I don’t think it was unintended in the sense that the admins didn’t expect these consequences. At least to me, on their posts they seem very aware that what they’re doing is very damaging, but they were stuck with choosing between the lesser of two evils, and they choose what was going to keep them more sane for now.

!devshowerthoughts (community idea?)

Reddit, maybe you have a pretty shitty app?

Oh, they know. They just don’t care.

I’m sorry but this is the wrong attitude. His concerns are legitimate, even if somewhat poorly expressed, and they are just some among many. If Lemmy and the fediverse at large wants to grow and see wider adoption, there needs to be a way to tackle these issues, or be more transparent as to why they won’t be tackled in the near future, or never.

For what it’s worth, I am going to stick around despite the issues, because I see there’s a drive to improve and so I expect Lemmy and other fediverse platforms to get better with time, while I expect reddit to keep getting more and more worse with time, and I’m done taking that abuse.

Thanks for the info. I heard about kbin in the past couple days, and had yet to see how it looked like.

Visually, I like it a little bit more than the currently available lemmy themes. Looks a bit like a “modern” old.reddit, albeit also suffering from a little blankspaceitis. And the fact it’s written in PHP… well… 😒. But since it can talk to Lemmy, it doesn’t really matter, I guess.

It seems to be hit and miss at the moment. It’s something I’ve asked on beehaw support in this comment. Also, as the other user mentioned, those links (both yours and the ones I’ve used as examples in my comment) are broken in Jerboa, although they work on the web app.

More importantly, Tildes is invite-only at the moment (for signups)

It’s not pedantic. There IS a difference, and it’s relevant in this case.

Right? There’s no way in which this doesn’t end poorly for them. Nevermind that they started this debacle by shooting themselves in the foot, they just keep gleefully shooting it even more, it’s insane. Either the investor money is such a huge pressure that they don’t care, or they just completely lost touch with reality. Or both.

I’m gonna grab some popcorn tomorrow, this will be a cool friday night tragic comedy to watch.

I’ve said it (with a different wording) on some post on reddit, I’m saying it again here: I want history to repeat itself. Not because I have a sadistic need to see reddit fail, but because this will ultimately be better for the users.

All of these protests are a nice sentiment, but I can’t help but think the take I’ve read from some people is right: this is all a “door in the face” technique from Reddit to get people to accept a more reasonable compromise on pricing that they were going for all along, but without taking as much of a PR hit. So people will be relatively happy, and meanwhile reddit will have squeezed redditors just a little more, as they have been doing little by little in the last years. It’s a boiling frog scenario.

So this protest may well “reverse” this specific situation, but it won’t reverse the general trend on governance on Reddit that has been slowly going on for a few years already, mostly around the time that Victoria got canned.

So, to that end, I really want to stop using reddit regardless of the outcome of this debacle. Lemmy seems promising, although it does have its own set of problems. But it’s still on its infancy, I’m sure it’ll grow and at least some of these problems will be fixed.