Seems very coincidental that he started some twitter beef with Greta Thunberg right before he was arrested.
Wouldn't be surprised if he got tipped off that GRETA (The Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings) were building a case against him, then being the weapons-grade moron that he is, assumed they meant Greta Thunberg.
I've been a lot more active on Beehaw over the past few days than on Reddit. Tried to get into Kbin but the servers have been remarkably unstable and I don't like the fact that you can only view 25 comments at once.
I think a lot of subreddits will fold. Your typical reddit moderator is hungry for power and having that power taken away from them is probably more terrifying to them than losing Apollo/RIF/BaconReader/Sync/Relay.
I don't think it's wrong for Spez to charge for API access, but the rates he's vowing to charge are excessive and clearly designed to nuke third-party apps from their ecosystem.
As for how I'd make money from Reddit in his shoes, I'd:
Completely understand why you're doing this. I think you want this place to be more like an alternative to Tildes that doesn't descend into rampant shitposting, and that's completely understandable.
It's a good thing I made an account on lemmy.world too, so I won't fully miss out on the fediverse at large. Only reason I did was because I originally thought my app to join Beehaw was rejected (in actuality, I just didn't get the sign-up email, couldn't be arsed to check my spam folder and didn't even try to login for a month.)
Not that great.
Starting a new (internal) role tomorrow which got me a £4k payrise and is going to set me on a path to chartered accountancy, which is great when just three months ago my employer announced plans to lay off my whole department and outsource hundreds of jobs to India. After escaping redundancy and purchase ledger (I have been working in PL jobs for the past three years and desperately wanted an out), I should be feeling jubilant.
If anything I feel the opposite.
My sadness/frustration comes from the fact that my love life has all but flatlined. I grow sick of trying to use Tinder, Bumble, Okcupid, Hinge and pretty much any other dating app to exist and getting zero matches from legitimate people. I grow sick of being given false platitudes about how I'll find someone eventually, when I just know that I'm going to go through my thirties still a virgin.
Part of me seriously worries about success, that I'll soon each the point where I could command a high five figure, possibly a six figure salary, then suddenly have women flock to me not out of admiration but out of wanting my money.
To be fair, he isn't wrong.
I cannot see another blackout happening. I think a sizeable chunk of Reddit's moderators would go back if it otherwise meant losing power and influence on one of the largest social media sites.
Of course a lengthier or indefinite blackout of most of Reddit's communities would cause major disruption.
The News and Worldnews subreddits prove there are people still willing to lick Spez's boots.
As somebody who isn't even a Star Trek fan, I still think a flood of trekkies is infinitely cooler than a flood of white supremacists which have killed similar platforms.
They could easily do that by:
Beehaw is getting hammered with traffic and is really slow today. I wonder if there's been a mass exodus to Lemmy...
It's a damn necessity if you want to avoid a situation like Mastodon had with Gab joining the fediverse.
Imagine the absolute shitshow if a white-supremacist Reddit clone like Poal suddenly integrated their site with Lemmy...
r/TrueOffMyChest. Not the original OMC sub which has been commandeered by leftists and where you'll be banned just for participating in a subreddit their draconian mod team disagree with. There's a reason why TrueOMC has almost reached the same subscriber count as its predecessor, because it's not a partisan hellhole.
Something like that would be great on Lemmy.
Other than that... NSFW subreddits.
Apparently the head mod of /r/Tumblr has already been forcibly demodded. A bit weird that Tumblr of all places has been the starting point.