I’m not sure if this is new, but when I clicked on the /r/pics protest post link from the frontpage here, I was redirected to this: https://old.reddit.com/premium
I’m not sure if this is well-known or not that they’re pushing it now, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it, especially on old.reddit.
Same here. If they’d have just framed it differently and put the onus of paying for api access on the users (at a modest fee), almost none of the backlash would have happened.
Then I’d still be oblivious.
I prefer the world the way it was before all the consolidation. I like the ideals of the fediverse and want it to succeed.
I prefer the world the way it was before all the consolidation. I like the ideals of the fediverse and want it to succeed.
Exactly, this is better overall I think, at least when it comes to the health of the internet as a whole.
Same here.
I remember when individual website forums were the absolute best way to find answers and connect with people of like-minded interests. The system wasn’t perfect but it at least meant that problems from one forum/community would not spill over into another.
Reddit then came along and basically became the forum of forums and replaced a lot of those communities. Having all those communities in a single place did have some benefits. One for example is that it allowed obscure communities to form by the single fact that there were so many communities all gathered in a single place. Unfortunately we all know what happened there.
I’m really hoping the fediverse suceeds and helps us retain a lot of the benefit of a place like Reddit while at the same time shielding the community from a single entity/person exerting control over everything.
I have seen the same issiue with individual, niche forums: going down because of one person. It was just a matter of time for that to happen with a bigger site.