Two IMO on-point excerpts of the article:
The highest-ranked replies are very critical of the post. “What good is our feedback when reddit seems perfectly happy to ignore all of it?” wrote one user. “What’s the point?” Another pointed out that Huffman called mods “landed gentry.” “Show, don’t tell,” wrote another user — to which the admin replied, “Agreed.”
“A beginning of what?” replied one user. “This solves nothing, and just wastes everybody’s time.”
Reddit’s administration is sounding more and more like an abusive SO trying to gaslight you into staying in the relationship. “Baby I’ll listen to you, I swear.”
There is a perfectly good alternative available now, that solves most of their complaints. It’s hard to take their continued resistance against the admins seriously, except in cases with real value on the line like harm reduction communities.
For the rest I have to think back to what the initial pushback against lemmy was. The main complaint I saw was that people weren’t comfortable with the leftists in the lemmy community. Any right wing redditor complaining about abuses of authority on the platform really is asking for it, leopards ate my face style. But I get the impression that’s a healthy sum of them.
Judging from posts, the main difficulty of Lemmy is that you have to actually read something to make full use of it. How to pick an instance, how to subscribe, unsubscribe, curate your feed, etc. Then Kbin throws in the curveball that upvotes = boosts while real upvotes = nothing much really, and so on. Granted, it does lack polish.
People looking for daddy spez to take care of them really are hoping for whatever handouts he is willing to offer - they’ll take it, suck it up, and LIKE it, b/c they do not choose to stand on their own two feet.
They had to learn reddit when they started to. And if that’s all their worried about, it’s just a delay and they have all the time in the world to figure it out. I didn’t think of that excuse as a hard rejection. But yeah there were definitely some people talking about that, too. And sometimes it was the same users zealously complaining about both aspects…
At least they gave feedback so we’re more aware of the pain points and what can be improved. Even if some % will be biased. Onboarding could certainly use some more more structure, that was valid criticism. There could also could be UX improvements to help make the functionality more intuitive. These are weak points which we can turn into strengths with time. Happy to say we can’t replace daddy spez, though.