I was going to suggest that maybe a large group of mods could stop moderating until changes are made. Because Reddit would have a hard time replacing all those mods quickly, I would've thought.

But then, are changes from Reddit desirable at this point? They've shown just how determined they are to make themselves richer at users' expense. The best thing is for Reddit to fail at this point, I think.

The bots have started.

This is the same as me. When I first read about this issue I thought "fair enough if Reddit wants to charge for their API, they have server costs to pay". And I didn't use 3rd party apps.

But their behaviour since then is what makes me not want to use Reddit anymore. They clearly have no intention to treat users or mods with respect. When users are voting to close their subreddits, Reddit is forcing those subreddits open, because Reddit only cares about lining their pockets. They're ignoring democracy when it suits them, despite the CEO saying he thinks Reddit should be more democratic (because he thought users would vote out the mods - the outcome he wants). He clearly never cared about democracy at all.

I mean sure, every business ultimately cares about money, but most businesses are smart enough to not treat their users like crap. Most businesses recognise that you have to respect your users to at least some degree if you want them to keep using your services. Reddit seems to have completely forgotten that.

Kbin's /m/soccer seems to have some activity: https://kbin.social/m/soccer

You should be able to read/write to it from Lemmy. Since you're on Lemmy.ml, this link should work: https://lemmy.ml/c/soccer@kbin.social

I just looked at Lemmygrad.ml. The rules on that site say "be respectful".

Your attached picture shows you are not respectful at all. You are supporting Putin, a dictator, who rigs elections, and who orders assassinations of political opponents (Navalny) and former Russian intelligence agents (Skripal, Litvinenko).

And of course Putin has in no way been respectful towards Ukraine. Invading Crimea in 2014, and the larger invasion in 2022.

So, you are being disrespectful towards Ukraine, and therefore you're not embodying the stated rules and values of your Lemmygrad server.

People use these systems as public spaces in which they can build communities

What really amused me is when Reddit sent messages to moderators saying things like "your subreddits are public spaces which users depend on, so you should open them".

When obviously what they mean is "your decision to close your subreddit is hurting our revenues, and if I don't keep up the payments on my BMW then I'll be forced to drive an old Honda, so either open the subreddit or we will forcibly do it ourselves".

Well, going outside is a good thing.

But if you still want online conversations then Kbin/Lemmy/Fediverse seems to be a viable ecosystem for that. Apparently Lemmy now has 370,000 users and Kbin has 43,000 users.

Well if only official Apple batteries will work, then that means Apple will jack up the price to something ridiculous, because they'll be the only option for a battery.

So hopefully third party batteries would work as well. I think third party batteries work in iPhones at the moment. So if we're able to install them much more easily then that would be very good.

Every country should do this. It's just a shame we have to wait until 2027 to see these phones.

I like it. But you'll have to do this manually for every post right?

I read someone saying that they tried to use automated tools to delete their posts (Shreddit I think) but Reddit was undoing the deletions, or something. So that's annoying if you have to change/delete every post manually.

I think it depends on the subreddit. Some subreddits I used were civil.

But now I don't want to use Reddit because of their hatred of their users. So I'm not using it for the moment.

Reddit: "we care about empathy"

Also Reddit: "we don't give a single fuck about our users' opinions and see them only as cattle to be milked for every advertising penny we can get"