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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2 (self.technology)

submitted 1 year ago by alyaza to c/technology

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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] poohbear@toons.zone 176 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Yeah, don't hold your breath for a Lemmy/kbin port of Apollo:

The amount of work it would take to port all the API endpoints over to Lemmy or Kbin or something, that would be a gargantuan amount of work that I’m not sure I have the capacity for. And then just the complexity of making it work. Long term, it’s a big question mark for me that, at this stage, I’m not sure I’m totally interested in pursuing. But it’s also one of those things where I completely wish it the best. And if something that was decentralized kind of became the norm, I think that would definitely be a win for everybody.

[–] ImpeccableMithril 95 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great interview from Christian there, it really is so frustrating that Reddit is and has been so hostile towards him. :(

[–] spoonful 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you imagine the dumbasses at Reddit corporate thinking they could turn him into a villain? lol

The leadership is so incredibly dumb that it almost feels like sabotage.

[–] LemmyAtem 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Honestly, it was probably intentional. People shit on spez (rightfully) but he's doing his job perfectly. He's looking like an incompetent man child, and finger pointing at a third party using an obviously and probably intentionally weak narrative. He's put all the focus on himself and how stupid he looks. He's a punching bag, and in the mean time everyone at the corporate level that actually enacted these changes and is forcing this platform shift is remaining a) anonymous and b) out of the crosshairs.

[–] poohbear@toons.zone 15 points 1 year ago

I disagree that the punching bag strategy is effective - even looking beyond the obvious example w/ knock-on effects Elon has done from Twitter -> Tesla, you've got Adam Neumann w/ WeWork, Travis Kalanick w/ Uber, etc. who've taken similar personality deflection strategies - it only caused more long-term harm than good for both medium-term operations and brand reputation.

It's not a sustainable strategy and it's pretty cringy to see it happen from an investor perspective.

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[–] SomethingBurger 21 points 1 year ago

He should opensource it, then. Someone else will do it.

[–] setsneedtofeed 16 points 1 year ago

I’m pretty he just wants to go take a week long nap before answering any more questions.

[–] megaman1970 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Has anyone considered creating a bridging API interface for lemmy? Something that can translate between the lemmy and reddit API to make this easier?

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