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?
You’re currently talking to the results of that protest. Many here are a result of it. It isn’t for not unless you and I are.
As old as my last .ml ban lmao.
*it isn’t for naught
*it isn’t for knot
Sometimes my hair is knotty.
Sometimes I’m naughty.
lol yes, when dusting off linguistically archaic expressions, one might as well go for the gold
The lexically accurate anachronism would be “for nothing” which in fact lives on in the provincial colloquialism not fer nothin’
But that’s neither here nor there 🌈
If nautical nonsense be something you wish…
Present
Here
Me too!
I think many of those that left were the active ones, and original posters as well. So impact was larger than just the numbers
I agree. It’s been downhill ever since, I never open Reddit nowadays. It’s all bots or stupid Facebook-level users.
I had to get a new account because I was on .ee when it shut down. But I too was here from the API exodus.
I migrated willingly, cause each instance had it’s own issues. PieFed also now have issues — they limit amount of upvotes. This shit sucks. :c
I’m doing my part.gif
Here here! Lost my old Lemmy account to a shutdown but still here and present!
Dang you just made me look: acct age = 3 years, 1 month. That was exactly the timing…