Got a mod message on reddit today linking to an updated article stating they lifted the free API calls from 60 to 100 queries per minute, allowing almost all bots needed for moderation to continue function and if they exceeded 100queries/minute the bot itself needs to be fixed. Seems reasonable.
I only have a meaningless empty subreddit, but since I’m the mod of that, I get those notifications.
Overall, I’m really unsure how things will continue now. Lemmyverse seems to be the solution to a core problem of reddit, but it’s a learning curve.
IMHO the more - for the lack of better words - competent internet users will tend to stay on lemmy for discussions and use reddit as the cheap content bucket that it has mostly become by today. Meanwhile, the less competent ones will stay on reddit. Therefore, reposts and bot-aggregation will increase by a lot within the next months on reddit, turning it into what is basically 9gag today eventually, but with porn on it until that’s not fine there either at some point.
I also expect quite the learning curve for Lemmyverse itself, as federations scaling up will cause segmentations. There will be instances for mostly techs, mostly memes, mostly conspiracy theorists and I’m pretty sure even extreme-right-wing people. And other instances will start blocking others for good reasons. However, that will only happen if people stay with Fediverses in general… we might be away from that for another few years maybe.
Except if reddit and probably twitter go belly-up for some unexpected reason within the next few months due to missmanagement or something, while super-simple guides for getting started as a user with lemmy get popular on youtube at the same time or something. We’ll see. Exciting times we live in…
Can someone explain to me what u/spez does?
Steve Huffman, aka /u/spez, is the CEO of Reddit. He is responsible for the introduction of prohibitively high costs for using the Reddit API, which is required to access Reddit’s data as a third party app developer. The Apollo developer (the most popular reddit app on iOS) would have to pay 20 million per year for using the Reddit API, which is of course impossible. That’s the reason why several third party apps are going to end their service at the end of June. This caused extreme outrage, a basically Reddit wide protest by the mods where more than 7000 subreddits went “dark” (meaning they either went private or disabled theoption to make new posts).
This will probably kill reddit, as no one is willing to use their incredibly shitty official app. The official app has an abysmal UI and UX and causes lots of mobile data usage, which indicates that lots of personal data is being gathered by it. There are also no mod tools, which are basically indispensable for doing your work as a mod. He basically fucked over the people who carry reddit: The mods and power users.
Spez also lied and defamed the Apollo dev, who recorded all his calls he had with Reddit.
It’s a complete shit show.
Thank you for your summary. It helped me!
and what has he done to make the API disaster worse?
sucks
Do you know about the whole API situation or do you mean what he did now?
I’m not OP, but what did he do now?
Wait what? What else did he do?
Wait, did something ELSE happen?
I read he said the whole Reddit Blackout will just blow over in a few days. It feels like he has a complete disconnect with the community… even the investors are unhappy. What I don’t understand is why there isn’t a vote to get him out?
It’s not a democracy. Unless his bosses fire him or he leaves there’s nothing you can do directly.
They may mean a vote by the board of directors.
May be
I feel awful for being so curious. It’s like slowing down just so you can watch an accident on the other side of the road. I really shouldn’t.
That’s pretty accurate actually lmao
Is it something specific you are referring to?
