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?
People started calling out who wanted the better for reddit “tantrums” so the good part of reddit left, and many of them are here on lemmy networks.
As results Reddit’s quality today is basically Facebook. no difference.
I think that’s about the time that Ask Peter starting showing up a ton. Quality tanked.
Yeah, I think that’s basically it. Reddit was full of bots, and now it’s just bots arguing with each other and trying to shove whatever they are promoting in front of you. Add in the slow death of old reddit, it’s simply not worth going to the site any longer.