I'm in exactly the same boat. I love Reddit and I love the community. I'm a mod of a couple great small subs. But the site management has broken my trust. And that means it's time for me to 'grow up' and start putting serious thought into which networks I'm supporting with my participation. Decentralized is the future. 'Big Tech' platforms are the kiddy pool of the internet, it's time for us as a society to swim into the deep end and take back control of our content and consumption. It's good to be among friends :)

Me too! Here, here!

There's a harsh reality of any service, regardless of type. If you aren't the one paying for it, you aren't the customer, you're the product. The lurkers, commenters, posters, and mods are all part of the product to be sold to the real customers, the advertisers.

This move is like the ranchers deciding that veal will sell for a higher price, so now we're all being shackled so that we stay tender.

I'm partially affected because I use desktop + mobile (on third party app), but I've decided just to stop using reddit entirely.

Its quieter here, but I imagine it'll pick up slowly. The slower pace also helps because I've been spending too much time on reddit.

It felt really weird to leave. I still have yet to delete my account but I am still getting used to the interface here. Once the learning curve is over, I plan to go back and delete.

Hello, welcome, I joined a few days ago as well, because of the same reasons too. What a coincidence.

Not really I know, lot of us came here from reddit because we don't support it anymore. And that's to be expected with latest actions reddit took exposing their greed and need for control.

Anyway each day here I see more and more content, so it seems things are going good and I love seeing it grow. So guess who's going to stay here too. Cheers.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, this no karma currency thing is awesome.

Agreed

I deleted my 13 year old account.

I just cannot support what Reddit is doing and the direction they are going.

I was over Reddit when I saw the news from Christian (Apollo's dev), then Spez's AMA really cemented Reddit was a shit hole, then news came out that they were also laying off 90 staff members, and the final nail in the coffin for me was getting accosted by another user that I was "spreading misinformation and lying" about Reddit when I commented about supporting the black out.

Make a few accounts, you'll need them.

I also feel the same, though I am not savvy on the current changes happening, they don't make sense to be. I just find the mods and rules over there too stringent especially after getting banned for making a joke on a satire sub. Been on the search for a new site ever since.

Don't forget Reddit is probably one of the best ways to astroturf or push a sentiment.

I would be curious if they have a back door to corporations to allow them to pay reddit to cover up stories.