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.

I'm grateful for reddit. It was because of it that I found the fediverse.

yep, deleted my 11 year account today

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 grateful for reddit. It was because of them that I found the fediverse. And I too deleted a decade old history and account from reddit

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!

greedy little pigboy*

Really, the best part about all this shit is Reddit could've implemented a paid 3rd party API that wasn't insane. They could've updated their terms of service and required 3rd party apps to display ads. Shit, they could've leveraged the existing OAuth stuff to limit the 3rd party API access to users with Reddit Gold.

But nah, spez decided to be a greedy shitbird.

Feels right that this was my first upvote here.

People have complained about the "first come first served" mod problem for years. It's 100% Reddit's MO not to fix something until it's made national news and fixing it is self-serving.

ever lift a finger again

I think this would actually make him better at the PR side of his job.

I just deleted my 15-year old account. I was on the fence because it was a part of my life for so long. I thought I’d just hang on to it juuuuussst in case. Today’s news about things made me realize I wasn’t even holding on to anything real. Now piggy can’t make money off of my contributions to Reddit. The last two weeks on here have been more fun than the last 7 years of that place.

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.

DO IT! Fuck Reddit, it's only gotten worse for years

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.

There's scripts and bots that go in and automatically scrub your entire Reddit history, you don't need to do it manually.