As with many, I am also leaving reddit. I’m skeptical that the blackouts will make them change their ways and in some ways I hope they don’t and it ends up tanking reddit. I was a part of reddit for 13 years and enjoyed it a lot but it was definitely much better back then. Spez needs to lose big with all his bullshit lies and greed. With all the other sites available for people to switch over to, I think we can create another great community without all the bots and hopefully build a better community for all. Fuck u/spez
Christian has been the public face of this and therefore has borne the brunt of it. I can’t even imagine how frustrating it would be in his shoes.
I do also wish the best for the Android app devs.
I’m a “rif” user for over a decade, so a special shout-out for talklittle. (I hear he’s developing an app for Tildes, a link aggregator.)
Apollo is the only iOS app I have bought lifetime for and continued tipping every couple months. I’ve been on Reddit since 2010 and just deleted my account this morning and I will never be back on the platform. The way Reddit leadership has defamed Christian is absolutely unacceptable and I refuse to give them any more data.
I also bought lifetime for Apollo and did all my modding from that app. I literally can’t mod (I have been for 7 years) now, so what can I do? I’m not going to go out of my way to go on my laptop just to mod, I’m not getting paid. So today I set all the subreddits I mod to private indefinitely, deleted 8.5 years of comments and posts and logged out.
The way they treated Christian was the worst type of behavior I’ve ever seen a company (shit bag CEO) ever treat a developer that literally created an app to help serve the website better, like wtf.
Follow his Mastodon account here: @christianselig
How can I follow Christian on this kbin platform? I’ve only just joined and don’t know my way around but I feel confident that if he lands on a platform he likes I will like it too so I want to follow after tomorrow.
You can follow his Madison (edit: Mastodon) account from kbin (yay federation!): @christianselig