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I had been on Reddit since 2011. This place feels a lot like the Reddit of 2011 but with less rage comics. I didn’t get banned. I left during the API debacle of 2023 when Reddit decided to push to make itself just a TikTok clone with occasional text and link posts and blocked the 3rd party clients using the API. Apollo kept Reddit as it was and without Apollo, I had no reason to use Reddit any more
I hear you. You get used to one of the clients, the really awesome nitche communities, start making friends (or at least start recognizing the user names) and then...rug pull. The clients were removed, a lot of the ways we communicated with said people got MUCH worse. And then you discover people are getting paid to post/comment on reddit, teh whole AI thing...just felt crummy.
The last thing you want to do is make it harder/impossible for your power users, users that love your platform enough to make a free app to interact with it to use said platform. Its so dumb they made a competitor thats still going strong to this day (US).
I used to haunt Rotten Tomatoes movie forums and that site did an upgrade that went on for months. It basically killed the board, so I moved to Reddit sometime in the late aughts.
This place is not nearly as active as Reddit was back then nor does it have as much porn.
I have no idea what the API thing is, I have heard about it around these parts.
For me the lowest and shittiest point for Reddit was the Ellen Pao stuff. Good damn, the internet is one sexists place but a vocal group of reddit users took that to the extreme.
The high point of reddit was The Swamps of Dagoba story and Woody Harrelson’s absolute shit of an AMA.
Let’s talk about Rampart