What users of Reddit are not realizing when they bash Apollo is that this is more than Apollo. It’s all third party apps. And this goes beyond third party Reddit clients. It’s also custom bots that “help” keep those subs clean-ish. People do not comprehend exactly what is impacted by API changes. The mods see it, people don’t.

I love watching liberals lose their shit over this. They're getting absolutely destroyed by their corporate overlords.

There's already news of Reddit execs forcing mods to reopen their subs, or else they'll replace the entire mod team with one that's willing to obey

The admins are banning mods and replacing them. All the subs will be back eventually. Libs will go back there once they either get bored over here or tired of having to actually see ideals that are different than theirs. It will become Facebook 2.0 and be even more filled with Westwood propaganda.

I do wonder if this could turn into a bigger problem for Reddit. I'm super new to Lemmy - I always liked how Reddit works from a ui/functionality perspective but I didn't like how the site was run or honestly even the people in this site. But I heard about Lemmy because of this and I think I like Lemmy better.

It just reminds me of what happened with Digg. Lots of small problems then a short series of bigger management fumbles made Digg go from the biggest link aggregator on the net to some obscure site nobody's heard of in like 5 years. I think it's a little harder for big sites like Reddit to fail nowadays but regardless - platforms like Lemmy show that Reddit doesn't really have anything special going for it besides a larger userbase.

It is kind of sad regarding other communities, espacially non-political like r/cptsd, r/pigeons (people loved my pigeons there) or r/geese. Its cool if you can show someone a picture of your pigeon and its getting a positive response.