I'm still waiting, reddit, why are you still accessible publicly? Second thoughts, spez? Seems this is taking longer than other announcements, like when they locked old.reddit behind a login. I saw the login prompt pop up on desktop once, and never again after that.

Reddit has repeatedly proved that they do not care about their users, regardless of what they say. No one who has left is eager to get back, they are only trying to catch new users which other social networks are much more effective at.

It also allows us to protect access to Reddit’s extremely valuable corpus of data

That's the real problem, people have to stop giving Reddit their data to monetize before they inevitable kick them to the curve and remove any control they had over their own data.

Only reason I was still there was for my local state and city subreddits. Both of them have a discord now and both also have talks of moving to matrix if discord moves to age verification so I have 0 reason to stuck around.

Ok

reddit is moving to "a bot-only experiment"

There's only one social media site that's still the same as it was a decade ago. The only problem is that it was never good.

“During October, we have seen that search traffic has dropped by more than 1 million referrals on average per week. If this rate of decline continues, current trends would suggest that total DAUqs [or daily active unique users] could fall in Q4, by a low-double-digit percentage from our current base of 130 million DAUqs,” Huffman wrote.

Weird that not allowing people to use your site would lower the number of people using your site.

And I'm moving to an always logged out experience.

Fuck /u/spez

When I stopped using reddit a few years ago, I left my account intact because I had 18 years of posts that included a lot of tech help and other useful information that I figured people might stumble across.

Last night, I used Redact to scramble all 5,521 comments.

Anyone who still has an account there, I'd encourage you to use it to gently promote your favourite Fediverse website. There are a significant number of people asking about Reddit alternatives the last couple of days, and sending people directly to a specific suggested site (rather than just saying something like "Lemmy") is more likely to get people to come over and check things out.

It's a shame there's not some big social engagement event going on here right now. Anyone want to start some kind of viral shitpostery?

In other news, Reddit stock is down a whopping 28% today.

Great, it's removing itself from a lot of free publicity it was getting from search results and basically conceding them to the AIs spez was always using as a strawman.

Spez has all but basically admitted that reddit is a targeted experience now and that the only posts you will see are ads, echo chambers, and rage baits. It has little to do with its origins now.