> If there was a consensus on the next reddit I would think reddit should be much more worried. I think Reddit should be very worried. Federation works fine f

> If there was a consensus on the next reddit I would think reddit should be much more worried. I think Reddit should be very worried. Federation works fine for a "forum-like" replacement that doesn't need to be super timely. Yes, the federated replacement is currently half-baked. You're not going to pick up the unwashed masses this round. However, more than a few technical sub-Reddits that have simply shut down and are not coming back. The technical users didn't care much for Reddit to begin with and don't mind putting in some elbow grease to permanently kick Reddit to the curb. Lots of technical people now suddenly know about Lemmy who didn't have any clue before. I have no doubt that Reddit will win this round, but it's a Pyrrhic victory. A nice chunk of software development talent is now mobilized to build the thing to wipe them out. To be fair, I don't think the CEO is actually wrong. The AI companies are absolutely free-riding on everybody and that needs to stop. However, the way it was done with the API was not kosher--I suspect had he just grandfathered everybody using the API prior to date <X>, everything would have been fine.