I had reddit premium although I used a third party app. I wanted to support the platform. I spent so much time on it and really liked the way reddit worked.. being centered around communities and giving them the power to have their own rules.
I canceled my subscription a week ago and will not go back. Needless to say, this isn't a company I want to have any of my money.
At this point it's just one power move following the other. Mods don't have much left to loose, so who gives anymore. Spez on the other hand is a CEO with the conflict management skills of a 4 year old.
Fully agree.
Also, I saw several subs who asked their members if they should join the blackout, so it's not really fair to say mod decided top down.
That post by the mods on r/pics is hilarious.
It is! Hello fellow kbinian!
Any idea how many users we have?
Cheese was already taken 😭
Right?! Can you believe there were people who used reddit for less than an hour a day?!! 🙂
Nooo, don't listen! It's a trap!! 🙂
I agree it's somewhat complex for the average user, but I 'm questioning whether they really need to understand. I subscribed to kbin, started using it like reddit. Federation is now enabled, too, but if I hadn't seen a post about it, I wouldn't even have noticed. The cool thing is you don't need to care where the content is if you don't want to, you still can enjoy the platform ang get a lot out of it.
Mods spent countless hours on building those communities. They still care too much to just leave. There's still some hope left I guess.