Shocked Pikachu face meme.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
    187·
    11 months ago

    Love how they bellyache about the mods not doing a good enough job when they spent the final weeks of the June protest harassing the existing mods and and basically dismissing and disrespecting all the work we were doing for the past decade. They just expected things to go back to business as usual and the mods should just shut up and continue doing unpaid janitorial duties for the benefit of spez out of sheer momentum I guess? The scale of their entitlement is unreal.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      78·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, that was part of the reason I decided to leave. I mean, it wasn’t the only reason by far, but just another item to snowball into the “fuck this platform” that pushed me to leave.

      The number of people that actively told me I was dumb, abusing power, and my moderating could be done by anyone was crazy.

      Then they bitched about the moderation quality going down when 50% of the moderation actions walked out the door.

  • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    11 months ago

    Piracy mods are few of the mods with a backbone that actually left reddit because of all the bullshit.

    • anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      551·
      11 months ago

      They probably realized the same skillset that set up their *arr config could be used to host a lemmy instance

    • agitatedpotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      11 months ago

      A lot of the sports sub mods I frequent put up a hard fight and many just walked away. The change in those communities has been noticable. Especially since they can no longer use API to import clips as they happen, engagement and content is way down. There used to be highlights for days, just automatically.

  • mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    501·
    11 months ago

    I like it here on Lemme. I feel pretty comfy. And most of you here are tech savvy. And if not, at least you have some level of basic true understanding of how technology works., Unlike those impostor syndrome redditors. And I suppose it’s a plus that corporations don’t hunt us down for discussing piracy.

  • hangonasecond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    341·
    11 months ago

    See, you know Reddit is packed with bots when that shitty repost has 6000 upvotes and “does this sub don’t have mods” has 129.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      182·
      11 months ago

      See, you know Reddit is packed with bots when that shitty repost has 6000 upvotes

      This shitty re-repost on Lemmy has 1020 upvotes.

      “does this sub don’t have mods” has 129.

      Quoting the poet Bill Foster: “Well, maybe if you wrote it in fucking English, I could fucking understand it.”

  • beebarfbadger@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    11 months ago

    “Yeah, well, but having no mods is actually great, we don’t even need no mods and these grapes are too sour anyway.” - not an alt account of spez at all

  • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
    151·
    11 months ago

    That sub and this community has always been like that.

    • 7u5k3n@lemmy.worldEnglish
      351·
      11 months ago

      Tldr They started charging 3rd party apps to use their API. The API that they had been using for ages and ages. They were shady about the timeline and their communication to devs was awful. So most 3rd party apps decided to end support as opposed to paying reddit.

      Basically they wanted to make sure all users were seeing ads before their IPO.

      I was a relay for reddit guy for ~10 years. Once the subscription update hit I uninstalled and moved to boost for lemmy.

      • Aurix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        46·
        11 months ago

        Not quite correct. They didn’t start charging for API usage. They banned it and pretended it could be paid for with completely absurd prices nobody could reasonably afford.

        • 7u5k3n@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          11 months ago

          Ah I was just commenting back on how the relay for reddit deal went… that’s even shittier of them.

          I’m not surprised at all.

          • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
            8·
            11 months ago

            Yeah, the prices were around +20€ for normal usage, for each user a month. It was a per call cost and the devs would have to eat it if they didn’t charge the users, so many rightfully jumped ship. Who in their right minds would pay more than 20 euros to fucking access reddit on their phone, per month? Yeah right, fk you too.

      • Falcon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        11 months ago

        Further TL;DR

        In preparation for an IPO:

        Reddit: you must now only use our app to prop up our add revenue. No third party apps (unless you pay us handsomely)

        Everyone: no thanks, just make our own alternative

    • vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      11 months ago

      Reddit used to have a free and open API. This allowed 3rd parties to develop apps / interfaces for the site. These apps helped everything from making the site usable for some with accessibility issues to blocking ads to providing a customized interface to tons of other things.

      Generally this was done by taking the API feed and re-engineering it to allow the desired presentation.

      In a move to make the company more attractive to investors before going public, Reddit changed that API to a paid model. This meant any developer of those 3rd party apps would now have to pay a not insignificant in most cases fee to continue their access to Reddit. As such, most apps closed down and a very small portion of us long time Redditors migrated to Lemmy/ the fediverse.