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What happened to the 2023 Reddit API protest? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago by WizardArtsPropaganda@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I left reddit and haven't looked back lmao. Lemmy is great. Just enough content to entertain me but not enough to let me scroll for hours and hours. The community is also so much better and there's great content

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I deleted my accounts and came here. Occasionally, I would still browse reddit - but I haven't posted or commented since that day. I am not alone, either: the quantity and quality of content on Reddit has noticeably declined. I used to go up to 10 pages deep (250 posts) during a browsing session; for the last year, I have been seeing repeat shit on the second page. Reddit gets boring after, like, 15 min tops.

I can't use their app: it is terrible. Seriously, the person who designed it should take up farming. The new reddit browser page is just as bad. While typing this response, I navigated over there in another tab to confirm how bad things have gotten: I could see 2 posts. Two. Fucking. Posts. before I had to scroll (which I did not do, by the way). Reddit, get the fuck out of here with that bullshit.

Now that I can't browse old.reddit.com without an account, they have lost even the meagre advertising revenue my viewing generated.

Reddit did not survive the API protest. It's bleeding out, slowly. For me, Lemmy is the front page of the Internet now.

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Here we are

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

I deleted my account and posts and moved to Lemmy when they announced the change, since I was relying on a 3rd party app for Reddit. Happy that I did, reddit's gone shit and Lemmy is awesome

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I killed my several hundred thousand comment and several hundred thousand post karma decade old account when they killed Apollo

[–] Fierro@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

People promised they'd be back after a few days and they did

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Same as the Hong Kong protests. No leverage, no consequences. Those who could leave did.

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[–] Dezzillion@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Moved over here. Fuck /r/utah specifically.

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

I migrated in june 2023, lemmy.world did not exist yet

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 4 points 3 days ago

They didn't work. Reddit pushed on with the change, their user numbers didn't dip enough and well that's that

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

I deleted my reddit account, and so did thousands of others

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't know, I quit reddit, enjoyed kbin.social till it folded & then came here.

[–] TimboSlice@discuss.online 3 points 3 days ago

We are here now

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Most communities shrugged their shoulders and turned the lights back on after reddit finally dropped the api. They became more heavily moderated and the enshitification only has gotten worse. Those of us that really cared deleted our history and accounts, gave Spez one good last fuck and came here.

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[–] CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I was on Reddit from 2011 - 2022. I switched over to Lemmy after they implemented the fees and the 3rd party apps had to shut down. Haven't logged into my Reddit account since - their app is shut, their new web page is shit, and now they've shut down old.Reddit - more shit

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