Popular subreddits plan to extend blackouts indefinitely | Engadget
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Moderators from popular Reddit communities say they plan to extend their blackout protests indefinitely.

The funniest part of the article is how he’s slamming the actions of unpaid moderators while saying “they’re mad because they used to get something for free, and now it’s going to be not free”.

  • @[email protected]English
    89•2 years ago

    Today I made the jump and deleted my last account. I used Reddit one way or another for the last 16 years. It feels weird, but at the same time, I simply couldn’t support the platform anymore. Being honest, it hasn’t been like the platform I once loved using for a long time. Bots run rampant, the same two to three memes get regurgitated over and over and Spez has just been the idiot to break the camel’s back.

      • RyanHakurei
        -1•2 years ago

        Unless you purged your content before deleting you didn’t really do much.

        • @[email protected]
          11•2 years ago

          Since they are restoring deleted comments purging your content isn’t doing much more. What a scum bag company. Lol

          I think I will wait a bit to try and delete mine. Hopefully they get tired of cat and mouse delete game.

          • Liara
            6•2 years ago

            Same. I just deleted all my content, but not the account itself since they appear to be rolling back comment deletions. I’ll delete my content as many times as I need to before I delete my account fully.

              • sotolf
                0•2 years ago

                doesn’t help for me they rolled back posts, not that many, but still…

                • detwaft
                  1•2 years ago

                  Kinda interesting to hear of that happening but at the end of the day, if they want to roll back my posts good luck to them, it will cost them more effort than it did for me to run a script to edit/delete

    • @[email protected]English
      14•2 years ago

      Welcome here! I also deleted all my accounts. First felt weird, but now I found Lemmy I don’t look back. I don’t want to support a business run by such a lunatic.

        • MothrOfChrst
          23•2 years ago

          Going to be interesting to see how much more active it gets in the coming weeks

          • Bipta
            2•2 years ago

            It’s going to be a huge flood. We’ll see if Ernest can keep this place running under the load

      • djtwatter
        8•2 years ago

        Yeah seriously. First the apps and next I’m sure they’ll take old away. At that point I don’t know how to use reddit with the fucking ads so better to make the cut now.

    • @[email protected]English
      14•2 years ago

      I’m grateful for reddit. It was because of them that I found the fediverse. And I too deleted a decade old history and account from reddit

    • CharlesReed
      12•2 years ago

      I didn’t have an account, but I ended up uninstalling the app I was using. I couldn’t support it, even as an "outside’ lurker. I’m happy to be here though!