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?
Most communities shrugged their shoulders and turned the lights back on after reddit finally dropped the api. They became more heavily moderated and the enshitification only has gotten worse. Those of us that really cared deleted our history and accounts, gave Spez one good last fuck and came here.
I wish I would have thought of nuking my account before I left but damn if I could think of my username and passwords anymore I had a couple multiple accounts one was about 15 years
Kind wish I would have sold my account to a karma troll. Watch it burn.