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I'm waiting to see what happens; they've announced the API screw-over of the 3rd party apps, but if the protests on the 12th+ blackout the site (you can't bill advertisers if there ain't no eyeballs) there might be some concession.

Look, Reddit hasn't been profitable - yet. The VCs who dumped in 1.3Bn bucks want it back, and I don't begrudge anyone for trying to make their own ham sandwich; we all gotta eat. My opinion is that the popular 3rd party app developers and API users should have been consulted and involved in the decision-making. And face it: apart from what we've paid to our favourite app developers we've received an awesome internet community for zero cost for over a decade (some of us anyway)!

How hard is it to go to the Apollo guy or the RiF folks and say: hey. we appreciate you making awesome apps. We need to start earning money. But you too need to make money. How can we work together, to maybe put a few more ads, or ad revenue generating "premium" features without screwing each other over, or our users?

So Ill wait to see what happens in the coming week and ride Reddit-is-Fun out to the bitter end and the lights go out and then probably delete my Reddit account then. But I've made the first steps. Im here ain't I?

Oh, and put in a request now to get an archive of all your Reddit content. I suspect that department will be quite busy in the coming weeks. https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request

Im eager to see what form it comes in. If my posts and comments come with some context around them then Im fine with just deleting my account. I hope the links are permalinks so the backreferences to REddit stay intact (AND, you don't need the API to access, you could essentially "scrape" the context of your posts). I've been trying to find a way to search my own comments and posts for years (there are tools, but I want an OFFLINE archive of my stuff - I frequently find myself replying to someone and going hey wait Ive already answered this, now where did I put that comment...

My plan is to unsub from subreddits as I find comparable communities here until eventually there is nothing left in my feed to keep me at Reddit.

I don't think I'm going to delete my account, but I don't really see myself being active anymore. Back when I had an Android phone I used Relay, and when I switched to iOS I used Apollo. They were just better clients and offered a smooth experience that Reddit themselves failed to provide.

More than that though, the utter slander towards Christian Selig just puts me off entirely. He's been nothing but lovely, listened to his community, and developed a fantastic app, even taking accessibility into account. Reddit on the other hand doesn't want to bother implementing accessibility features so they'll happily let certain accessibility focused apps continue using the API.

It's just so transparently terrible.

On the other hand I'm glad it's happening. I'd not even heard of the "fediverse" before, but reading up on the ActivityPub protocol and the general idea of how these things work, this is something I really want to succeed. Take social networks out of the hands of corporations and put it into the hands of users.

I'm not a massive fan of Lemmy's front-end, but that's fixable. The fact that the code is open source (and they use something as standard as Bootstrap) makes it super approachable. Maybe I could even help out.

I'll miss some of my niche subs, but I'd rather help get them started on a federated platform.

I did today. My account was about 5.5 years old and I have to admit it was somewhat hard at the beginning. But to be honest I already don’t care anymore.

That API stuff was a huge shitshow that made me really angry. I even would have paid a subscription to be able to keep using Apollo. But if Reddit decides to bring people out of business they are not going to do business with me either.

I will delete mine when Sync shuts down, since I exclusively use Sync to browse Reddit. But I really wanted to delete it after I read that sad excuse of an AMA.

Deleted the app off my phone and put Lemmy in its place to try and switch. Not going to delete my account or posts, just not going back.

I've put all my saved posts and comments in a notes file in preparation and have deleted an alt account. But I think I might keep my main a bit until my most niche subs have transferred (if they'll transfer at all). Once Apollo stops working I'll no longer be going to reddit on my phone in any case.

Currently cloning all of my saved posts with bdfr before sub's go dark

I've edited and deleted useless comments but I don't think I will delete helpful stuff I've posted as I've often found useful information from deleted accounts.

Then on June 30th I'll delete my 3 reddit accounts in solidarity with the 3PAs that are shutting down.

It seems like this year is really going to test the fediverse, first Twitter, now Reddit, and YouTube seems to be following by shutting down Vanced and attempting to shutdown Invidious and also Twitch seems to be messing with their content creators too

They're going to push a lot of people away and so far it seems like Mastodon and now Lemmy are attempting to fill the niche, I hope it works out because I love the concept

I haven't yet. I imagine it'll be like how I handled Twitter... slowly going there less and less as the fediverse got more and more compelling. Now my Twitter account is abandoned.

I deleted my throwaways weeks ago, but I deleted my main account earlier today. I lurked more than I posted which I guess means I don't have a lot of the history a lot of others have with their account but I posted every so often and had the account for years.

Even so, reddit has made it a place I don't want to be, I want them to know that (by falling user numbers) and I also worry reddit will make it more difficult in the future to get rid of your account.

I won't delete all my comments, there are many that are answers to questions and explanations/instructions for those having problems.

I don't feel like it's right to remove them, since so many times I too found solutions in reddit old comments that I couldn't find anywhere else.

For now I'm just downloading my history, then I'll check subs selectively, I may delete a few in non-significant subs but the rest in subs containing help for others will stay.

