I remember when Reddit announced it would begin charging commercial developers for access to its API, and in response, thousands of subreddits went dark in protest. I think it lasted for a couple of weeks. The CEO threatened the Reddit mods that he would replace them if they didn’t reopen the subs, so nearly every mod reopened and everything went back to normal. The CEO won easily without offering anything, and he was right when he said that ‘this too shall pass.’ Those third-party apps offered accessibility features for disabled people that Reddit still hasn’t implemented today. Now Reddit is getting even worse. How come there wasn’t a protest like that when they made even worse decisions?
What happened for me: I left reddit forever. Never looked back. Don’t use it, don’t miss it. I was quite active over there. Since then I am here.
A lot of large subs that really tried to make a stand got taken over by the admins.
Oh cool! So I’ve been on here 3 years haha
I was a reddit user for, idk, 13 years? I forget. Came here in 2023 because of the API shenanigans. The official reddit app sucked then and still sucks today. I open reddit maybe once a year, sigh, and close it again.
Lemmy has become so much better since joining, as far as apps go. Glad I left.
Similar position
Burnt down my profile, left several communities unmoddes
Walked away
I left Reddit and ran a script that was supposed to remove all my posts (don’t know if it worked or not).
It was ironic as it happened literally a week after I had bought the premium version of Apollo because I had used it for years and figured I’d finally throw the dev some money. He offered refunds to people but I declined.
Fuck u/Spez
A lot of people that protested left.
Anybody at reddit now must like it or need it. Lemmy wasn’t great either. I think most people have moved on from this kind of social media altogether. As a chronically online loser myself, I’ve never used the Internet less before in my life. It’s scary, and sad, but it is what it is.
How come there isn’t a worse protest? They forcibly removed the mods of dark communities and took them over, forcing them back up. That’s why
People immediately gave up and accepted their ass fucking because it’s convient
Nothing. I left and came here. I blocked reddit at my router along with the other scumbag sites. It doesn’t exist anymore.
I deleted my reddit account, and so did thousands of others
I remember migrating from Digg to Reddit, then Reddit to Lemmy
People tried but honestly, the whole place is a cesspit in retrospect. Lot of mods get actual benefits from running their subreddits when they’re big enough.
My subreddits are still dark and I left forever. I also edited every comment
