I don't really use reddit a ton anymore but tbh I don't think I'll be staying here either.

I hated the reddit redesign on desktop because it did some annoying things like waste a ton of space, and sadly Lemmy on desktop has similar usability issues to new.reddit in that regard. I could fix it with userstyles (like I could new reddit), but I'd much rather not have to. These are things that can be fixed dev-side too, but until that happens I really just don't like using the default lemmy experience.

Also I use iOS and the iOS app selection for Lemmy is severely lacking, the app that does exist (Mlem) does not have great usability imo

Before the move some posts got thousands of up votes. After the move the upvotes are in the low double digits. Most don't care, that's why they didn't come over

This website is nothing when you look at the massive amount of data and information that is being held at ransom and only affects the community because of this protest.

Reddit is hopeless as long as spez is in the seat,

Here to stay, personally. Reddit seemed to mostly be a cesspool of negativity so it was never fun to engage. I think there is some information on the subreddit that might be useful, but the majority of information can be found on the forums or wiki. I can agree that read only would be a decent compromise

I only wish they made the threads at least a read-only permission

As a returning player Reddit threads/comments are the ones that helped me most cause most YT vid sucks due to intros and long vids that could be answered shortly. I was sad when I saved some threads that I was reading before the blackout and I cant read the guides and search for answers again so pretty much stopped doing things towards my goals for now

I'm cool with staying here. It's an adjustment, but I feel it's worthwhile since I'm pretty sure Reddit isn't gonna budge.

It's a complete waste of time. I signed up just to complain about it. I program / integrate API's for a living. There's tonnes of websites that don't have free api access. Reddit isn't obligated to provide any API, and the fact it's taking it away isn't a good enough reason for all these mods to throw their toys out of the cot. Furthermore, it's not the mods that will suffer for their decisions because they still have access to these private subreddits, it's the users - most of whom have nothing to do with third party reddit apps or reddit apis and couldn't care less.

Users who access reddit through a third party free API app make $0 for reddit. The big one being apollo, which likely would have been costing reddit a shit tonne in server fees and upkeep. So Reddit's decision to change their API makes complete sense... Imagine if someone moved into your house, ate your food, paid no rent and then when you kicked them out people started protesting you for doing so. Whether users don't visit reddit or they visit it through a third party app - the outcome for reddit is the same. $0 - great fuck all. That's why these subreddits going private are going to do jack shit.

And to those users who think you care because you've been told you should (and because you love a good protest) ask yourself how this REALLY effects you. If you use a third party app, you'll instead have to use a slightly different looking one. And BONUS you'll be supporting the company that has actually made all those subreddits possible. I understand this is going to get downvoted to shit (if it can, idk how this stupid site works) because people THINK they care at the moment. But literally give it 2 weeks, everybody will realize the changes don't mean shit to them personally, and they'll stop giving a fuck.

My last complaint is just how shortsighted / selfish this is on the part of the people incharge here. Nobody is here for you. Nobody is here for your opinions on how reddit should run it's business. Nobody gives 2 shits about how you feel the community should come together. We care about discussing shit with a large amount of actual war frame players, and then finding that information at a later date. And by doing this protest you're removing both of those conditions, no large amount of players, no archive of knowledge. The next warframe subreddit that gains ANY traction is where 95% of players are going to go and you'll be left here with some opinions that nobody cares about.