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?
a few days passed, people folded like a fuckin’ lawn chair.
I haven’t. I moved to Lemmy as soon as my reddit app of choice stopped working. Then I deleted my reddit account and all comments.
Now that the app has also shifted to Lemmy, my experience is the same, and actually continuing using reddit would be more of a friction than using Lemmy as I’d have to learn the new interface.
Well apparently not everyone gave in, lots of people deleted their accounts, comments and moved to lemmy.