If Reddit were to revert it’s changes to 3rd party apps would you stay on Lemmy or move back to Reddit?
People would go back.
Trust is the hardest thing to reclaim once lost, and this isn’t the first break. Big social is having problems, it’s the natural course of things.
Reddit is absolutely, 100% certainly not going to step back on these change. They’ve made up their mind long ago.
But just for the hypothetical: I think they lost a LOT of trust with the two most essential parts of the community - users and mods. Also the company (or rather, its CEO) may have taken significant image damage due to the “AMA” spez did.
I think business will go on as usual, but the decline will be more and more noticable over time. It will go the way of Digg. Unless of course reddit decides to hire moderation themselves. But we all know they probably wont want do do that. The course seems set to selling the data they have already accumulated.
I fully support all the reasons for ditching Reddit altogether, but if I can’t use Apollo, I’ll only ever use it on desktop, and even then just to look stuff up via Google.
Installed Mlem and have committed to making this place a good one.
I’m not going back, epescially since Apollo will be shutting down. I’m looking forward to what the dev can do with the Mlem iOS app, and I’m very interested in the community that is being built here.
