I would have gladly paid for a premium reddit experience, had it provided useful features. 3rd party app access is something I would have totally understood and paid for. RES features integrated, various styles such as old.reddit enshrined and protected, the option to opt in/out of various features, premium access to mod/admin subs that actually get a response, etc.
Instead they offered awards to give out. No value, no purchase.
Running a public instance is 100%, definitely not suitable for someone without experience or at the very least a solid background and a sincere willingness to learn and spend time maintaining it.
A private server for yourself and a group of buds?
There isnt really a reason not to give it a go if youre interested.
This is what im going to do when I get a spare few hours to set it up.
Im looking at it in the same way as my searx instance. Just a private portal that will have as much uptime as I can maintain, federated with who I want and no one I dont.
“Official” is such a strange term and im truly looking forward to the end of the “migration” period.
I get that people want a similar experience to their reddit feed, but I dont understand why people see reddit affiliated communities as the best options.
At some point its better to just tear the bandaid off.
Posts do get pushed through, its just been a period of heavily increased traffic the last week or so, and many instances have had to tame measures to stay online at all, which in many cases has broken or slowed down the propagation.
These are issues that will be resolved in time
Is it our property though?
Intellectually speaking yes, but legally speaking? Probably not. Chances are if its stored on their servers, it belongs to them.
It was always there. Back in the day if you gave someone gold for a comment, you were giving them one month of premium.