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Curious, if you were/are a Reddit user, will you be leaving the platform for good or have you already? CEO has called unpaid moderators' concerns "noise", that will be "passing soon." (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There's a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we've seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would.

Source:
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/13/reddit-ceo-blackouts-no-revenue-impact/

This was a few days back, but I think it's important to bring up for the moment. This is just completely convincing me that those running Reddit are entirely out of touch with their moderators and the well-being of their users. Does this make you want to leave or just rub you the wrong way? Have you already left for good or are you still open to using the platform now that more subreddits are reopening?

I've personally deleted the Reddit related apps off my phone and replaced them with the webapp for Kbin for now by adding the site to my home screen, until an app is developed and released.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually haven't deleted my ~10 year old Reddit account yet. Having thought things through, I probably won't be deleting it, but it hasn't seen any activity since this whole thing went down and it won't get any new activity in the future. The reason for choosing to let my account lie dormant rather than deleting it is because I'd rather keep the account under my control rather than risk it getting used in a way that I don't approve of. Would deleting my account free up the username for someone else on Reddit to get? I don't know, but I definitely don't want that as my username is the same across my various accounts, so it's basically me trying to keep my online identity under my control. But I'm definitely done contributing to Reddit otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

FWIW, you can't reuse usernames that were deleted. Whether that changes, who knows. Wouldn't be the first shit decision reddit has made.