One reason for that might be that the users who do care and support(ed) the black-out are not back on Reddit. At least fewer of them than of the users that don't give a damn.
Yes, I had the same feeling reading some comments on one of the community I browse. It even made me think about some arguments I had outside of reddit, about politics especially privacy matters, where some people where in the same cynicism state of mind, saying politician are in power anyway and we cannot do anything and they have nothing to hide anyway, etc.
Honestly subs should offer alternative places other than reddit
@possiblylinux127 @lemmyworld They probably would but are in fear of getting banned or muted or worse. I think people don't care anymore and post to lemmy and other instances
Time will tell, but maybe this will create the great growth of Reddit alts whatever they may be.
People who mention the Broken Stair usually get accused of Rocking the Boat by people who don't want to do anything about the Broken Stair. This is always the way.
It doesn't mean the Broken Stair doesn't need to be replaced.
I’ve noticed some of this in non-reddit forums, where we’ve discussed the situation at some length. I agree; it’s quite disconcerting.
Some people have even made it clear that they’re incensed at Christian Selig, like the situation is somehow his fault, and they consider him to be a gold digger who is just profiting off of the platform that Reddit generously provided, and they even go so far as to suggest that Selig needs to “pay his dues!!!11!!1” Even a well-reasoned argument (including a full explanation of the actual math) was ineffective at convincing them that maybe they don’t quite grok the situation… one person actually stated bluntly that he doesn’t even care; he basically just wants his subreddits back.
The mindset behind these kinds of comments just utterly baffles me. (shrug)
That is what shocked me the most. They are going out of their way to make him look like a gold digger who apparently made a fortune. This is insanity. What’s more is that they think that the charges are good business for app devs to pay up. The issue is that if the apps are gone, no one is paying Reddit anymore. It’s odd how they skim over that part.
Well... I think your conclusion is absolutely right, but it's actually more complicated than that.
Executive summary of the math from the conversation to which I alluded: If all things went absolutely perfectly for Selig, he couldn't possibly have made more than about $450K per year, (gross) at the peak of Apollo's popularity. The app was around for less than six years. Therefore, excluding expenses, his maximum theoretical gross income was still somewhere short of about $2.5 million. (There was a lot of math stuff that led to that figure.)
Reddit is demanding fees essentially equivalent to seven times that figure... per year.
That math doesn't add up -- unless you assume that those existing third-party devs aren't the target audience at all, for that proposed fee structure. At no point did Reddit ever think that these small time devs were going to be able to cough up those exorbitant fees; the target audience is and always has been large language models.
The thing is, I don't actually think there is much chance that the LLMs are going to be any more likely to accept the new fee structure than those third party add on developers. Thus, as you've stated, there will ultimately be no payday for Reddit.
I think for most it was just a feel-good move, like carbon offsetting or belittling people for using plastic straws, once the idea of getting serious about it was put on the table, suddenly people started rationalizing the abandonment of any "efforts" they made.
I don't think anyone changed their minds aside from maybe a few honest and naive folks (I might be one, didn't think twice about how pointless it was to promise I'd be back until I saw a video from Luis Rossman slapping me with reality, though I was planning on an indefinite blackout because that's what I thought the plan .)
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