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.

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 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.

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.

I’ve put all my saved posts and comments in a notes file in preparation and have deleted an alt account. But I think I might keep my main a bit until my most niche subs have transferred (if they’ll transfer at all). Once Apollo stops working I’ll no longer be going to reddit on my phone in any case.

I haven’t yet. I imagine it’ll be like how I handled Twitter… slowly going there less and less as the fediverse got more and more compelling. Now my Twitter account is abandoned.

Currently cloning all of my saved posts with bdfr before sub’s go dark

I’ve edited and deleted useless comments but I don’t think I will delete helpful stuff I’ve posted as I’ve often found useful information from deleted accounts.

Then on June 30th I’ll delete my 3 reddit accounts in solidarity with the 3PAs that are shutting down.

It seems like this year is really going to test the fediverse, first Twitter, now Reddit, and YouTube seems to be following by shutting down Vanced and attempting to shutdown Invidious and also Twitch seems to be messing with their content creators too

They’re going to push a lot of people away and so far it seems like Mastodon and now Lemmy are attempting to fill the niche, I hope it works out because I love the concept

I won’t delete all my comments, there are many that are answers to questions and explanations/instructions for those having problems.

I don’t feel like it’s right to remove them, since so many times I too found solutions in reddit old comments that I couldn’t find anywhere else.

For now I’m just downloading my history, then I’ll check subs selectively, I may delete a few in non-significant subs but the rest in subs containing help for others will stay.

Deleted the app off my phone and put Lemmy in its place to try and switch. Not going to delete my account or posts, just not going back.

After that horrible AMA, I stopped using it, what an absolute train wreck

Completely stopped using reddit. Haven’t decided whether I’ll delete or sell the account yet

after seeing /u/spez doubling down on the API changes, i went ahead and deleted my 10 year old reddit accounts posts and comments.

also literally made this account as well, but i’m 100% done with reddit.

I think i’ll nuke mine after the AMA. Just one more hour!

Edit: its gone

Please don’t delete your Reddit account. It is of minimal impact to Reddit. Keeping a database of users and their posts is far less resourceintensive then actually serving them, Reddit won’t care.

It does however screw ppl over when googling questions. We all know that adding site:reddit.com in google search is pretty much a must at this point when searching for solutions to obscure problems. Delete that and a bunch of potentially useful info is lost forever, and Reddit soldiers on without a care in the world.

If you insist upon deleting all your Reddit data, please archive it first, so valuable info isnt lost forever.