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What was the main reason you left Reddit? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by whitewalker_646 to c/[email protected]

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[–] _pete_ 13 points 1 year ago

For me 90% of it was how badly they handled the paid API transition.

If they had given more than 30 days notice so Christian and the others could have actually handled the changes financially and logistically I would have stayed
If they had just mandated Reddit Premium to be able to use the API instead of weighing the cost on third party apps I would have stayed
If that AMA wasn’t an absolute fucking train wreck I would have stayed
If their official app wasn’t a enshittified mess of advertising dark patterns, user tracking and useless avatar bullshit I would have stayed

It was obvious the writing was on the wall for third party apps and they really didn’t care about fucking them over.

Also - whilst I miss some of the communities greatly (webdev, bluey and formulae being the prime candidates) when I step back and looking at it my feed is a mess of the same reposts, karma farming, doom-scrolling and negativity.

It isn’t the same place it was when I migrated from Digg all those years ago, which is sad but understandable.