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They can pitch a fit and protest all they want, but the only real way to get traction is to show there is a viable alternative. Want to renegotiate your Oracle license fees? Run a credible fraction of your enterprise on PostgreSQL. Want to get WotC to stop screwing 3rd party publishers with a new license? Start playing pathfinder. These are only two examples that I've experienced. Twitter will never improve as long as people keep using it. If reddit API users (3rd party apps) shift 5 to 20 % of use to Lemmy, you'll see API pricing drop incredibly fast.
Such a blackout could help accomplish that goal though.
The blackout must be accompanied from a viable alternative easily presented. I just learned about lemmy and I’m trying to see if I can have a place here. I don’t plan on leaving Reddit forever but you never know, and this api fiasco has at least shown me alternatives I never knew existed.
Lemmy is good, it's still rough around the edges but still useable, its not bad at all, the influx of people overload the servers tho, but it will certainly improve, and the current app (Jerboa for Android) is not as good as the popular Reddit clients for the moment, but it's definitely better than the Reddit official app.
I kind of hope redreader either switches to lemmy or helps improve Jerboa.
/u/whupazz has RedReader connecting to Lemmy via a api translation gateway he is building: https://imgur.com/a/IF5HYGz
Looks promising, i hope more clients could work with this.
I've seen that the redreader dev considers it.