edited to meet rule #3!
you left reddit because 3rd party apps were being killed off.
I left reddit because reddit sucks and I’ve been looking for an alternative for a long while now.
We are not the same.
i left because 3rd party apps were being killed off, I’m staying because this is a superior community
I left because the way they went about killing third party apps. Bad faith notification, shit communication, and slandering Christian.
Same, they could have easily bundled in third party apps as only something you can use with Reddit gold or something, and I would have happily done that.
I left because having that sort of person at the helm is just disconcerting.
People are not moving over here for convenience, it’s new young software with many flaws and missing features. I think most of us are just looking for a brighter future of social networks, one not dictated by a megacorporation and instead segmented more under our individual control. It’s impossible for this to match reddit in everything since that’s a company with thousands of employees and a 10 year headstart, but perfect shouldn’t be an enemy of good.
Also the Kbin web UI is already better than the official Reddit Mobile app or site, IMO.
It’s no Relay for Reddit, but I’m cautiously optimistic that in six months there will be a bunch of third party apps to choose from.
To me, I loved using Relay for Reddit, but them killing the 3rd party apps in itself wasn’t why I left. The whole situation just showed that Reddit doesn’t care about the community, they just care about profit, and they’ll happily shaft the users and prominent members of the community.
Even then, the way they went about getting that profit was so sleazy to me. I don’t like it, but I get a company needing to make a profit. But there’s ways of doing that where you can still put the community first.
