The Core

You might be right.  There was a great migration from digg to reddit when people got fed up with the changes at digg.  I've read that their IPO is right around the corner.

Debbie says Desperation API is likely to fail at scale.


I built an alternative Reddit API to help devs save costs : Save3rdPartyApps

https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/141brdi/i_built_an_alternative_reddit_api_to_help_devs/

Twitter and Netflix were supposed to collapse due to their changes.  Trouble is, their users are addicted.

Netflix's password sharing crackdown seems to be working | Engadget

https://www.engadget.com/netflixs-password-sharing-crackdown-seems-to-be-working-151023478.html

My curated subs (homepage feed) are mostly dead. The only thing running are small, special interest subs. Quite a boring read.

/all was pretty defaced this morning. Still so but not as bad, 4 of the top7 are about the blackout.

I'm surprised they haven't taken over control, so it appears admin plans to just wait this out.

There feels like a real opportunity here for the right tech at the right time.

And here we go...

There is a little sub I moderate because I like the topic and the five other mods have largely abandoned it.  The sub was getting a lot of spam and I didn't want to see it turn to sh##.  Anyway, one of the inactive mods came in and closed it down without consulting anyone else.  I let that stand for the initial protest, but I've since reopened the sub.  I found it irritating because the mod hasn't done any housekeeping in years and just came in to brigade and leave,

Yeah, I'm very curious how this will all end up.  The Reddit management should remember what happened to Digg.
Some are posting lemmy.world as an alternative.