Im working up the courage to. Ill never go back, but it is also hard to delete that much history just for a statement
I’m waiting to see what happens; they’ve announced the API screw-over of the 3rd party apps, but if the protests on the 12th+ blackout the site (you can’t bill advertisers if there ain’t no eyeballs) there might be some concession.
Look, Reddit hasn’t been profitable - yet. The VCs who dumped in 1.3Bn bucks want it back, and I don’t begrudge anyone for trying to make their own ham sandwich; we all gotta eat. My opinion is that the popular 3rd party app developers and API users should have been consulted and involved in the decision-making. And face it: apart from what we’ve paid to our favourite app developers we’ve received an awesome internet community for zero cost for over a decade (some of us anyway)!
How hard is it to go to the Apollo guy or the RiF folks and say: hey. we appreciate you making awesome apps. We need to start earning money. But you too need to make money. How can we work together, to maybe put a few more ads, or ad revenue generating “premium” features without screwing each other over, or our users?
So Ill wait to see what happens in the coming week and ride Reddit-is-Fun out to the bitter end and the lights go out and then probably delete my Reddit account then. But I’ve made the first steps. Im here ain’t I?
Oh, and put in a request now to get an archive of all your Reddit content. I suspect that department will be quite busy in the coming weeks. https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
Im eager to see what form it comes in. If my posts and comments come with some context around them then Im fine with just deleting my account. I hope the links are permalinks so the backreferences to REddit stay intact (AND, you don’t need the API to access, you could essentially “scrape” the context of your posts). I’ve been trying to find a way to search my own comments and posts for years (there are tools, but I want an OFFLINE archive of my stuff - I frequently find myself replying to someone and going hey wait Ive already answered this, now where did I put that comment…
I don’t think I’m going to delete my account, but I don’t really see myself being active anymore. Back when I had an Android phone I used Relay, and when I switched to iOS I used Apollo. They were just better clients and offered a smooth experience that Reddit themselves failed to provide.
More than that though, the utter slander towards Christian Selig just puts me off entirely. He’s been nothing but lovely, listened to his community, and developed a fantastic app, even taking accessibility into account. Reddit on the other hand doesn’t want to bother implementing accessibility features so they’ll happily let certain accessibility focused apps continue using the API.
It’s just so transparently terrible.
On the other hand I’m glad it’s happening. I’d not even heard of the “fediverse” before, but reading up on the ActivityPub protocol and the general idea of how these things work, this is something I really want to succeed. Take social networks out of the hands of corporations and put it into the hands of users.
I’m not a massive fan of Lemmy’s front-end, but that’s fixable. The fact that the code is open source (and they use something as standard as Bootstrap) makes it super approachable. Maybe I could even help out.
I’ll miss some of my niche subs, but I’d rather help get them started on a federated platform.
I’m with you. I’ve watched Reddit pull a LOT of bullshit over the years, and this is heinous enough that I’m done. I’ll keep my account because there are some very niche subs that can provide help with certain things, so I want to be able to search or post to them as needed. But Lemmy really has my attention now.
I am trying to transition away from reddit but I won’t delete my account. Do you think that lemmy will eventually become more popular as a result of what reddit has done? It has a much more complicated signup process.
I’m really no good when it comes to speculative things. Lemmy (and the fediverse) is intriguing to me, but I do feel like it needs to be made more user friendly if it is to take off and garner more mainstream appeal.
Currently it really puts the federated-ness in the forefront, but I feel like it might be an idea to soften that a bit. The average user wouldn’t care so much about the details, but knowing that it’s not run by a single big corporation might be appealing. Streamlining the signup process would go a long way.
I did today. My account was about 5.5 years old and I have to admit it was somewhat hard at the beginning. But to be honest I already don’t care anymore.
That API stuff was a huge shitshow that made me really angry. I even would have paid a subscription to be able to keep using Apollo. But if Reddit decides to bring people out of business they are not going to do business with me either.
My plan is to unsub from subreddits as I find comparable communities here until eventually there is nothing left in my feed to keep me at Reddit.
I will delete mine when Sync shuts down, since I exclusively use Sync to browse Reddit. But I really wanted to delete it after I read that sad excuse of an AMA.
Lots of Sync users in this thread, apparently. Hopefully the dev follows through with Sync for Lemmy.
