the official app from the universe.