i’ve been weaning off :reddit-logo: ever since they banned the chapo sub and this place started coming together. i mostly look at picture subs like corgis and other lighthearted funny stuff. i never look at it on a desktop. only ever on my phone, and only using RIF because rif is easy, tidy and not shit from a butt like their in-house interfaces. i’m not a mod or a power user, and those people are all saying the 3rd party apps are vital for what they do in service to their communities.

there is no chance i continue using it after RIF goes offline at the end of the month, and probably not after the 12th when it seems like every sub i follow has announced they are going dark until reddit corrects this.

i know it’s naive to think an online platform of this size can fail, but it does happen and when it does it’s in stages, like an old tree entering a mortality spiral. this won’t kill reddit, but i think this is going to be a very significant “shit the bed and roll around in it” moment in the timeline of the platform.

in the most casual/non-tech, highly specific, goofy little time wasting subs of people showing cats making airplane ears, people were already discussing the organizing a move to lemmy so they have something to do on the “go dark” date. when i saw that in multiple casual places earlier today, it gave me the impression this is significant.

also, it would be hilarious if shitty spez fucked up so bad that the investors sued him and the corporate entity imploded like a dying neutron star. a down round. a funding clawback. a little fraud indictment, as a treat.