In my case? Nothing. They thoroughly burned that bridge. They would have to rebuild it, and merely returning to the status quo after showing their hand isn’t enough.

I think everyone reading this from kbin or lemmy left out of principle, so they should also stay away from reddit out of principle.

Reddit has clearly shown their priorities. If they change the policies now, they only do it for the money, not for the users.

oh that boat has so sailed.

Reddit has been so transparently awful in handling this whole situation that I wouldn’t go back. I can only imagine something similar would happen again not too far in the future anyway, regardless if they were to reverse their decision with the API.

Imagine if your partner is abusive as fuck and took advantage of you for years, and you managed to go away from them, then they stop being abusive and say they won’t be like that again, How can you be sure that they’ll stay that way? What keeps them from acting like a total piece of shit again?

Bridges got burned. Not possible for myself to go back at this point.

I don’t see that a reversal at this point would be any different to Twitter suddenly becoming usable again. The damage has already been done, it can’t be reversed. Even with a pinky swear that Reddit will never pull this shit again, the trust is gone. Just like with Twitter - Elon could f*** off to Mars tomorrow, but the next person to step in and run Twitter could be just as bad, or worse. And both companies can implement any changes they like at any time with zero worry about what happens to the users. Thus - it’s the wake-up call we all needed, that someone else’s platform is really someone else’s platform - regardless of how long we have had a home there. It’s time for own platform, a community run platform.

Can Reddit also un-slander the 3pa devs?

I want to avoid enshitification, and enshitification is more or less the ultimate goal of those who own reddit. This isn’t the first time they’ve tried to extract value from the site with utter disregard for users and moderators. If they didn’t get their way this time, they’ll just try again later. Perhaps more politely or more slowly, but the writing is on the wall. Has been for a while.

Lmao even if it weren’t just no out of principle, after spez’s comments about how Twitter under Elon is a model for Reddit to look to - why would I waste an ounce of energy on such a platform?

They could abandon their plans, apologize and then give everyone a cute puppy as a sorry, and I still wouldn’t go back. Spez and his group of admins have shown their true colors, and it’s because of them that I refuse to ever rejoin. Their actions this past week have been downright dictatorial, engaging in doublethink, hyperbole and creating rules when it benefits them despite no prior communication with the communities they’ve steamrolled by force.

As someone who recently had a 12 year old account, reddit and Spez can go fuck themselves.

After Steve’s behavior and treatment of the mods and developers, I wouldn’t go back if they paid me. Even in the best case scenarios, they can’t undo the damage that’s already been done.

The damage is done. The administration at Reddit has shown they will do whatever it takes to stamp out dissent… except for actually listen to the users.

I’ll live here, but I might poke into Reddit for the more obscure communities that can’t really survive a migration. Reddit knows what it wants and even if it fails this time, they’ll get sly with it and push more and more until they’re satisfied.

The biggest news is going to make it over here at this point anyway.