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Also a good point. Maybe archive previous reddit content in multiple places, like the internet archive as well as on the fediverse. Interesting thought..

Remember though that in this process, you are helping reddit make money. Folks using google to find those answers on reddit will view it on reddit and feed their ads traffic.

If you can accept that, then i'm cool with it too. After all, it is your content.

But a lot of us, we still want to have this archive up. Just not on reddit itself. Some folks archive the reddit posts on the internet archive or ghost archive. So google searches will still find the answer, but will direct folks to some other side and reddit won't get the views.

This is exactly what I did. I saved a copy of all my content (well PDS nuked some of it and didn't save it properly, but I got what's left).

I used automated tools but I left a message on how to reach out to me at my new hangout on each one. I think it shouldn't be too hard to find the answer from there - and if it is, well hey, I'm open to answering a question or a few.

My content will be made available again, just not on reddit. reddit won't get to profit from ads using my content. Folks on reddit will have to come here (or find me elsewhere) to get that info - so i'll slowly redirect em from reddit to places like the fediverse.

My comment was even longer and wordier than yours. Feel free to make it more concise - but in your place I would just use what you've written without any further revision.

OP seems to be leaning towards the "bad financials" theory on why reddit is being so out of touch - like they literally can't afford it.

But it still doesn't explain the drastic change in attitude from spez and friends. The above (assuming that it's even true) isn't an excuse for admins making up crazy rules about NSFW or kicking off entire mod teams without notice or warning, or randomly permabanning mods and regular users for no apparent reason.

Exactly. All that had to be said after the protests was one of three things:

1. You the community have been heard, and we will try harder to work with third party apps so they can continue while we purse profitability before the deadline is up.

2. You the community have been heard, and we will delay by x months to give everyone a better, and more fair chance of adjusting.

3. We have heard you. Unfortunately it is not possible, and here are the transparencies about our finances to explain why. (No more would have to be given than what would be filed for a public company anyways. Doesn't seem an unreasonable ask for a company actively trying to IPO.)

Instead, he went with the all-out-war option. There's no negotiating with this company.

It was not just this one time or one interview. spez lied about the Apollo dev and tried to drag his name in the mud, forcing the dev's hand and making him feel compelled to release recordings to clear his own name.

Before the numbers for the API pricing were announced, the devs and the mods who had a direct line with the admins all agreed that reddit was at least being highly professional about things.

Notice how no one is saying that anymore? Doesn't that tell you something?

We shouldn't help reddit when all we get in return is contempt from a Musk-wannabe. In fact, you want us to give up our best leverage here - take away the user generated content and the hard work of the mods to keep that content high quality, and there's nothing for reddit to offer to advertisers.

With a guy like this in charge, reddit probably is lost anyways. (Not that reddit would die right away necessarily, myspace is still around after all.) But more on how the trust with the mods and the users of subs is now broken. They will never be the same again. So let's go and build something better here, where we don't have to deal with this kind of crud.

This can only happen in two cases. The fediverse has many instances and thus can survive a single instance going mad, for lack of a better term. The guy behind Tildes seems like a nice enough fella, so he'd fit the other mold - benevolent dictator. I know less about Squables but assume for the same of argument it's the same thing.

Reddit's CEO has shown that he's a dictator, but not the benevolent kind. So why does he and his company deserve anymore help from us? Why not put our efforts into places where we will be treated and respected better.

I think that's it, really. This only works if we have both a benevolent CEO of Reddit and a profitable Reddit. I don't need to repeat what others have already quoted and linked to in this article, but I think at this point it is crystal clear - spaz has shown his true colours and he is not benevolent. Helping Reddit make bank at this point would only enrich a guy who seems to hate his user's guts. We'd not get a single thing in return for our efforts, so why bother? That's better spend on the fediverse.

Edit: TBH I get the impression that spez would totally kill off Reddit if he thought he could get a big enough payday.

Ah, well, this is coming from the cracking and piracy subs. I mean we're talking about the folks who keep modifying Alien Blue so it'll continue to work with modern Reddit on a modern smartphone.

Not sure what they have planned for dealing with NSFW.

Hey, thanks for the info regardless. Maybe it'll help someone else out still. Have hope!

Good on that mod for standing up to reddit! An inspiration to us all.