I’ve been seeing a lot of pro-reddit, anti-mod comments, despite tens of thousands of up votes on Reddit blackout posts. Pro-reddit comments also have a ton of gold for some reason.
Is reddit trying to change the narrative towards hating on mods for “ruining everything” before they try and remove them?
I don’t really care. I don’t visit Reddit anymore and don’t intend to return.
My issue has been that I have too many niche hobbies that either don’t have communities on Lemmy/Kbin, or have very small, inactive communities.
I deleted my 3 Reddit accounts last night, one that had over 110k karma. I’m starting to get cosy with Lemmy now, hopefully some refinements and it will be great.
After June 30th Lemmy is still my new home. I won’t browse reddit without Relay Pro.
I used Apollo, and after the way they treated the creator, there’s no way I would use Reddit again.
Apollo was an outstanding app. Easily my most used when I had an iPhone. The fact that it’s been killed by Reddit is absolutely shameful imo.
I have Boost (paid), Relay (paid), BaconReader (paid) and at one point, Apollo (paid).
I loathe the official app and ads, I won’t be back either. I have a special amount of contempt for the Reddit app even prior to this event.
I really liked Reddit Sync and I’ve never used the official app before. The way I see it, if I’m going to be forced to make a change anyway, I might as well leave Reddit altogether for something new.
Just a heads up, looks like Relay pro will still be a thing moving to a sub mode (dev states $2-$3/month)
That’s very tempting, but there’s no telling if reddit will raise API pricing going forward, or add more restrictions to 3rd party apps. Their community has gone to shit anyway. Better to just pull the plug entirely and start anew.
I’ll keep checking the front page of all once or twice a day until Reddit is fun dies, but once that happens, I’m done with Reddit
I enjoy this comment so much. :D
I have also deleted my apps, and unbookmarked the page. I sometimes still mistakenly auto pilot to the website but quickly get off.
Yeah, delete your account too.
It’s like Cortes burning the ships.
I’m mainly keeping an alt account for /r/SQL because for it’s sort of a defacto professional repository (also the only place you can ask for and get a sciprt for a bespoke data cleaning on a large relational DB in about 60 minutes).
I do get deleting accounts (and I’m deleting my “main” just commenting account) but some of the accounts have literally irreplaceable info, not just in the tech space, but my god some of the guides for gaming in older games only exist on reddit (like getting a full 50 monuments in the original Guild Wars, or setting up a good build for Bioshock 2). So I’m keeping my “info” accounts for as long as I can, I know it adds value to reddit being assholes, but I feel it adds more value to a stressed out Admin over their head in a bad situation, or some frustrated retro gamer that doesn’t want to know the glitch mode that everyone uses right now.