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There are these:
The most popular of those seems to be the one on lemmy.world (accessible from Kbin at https://kbin.social/m/football@lemmy.world)
I was going to suggest that maybe a large group of mods could stop moderating until changes are made. Because Reddit would have a hard time replacing all those mods quickly, I would've thought.
But then, are changes from Reddit desirable at this point? They've shown just how determined they are to make themselves richer at users' expense. The best thing is for Reddit to fail at this point, I think.
The bots have started.
This is the same as me. When I first read about this issue I thought "fair enough if Reddit wants to charge for their API, they have server costs to pay". And I didn't use 3rd party apps.
But their behaviour since then is what makes me not want to use Reddit anymore. They clearly have no intention to treat users or mods with respect. When users are voting to close their subreddits, Reddit is forcing those subreddits open, because Reddit only cares about lining their pockets. They're ignoring democracy when it suits them, despite the CEO saying he thinks Reddit should be more democratic (because he thought users would vote out the mods - the outcome he wants). He clearly never cared about democracy at all.
I mean sure, every business ultimately cares about money, but most businesses are smart enough to not treat their users like crap. Most businesses recognise that you have to respect your users to at least some degree if you want them to keep using your services. Reddit seems to have completely forgotten that.
Kbin's /m/soccer seems to have some activity: https://kbin.social/m/soccer
You should be able to read/write to it from Lemmy. Since you're on Lemmy.ml, this link should work: https://lemmy.ml/c/soccer@kbin.social
Reddit: "we will make up whatever rules we want, whenever we want, so that we can keep funding the payments on our BMWs"
Normally, companies try and implement changes in their product in a diplomatic way, but I guess Reddit never got that memo.
The real Donald Trump would probably stop supplying aid to Ukraine though, and thus force Ukraine to accept the loss of some of their territory. He's said publicly that he would get the war ended as soon as possible if he was president again, and I'm sure this is the sort of end he means.
Another problem with Trump is that he implied in an interview with Tucker Carlson that the US blew up the Nord Stream pipeline. I doubt this is true. I think Russia did it. Also, Trump didn't even believe his own intelligence agencies who said that Russia interfered in the 2016 US presidential election.
I remember when Apple was better. MacBooks were designed so that users could easily replace the battery, storage, and memory. But now, these parts are not designed to be replaced by users. The storage and memory is soldered, and the batteries are glued in.
Yes I think it's very good that the EU is pushing smartphone makers to have replaceable batteries. I hope these companies don't find a way around that.
There is of course Fairphone which has a replaceable battery, but Fairphones are a bit expensive. But I think there is a demand for this sort of thing. Look at how Framework laptops have got a lot of attention.
They might keep those users more engaged with this new app though. The Twitter format might be more successful for facilitating outrage and arguments than the Facebook format is.
And more engagement means more adverts shown and thus more revenue.
Turn it into an NSFW subreddit, as others are doing, because then Reddit can't run ads on the subreddit.
Also, their whole spiel about subreddits being for users, who you are letting down, is obviously a crock of shit. They care about one thing only - money. They care about being able to continue financing their BMWs, because God forbid they have to ride the bus.
Reddit's response to everything over the last week or however long it has been:
"Fuck you, we don't care about you, we want to line our pockets, we literally think of users as dirt, we expect you to bow down and kiss our shoes"