I remember when Reddit announced it would begin charging commercial developers for access to its API, and in response, thousands of subreddits went dark in protest. I think it lasted for a couple of weeks. The CEO threatened the Reddit mods that he would replace them if they didn’t reopen the subs, so nearly every mod reopened and everything went back to normal. The CEO won easily without offering anything, and he was right when he said that ‘this too shall pass.’ Those third-party apps offered accessibility features for disabled people that Reddit still hasn’t implemented today. Now Reddit is getting even worse. How come there wasn’t a protest like that when they made even worse decisions?

  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    75·
    4 days ago

    I’m one of the people that deleted my Reddit accounts and went to Lemmy. One of them was over or at a hundred K, karma, and it’s just gone, other than the fact that a couple of the stories I wrote were reposted by news sites.

    • czl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      28·
      4 days ago

      Present, I think I had over 500k karma, but I don’t really care about that. I think I joined about ‘09

        • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
          17·
          4 days ago

          Hello, me 4. One time I even got the “Top 1% of karma earners” award which… well I didn’t know how to feel about that. Deleted my account when the only mobile app that offered visual assists for visually impaired peeps was ruined by greed.