Personally, I just feel bad for Apollo’s creator and mods (the good ones) who spent so much time carefully taking care of a community they love, so in a sense I wish Reddit would come to their senses and axe that fucker CEO and revert to reasonable API changes. But it’s mostly wishful thinking. Besides, now I would feel bad if Reddit managed to go back to being good because that would mean that this aswesome Lemmy thinghy would go back into the shadows, while it deserves so much attention imho.
I think they’ve painted themselves into a corner and can’t back down now. Backing down would show that they can’t manage the damn site and no one would seriously consider investing in an unstable platform. So they have to either strongman it or wait it out. I genuinely want people to just move off of it altogether, whether or not spez agrees to some sort of compromise. There was so much awfulness coming from spez last week, that the API debacle feels like it was eons ago. There’s a strong argument to be made about loss of trust in management: spez talking shit about mods that do the heavy lifting for free, admins lying to anyone and everyone just to get what they want, forcing mods out, pitting people against each other, spez’s sole goal of profiting from “the data” and yapping about the damn IPO. It’s so awful any way you look at it.
Personally, I just feel bad for Apollo’s creator and mods (the good ones) who spent so much time carefully taking care of a community they love, so in a sense I wish Reddit would come to their senses and axe that fucker CEO and revert to reasonable API changes. But it’s mostly wishful thinking. Besides, now I would feel bad if Reddit managed to go back to being good because that would mean that this aswesome Lemmy thinghy would go back into the shadows, while it deserves so much attention imho.
I hear what youre saying, and I do agree, but keep in mind that the developer of Apollo has definitely come out well in all of this.
He has made millions from Apollo. Yes plural. Yes in USD.
I’m not saying he isn’t deserving of his success, I just want you to be aware that he is definitely well off.
I think they’ve painted themselves into a corner and can’t back down now. Backing down would show that they can’t manage the damn site and no one would seriously consider investing in an unstable platform. So they have to either strongman it or wait it out. I genuinely want people to just move off of it altogether, whether or not spez agrees to some sort of compromise. There was so much awfulness coming from spez last week, that the API debacle feels like it was eons ago. There’s a strong argument to be made about loss of trust in management: spez talking shit about mods that do the heavy lifting for free, admins lying to anyone and everyone just to get what they want, forcing mods out, pitting people against each other, spez’s sole goal of profiting from “the data” and yapping about the damn IPO. It’s so awful any way you look at it.