My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
But what Reddit is putting a price on is access to content generated by its users, not Reddit itself.
Spot on. Spez is short-sighted thinking he can "musk out" of this situation, as reddit is no twitter.
Twitter's value is on its users: often empty but famous shells moving hot air from tweet to tweet. Reddit's value was in the content we brought but as soon as we stop feeding the beast it's just a glorified wayback machine. That is, if we do not delete our past contributions.
Devs will have some hard weeks (probably months) facing the new challenges that come with the exodus. Not even mentioning all the work needed to counteract eventual (probable) malevolent subterfuges such as these bot swarms.
I'll make sure to buy them some coffee. Jugs of.
I cannot exclude the possibility that the recent increase in bot accounts on some instances is somewhat linked to such already engaged subterfuges. I mean, the time frame is way too coincidental.
Well she's definitely not a committee.
Spez just got muskified.
He was thinking (or more likely, his hubris was babbling): "If Elon can do it, I can do it!" without realizing that reddit is the exact opposite of twitter.
Meanwwhile in the real world, twitter's value is all about its users (as in, empty but famous shells making some noise) while reddit's value is in the content its users bring. On reddit the influence isn't the person but what they bring along, and if they stop bringing it along then reddit's just a second-hand internet time machine.
Not even talking about users who (like me) have deleted their "lifetime" contribution while keeping their account alive (in order not to find it restored with a dummy handle). Reddit is getting the Thanos treatment, bit by bit.
Massive indeed, dansup is super-competent. I love the way this is all going.
Amen to that!
At least it makes some noise for "normie users" that could have looked the other way and kept business as usual despite stickied posts ("Oh no more technical protest crap, just let me see more cats videos!"). This (more or less) indirect visibility can pique such users' interest and lead them to assess the situation differently and eventually follow the rabbit further down.
It also acts as a ZAD (Zone to Defend) after the initial blackout protests.
FYI all of these solutions stop working in 10 days 🤣
Wrong. Most solutions (see below) linked here are either proxies or scrubbers-archivers, which mean they are using HTTPS requests to access a web page.
If such solutions really stopped working on July 1st then you wouldn't be able to access reddit with your browser.
Which could be an interesting side effect.
(About teddit and libreddit: those two are "portmanteau" using varying techniques to obfuscate reddit crap. Teddit is indeed using some "unofficial" API so it may or may not work, and apparently libreddit is proxying requests so it should probably work. It will also depend on their .json use as it is also covered by the new terms.)
Reddit does not really have a reputation of fair-play. As you have deleted your account without deleting your data you might find it restored with a dummy handle "for consistency".
My advice to anyone: if you want to take your data back from reddit you should first edit your posts (to some "lorem ipsum suck fpez" gibberish) then delete them using tools like power delete suite or shreddit.
Then you should keep your account alive and regularly pay reddit a visit just to see if its content hasn't been restored. If you're in a country under GDPR regulation you can also ask for a GDPR archive of your data that should cover whatever they have on you including posts and comment. This is a good way of verifying what you deleted was actually deleted and not just "marked as" and yet available.
I have left reddit. As in, I do not engage further than discussing migration issues. But I keep an eye on my account and will do so until I'm sure it's been thoroughly cleaned up. Account deletion is not yet in order, it might be before they go public because I also want them to fall hard from that.