To make a long story short... Reddit's doing a DEEPLY UNPOPULAR API change that effectively wipes out 3rd party tools and clients, which sparked site-wide protests. Reddit's CEO is now having a pretty public meltdown and threatening moderators partaking in said protests. Lemmy popped up in a good number of discussions on Reddit in regards to the situation. Queue the start of a mass-exodus of Reddit users and mods to Lemmy

[–] MicroWave 33 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Gotcha. I'm generally aware of what's going on over there but wasn't sure if a particular post or action caused the big surge today.

[–] Grant 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What caused me to just delete the app and my account is the post by the Apollo creator today. When you see it all put together, it's really shameful how poorly the community, moderators, and devs are treated. It was a huge post and on popular

[–] danc4498 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's there a screenshot or something? I've done good about not logging in...

[–] MicroWave 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's the archived version if you don't want to go there: https://archive.is/AxBTl

[–] danc4498 7 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

[–] cod 12 points 1 year ago

It’s a very long image, so I’m not sure how readable it’ll be, but I used Apollo’s awesome “share as image” feature to do this (hoping it’ll be implemented in one of the Lemmy iOS apps soon).

[–] Grant 7 points 1 year ago

I've created a pastebin as well so feel free to read either. Thank you to the person who did the giant screenshot!