I was using i.reddit.com during this period. The default mobile website was completely unusable.

Of course, they recently removed i.reddit.com, similar to the third party apps. They achieved the desired user growth and are now transitioning into the aggressive monetization phase.

Good luck making money off of me while I’m using Lemmy instead of Reddit.

At this point in time, reddit cares about numbers, not competency. It doesn’t matter If a sub (or the entire site) degrades over time, as long as IPO numbers are maximized so they can cash in.

I was expecting some humility, admission of faults and an olive branch.

Instead, the CEO just doubled down and comes to the AMA with canned, smug responses. What a joke.

While failing to mention the contribution that third party apps made to reddit’s popularity.

They also promised to support third party clients for a long time - classic bait and switch.

I commend the shutdown but if things get out of hand reddit admins will take over the popular subs. They won’t let a prime sub get shut down by mods.

Open sourcing won’t do much because the value of reddit are its users, not the code.

They would have to join the fediverse to rebuild to trust but of course there is 0% chance of that because their focus is $$$.

I agree with you that the feeling of no keymaster if very liberating.

Charging for APIs is not the problem, the problem is the deceitful, smug and bad faith approach to it.

Same. Using Lemmy is like a breath of fresh air.

Same. Their values, attitude and disregard for users is the problem.

It works be nice if there was a way to verify that a user is the same one across Lemmy instances.

I wish signing up was easier for non technical users.

I understand the need for approving new sign ups but this can be off putting for new users.

The community feeling really reminds me of early days of reddit.

The beautiful part is that no one can enshitify Lemmy.