Mostly_Harmless

“Wait, wait, hear me out. Carbon. Fiber.”

They’re already on Insta, so they’re really not giving up anything extra

I’m not sure if you’re old enough to remember Digg, but they also alienated their users which caused users to migrate to Reddit.

https://d3.harvard.edu/platform-digit/submission/the-demise-of-digg-how-an-online-giant-lost-control-of-the-digital-crowd/

I deleted my Reddit account right after I noticed Apollo stopped working. Mastodon and Kbin are filling the void nicely and I find I don’t miss Reddit at all.

At first I did feel that way. But as my engagement with reddit went down it felt like my life improved.

Some subreddits require a certain level of karma to be able to post or reply to comments. I don’t know if that was to help against bots or people who would make an account to avoid a ban or something. Other than that karma was just an ego boost for those who cared about such things.

Getting rid of old reddit is a given at this point.

And since u/spez is following the Elon business model, I would imagine locking content behind a paywall is next.

It stopped about 2200 US eastern time for me…at least that’s when I noticed it. I uninstalled and then deleted my Reddit account. I’m all in on the fediverse!

@Brkdncr

There’s definitely room for improvement, but I like what I see so far and don’t have a problem learning a new paradigm. I’m sure that as the platform matures things will become more consistent.

Most of us are new here. It’s like the great Digg migration years back!

Learning a new platform is fun, and I can’t wait to see this take off as Reddit becomes a shell of it’s former self.

I just deleted all three of my Reddit accounts. I hope a lot of others do the same!

It’s just beginning!

@akai
Same here. Once Apollo stopped working, I deleted my 5 year, 14k karma account. Fuck Reddit and fuck u/spez.