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Removing as it is off-topic. I've cross posted this to !reddit@lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/205168
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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Today I made the jump and deleted my last account. I used Reddit one way or another for the last 16 years. It feels weird, but at the same time, I simply couldn't support the platform anymore. Being honest, it hasn't been like the platform I once loved using for a long time. Bots run rampant, the same two to three memes get regurgitated over and over and Spez has just been the idiot to break the camel's back.
Welcome here! I also deleted all my accounts. First felt weird, but now I found Lemmy I don't look back. I don't want to support a business run by such a lunatic.
I'm actually impressed how active this place is
Going to be interesting to see how much more active it gets in the coming weeks
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Yeah seriously. First the apps and next I'm sure they'll take old away. At that point I don't know how to use reddit with the fucking ads so better to make the cut now.
I'm grateful for reddit. It was because of it that I found the fediverse.
yep, deleted my 11 year account today
Unless you purged your content before deleting you didn't really do much.
Since they are restoring deleted comments purging your content isn't doing much more. What a scum bag company. Lol
I think I will wait a bit to try and delete mine. Hopefully they get tired of cat and mouse delete game.
Same. I just deleted all my content, but not the account itself since they appear to be rolling back comment deletions. I'll delete my content as many times as I need to before I delete my account fully.
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I didn't have an account, but I ended up uninstalling the app I was using. I couldn't support it, even as an "outside' lurker. I'm happy to be here though!
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u/spez is a despicable cunt and should be removed from the cesspool that is now reddit
A big fuck you to Reddit users from the CEO of a company crumbling itself to pieces.
Feels right that this was my first upvote here.
I am new here as well and Iβm already liking what I see. :)
Same.
Welcome!
Not my first upvote here, but my second comment. Seeing the news about how spez is behaving, Iβm glad Iβm making the jump to lemmy. Havenβt deleted my account yet, still saving a few things before nuking my post/comment history and deleting my account
Pretty damn rich coming from the CEO of a website that makes no content of its own.
Never mind all those mods who work for free that they're chosing to screw over and sabotage. I'm sure this won't have any negative consequences.
We're gonna see reddit go the "free speech" route because that's cheaper than hiring mods. Course they could have kept things the way they were and got their mods for free, but w/e lmao.
Reddit is gonna get flooded with garbage content and bigoted shit and most people are gonna leave. Hopefully they'll come here.
I guess I gotta get off my lazy ass this weekend and fuck up my comments
There's scripts and bots that go in and automatically scrub your entire Reddit history, you don't need to do it manually.
Work smart, not hard.
New here, too. Glad to be here.
The audacity of him being mad at all the people producing and managing the content on the site for him. Seems they lost sight of that along the way andncan only see the traffic of the consumers of that content lol.
Huge wake-up call when he looks up one day and goes, "why is there no content on reddit anymore!?"
Yes, have votes to remove moderators, I'm sure that would end with no issues at all for marginalized communities.
Man is not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Definitely a tool though.
It seems like the absolute most chaotic decision for anyone. Any community where any tension exists will be having constant campaigning for recalls.
The king is instituting one component of democracy because he thinks the peasents will vote his way for one specific issue. But even in the immediate term this will cause more grief than the reddit blackout ever did.
I can think of a few specific communities where there has been significant long term resentments against the mods. Particularly as the mods have enforced rules on the community to avoid being kicked off reddit. I bet within 1 week, all or most of these will have mod recall votes going to remove the mods. If successful the subs will be full of reddit rule breaking straight away. The new mods will not mod.
Its really hard to tell if he just wants the website out of his life or what. Maybe buddy just needs a change personally.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/14b5q1f/how_to_request_an_abandoned_community_or_a_mod
Seems they will allow lower ranking mods request to boot top mods that support being private now. So yeah, hostile take over incoming.
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I'm a big booster of the Fediverse, but I had continued to moderate r/Sizz, a community I founded back in 2017. I had been contributing there at least 12x per day, and zealously moderating it. I've always liked Reddit because it let me share stuff I love on my own terms. But now that's changing.
I've long pondered migrating r/Sizz to the Fediverse, and I might have to do that.
DO IT! Fuck Reddit, it's only gotten worse for years
Only 3% of Reddit users use third-party apps. This was such a weird hill to die on and it's not going to make them suddenly profitable. Models of monetization that rely on advertising just don't work. Adding a few thousand users to the list of people who see them isn't going to suddenly make it so.
not sure where the 3% metric is coming from but from what I understand, a big hit to "no 3rd party apps" is moderation tools - it'll make the larger subs more difficult to moderate - and will end up costing reddit $$$$ when the unpaid mods quit over it
It was a combination of the absurd pricing for the third party apps and that the people most affected by this would be not only those with accessibility issues, but the mods who do damn near all the day-to-day operations of the site. Reddit relies on unpaid moderators to keep subs from turning into bot spamming grounds and the official app is more difficult to use for basic functions and doesn't support many of them at all.
So they were essentially giving the finger to their unpaid workforce and then claiming that the complainers were mad about no longer getting everything for free. It's a pretty hefty dose of hypocrisy.
I wish him wet socks he can't take off.
remove them? pretty sure they left
Imagine the shocked Pikachu face when they realize they've alienated the best mods and now have to pay for a moderation team.
I hope if they make it so the community can remove moderators, and they also replace the mod teams of the protesting subreddits, that the community will come together and always vote out any mods they put in place.
So Reddit is going to start using scabs for mods? This can't go wrong in any way possible...
"How dare the proles stop making me money! What am I (not) paying them for??"
Yes please let Reddit die faster ππ»
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