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    To anyone still on Reddit and/or moderates a sub, I would recommend deleting all of your content. Reddit is going to continue making money off of whatever you post, even if it’s helpful. If you’re worried about preservation, submit your content through an archiver. Don’t let them continue to make money off of you when you are not valued. Down with corporate overlords.

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    They are digging themselves in deeper than I expected. At this point, I don’t think I ever want to go back. This is just straight up a middle finger to their communities and contributors.

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      I mean, there was never going to be an ending here where they came out and said, “You know, we’ve heard you, and more importantly, our VC investors who’ve given us 1.3 Billion dollars have heard you, and they’ve told us that your community matters more than their exit.”

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        I’m not suggesting that this kind of timing with Reddit might disrupt one of the largest democratic platforms by converting it into a publicly traded company, but Reddit is definitely giving the same kind of vibes the United States gave when they installed puppet democracies in Latin America.

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    Lol, I can’t believe what I’m reading. Reddit admitting to the mod community that they have a duty to keep spaces “accessible to users.” They’ve had 20 years to keep their spaces accessible to people who require screen readers and so on. It’s been crickets until this week.

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    Oh they’re really sticking by this stupid decision aren’t they. Well, they can’t complain about being laid to rest if they’re the ones who dug the grave, I guess

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    Everything they do just exacerbates the situation

    The site will lose whatever tiny amount of cred it has left if they do this

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      Indeed. I was expecting a two-week “calm before the storm” at this point, as the protest blackout ended but the API was not yet removed. But the protest continued and Reddit keeps stirring the pot. Interesting times.

      I know that in the end Reddit will be able to brute-force themselves a “win”, but if the Fediverse gets a nice solid critical mass of users as a result then I think Reddit’s destined for a long decline.

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        They’re almost literally going to cut off their nose to spite their face. The absolute lack of understanding of the consequences of their actions is… entertaining at least.

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      Remember that it won’t delete comments from private subreddits. (“Wanna see me do it again?” when one opens back up, at least until the 30th hits)

      Also the edit function doesn’t seem to actually work (all my deleted comments are just [deleted]… and keep the original edited on date), that may be a technical issue I imagine best bet for that would be to edit-only before deleting your account itself.

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        I am currently in the process of running it, and it is correctly editing my posts, so that may have been a temporary problem.

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    Fk them.

    I’m wiping my comment history on that site and deleting my account. I’ll never say the name of their website again just to deny the SEO.

    I’ve held off given how much enjoyment/useful content I’ve historically found there. Was waiting to see if they at least gave an inch.

    That site is dead to me.

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    Maybe the Apollo dev will surprise us and make an app for Lemmy. That might help sway users to try Lemmy.

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    I am going to be unpopular for saying this, but from reddits point of view it makes complete sense. Content they “have” is not viewable, so users that make it unviewable need to be removed.

    A vast majority of users on reddit just consumes, they don’t post. Maybe comments but not actual posts. So by making those users be able to view everything again, they will keep them on the site.

    We can just hope that content quality goes down which would drive users away, but thats more a longterm thing.

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      It make sense, but reddit also gave mods tools to go private. They gave mods the power to mod their sub as they pleased until they didn’t like it. A “no, not like that” scenario

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        True but it is also “their” site. So they can do as they please if necessary. I am not sure how anyone is surprised at that. But in turn this now shows what will happen in the future if you try anything out of line, so I hope people who had considered being a mod are not going to anymore.

        Just to be clear, I don’t condone this behaviour, it is pretty shitty. But what else are they supposed to do if they want to keep the site running. Giving in to users demands seems not an option anymore, and to be fair, it is far too late to give in. Who of us really would return happily if they now said they are not going to charge for API access, how could anyone believe them now?

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          I would 100% return to Reddit if they stopped this. I can’t bring back my deleted history and I won’t resub to everything. I’d still keep Lemmy for actual discussion on high visibility topics (you can’t have a conversation with 10,000 people on Reddit). But I would absolutely go back until they tried this shit again.

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      As redditors said “actions have consequences”

      Reddit mods are banned from a proprietary platform like the people they hated. It is quite ironic.