Welcome! I’m super stoked to be here, too. And each day this community seems to grow stronger.
I agree that reddit’s future looks weak. The API change was horrible. Spez’s approach to the whole thing was even worse: condescending, disingenuous, and hostile.
And the more I think about it, the less I see any hope for reddit as a place I want to spend time. This isn’t just one bad episode. Once the company goes public, there’s going to be more shit like this. The site will slowly gut itself for perceived short-term gains, over and over again.
No thanks.
I really don’t know. I definitely recall Spez saying it’s safe. But it seems like we’d be wise to not trust a word he says.