After that horrible AMA, I stopped using it, what an absolute train wreck

I just kicked off Redact, deleting all 2038 messages I've posted on Reddit over 9 years. It's bittersweet, but I'm done, and while i can't control their database management, I won't have some corpo fuckwit monetizing my content if i can help it.

after seeing /u/spez doubling down on the API changes, i went ahead and deleted my 10 year old reddit accounts posts and comments.

also literally made this account as well, but i'm 100% done with reddit.

I won't. If Reddit goes through with their changes, I'll probably use it a lot less, but you just can't beat certain subreddit communities. I've been a member since July 2015 and have used it nearly every day since I've joined. I hope that these changes will make me use my phone less, but being honest, I'll probably just be here all the time rather than Reddit.

The day I joined Beehaw is the day I deleted my 13 year old Reddit account. I'm already feeling the effects of spending less time scrolling and reading through comments, and more time actually talking to people.

It feels good :)

Completely stopped using reddit. Haven't decided whether I'll delete or sell the account yet

be aware, you need to use a tool to wipe your content before deleting the account, otherwise all the posts will be up again

I think i'll nuke mine after the AMA. Just one more hour!

Edit: its gone

I deleted all my posts and comments today and will delete the account once Apollo is officially dead.

I had 7 years of saved posts in my old Reddit account, deleted it today. We'll see if Lemmy grows, but always open to trying new things!

I literally just deleted my account as of a few minutes ago. Read the thread from Christian about him shutting down the Apollo app, read the thread about how shit the Reddit team was treating him (and presumably, they probably treated other third-party devs similarly), and decided that since I was trying to quit Reddit anyways, might as well pull the plug now.

I've been eying out the Fediverse stuff for a while now, but that was the final push to go and join this place to trial it out and see how I like it.

Not yet. Thinking how to transfer favourite posts from favourite subs (like r/retrofuturism) without being accused of stealing someone's work.

Nuked and deleted my numerous alts over the past few days. Nuked and deleted my main and oldest account (14 years) just a few hours ago.

Might spool up that self-hosted lurk-only software to still browse, but I'm not posting another word on there.

Not quite yet, but when RiF is gone so am I.

Partially because this situation is outrageous. Partially because I forgot my password a long time ago and didn't provide a recovery email, and I like my username.

The only reason I stuck with Reddit was because of Apollo. I’ve just requested my data, hopefully I can get to grips with Lemmy!

Jup. Deleted all my posts, guides and comments yesterday.

I think it's somewhat dramatic for the "future" since so much of reddit is absolutley great knowledge. I can't count how many times a reddit post or comment has helped me solve all kinds of weird problems...

I'm in the EU so I did a GDPR data request before deleting and essentially have a backup of all my own content. I'll filter through it and put on Lemmy or my blog what I think is worth keeping.

I just deleted my u/truejeta account, which was almost 5 years old. Still don't know if I'm gonna miss Reddit, but we'll see. Anyway Lemmy looks very promising, so I'm happy to be here

I deleted my Reddit account today right after that insane AMA

Accounts are meaningless. Karma and upvotes are just buttons. They only hold meaning if you intentionally assign meaning to them. Just download the photos you’ve posted if you don’t have copies and be free of assigning real material qualities to fictional concepts, like some transient code that says your account is 6 years old with 1.6million karma.

i saved what i wanted and used shreddit to wipe all my comments, i did have a couple good threads with answers to questions but they were so outdated i dont think it mattered so i removed all comments, then deleted my account. here now today.

Deleted my 14 year old account yesterday. Didn't save shit. Fuck that place.

13 year old account checking in. I'm undecided if I want to fully delete or not yet. I want to at least hang on until the end of June when shit will really hit the fan (if it does). I'm always up for watching a train wreck.

I deleted all my comments and submissions today (except for a comment thanking the RIF dev and a couple of comments shitting on /u/spez). Not that I was ever a particularly popular redditor, but I'll be fucked if they'll earn another penny on any content I've created.

I don't use an account for browsing, Infinity let me subscribe to subreddits without an account.

I use reddit via Reddit is Fun android app. No app? No using reddit for leisure. I still "use" it from google to get opinions on various things, but since I can't view it from Reddit is fun, I now only do this from desktop.

I tried to migrate off reddit a long time ago back when voat was hip and cool, before it turned into a hub of trolling.

Mine is deleted. 12 years gone. But in the end, I think I'm better off for it.

Reddit deleted it for me. Permabanned my 9 year old account for "abusing the report feature" because I dared to report obvious report bots.

I think I'll leave my Reddit account and not delete it. My account suddenly going silent, after 13 years of near-daily activity, at this of all times, ought to make the statement I wish to make.

I'm wondering whether I should post a goodbye message on my Reddit profile page with a link to my new home here on Lemmy. See if they have the audacity to ban me for “spamming” my own profile page. Even if they do, it'll be one of numerous accounts falsely banned for “spam” in the middle of a well-publicized uproar and mass migration away from Reddit, and that isn't fooling anyone. Either way, my statement is made.

as someone pointed out in this comment, I don't think deleting all the content we generated thoughout the years is a good idea. I still get replies on years old posts from people who had that same exact question, and the amount of information I actively find on reddit is crazy. Reddit won't care about deleted accounts and posts (and they will only be a minority anyway), and I think doing so is a disservice to every person on the web.

Unless you only posted in r/memes and r/askreddit lol