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>>stanis+(OP)
I don't really understand why it had to be this way. It's so easy to think of other ways this could have been handled. Even just announcing the same change with 6 months of lead time rather than 1 month would have gone over better. Or boil the frog and gradually introduce API restrictions. It's as if the CEO is purposefully being as belligerent as possible to rile people up.

>>extr+k4
I don't understand why the users aren't just leaving? Surely the software/infrastructure can't be that hard to replicate, especially on a "subreddit" level?

Why don't a few big mods just go this route and tell everyone else?

>>jrm4+4h
One of the key criticisms from the moderator side of things is that Reddit by itself is not usable; you simply can't moderate a large subreddit effectively using only on-platform tools. So they can't migrate to a Reddit clone which won't have all the third party support that's been built up.

Some communities have talked about going to Discord, but that's of course more of a closed platform in most ways.