I got a message on Reddit yesterday cussing me out for editing all of my comments there.
Someone was mad that a comment of mine that would have been helpful to him was edited, so they couldn’t read it.
I didn’t reply but in my head I was thinking “great, so it’s working”.
Seems like they’re speeding up their own decline.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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I thought they restored all the edited comments? Maybe I'll give it a go then.
Apparently they've been somewhat inconsistent with that. From what I've read, deleted comments have been more likely to be restored than edited comments, though either have been reported to have been messed with resp. left alone by Reddit.
I for one have replaced most of my posts with a "I hope u/spez grows tastebuds on his rectum" standard text some three weeks ago, which they appear to have left alone so far. But that's a sample size of one user so by no means representative.
Mine are still there, but edited it to a general narrative of what happened and why I edited/left the platform. I didn't get all my comments, cause it was numbering in the 5000s I think, and no don't care to be that through. But it got many of them, and the API changes I ruin make it hard to do now.
I might be wrong, but I think most of those issues were from people trying to edit comments that were in a subreddit that had gone private. I don't think the API could deal with that.
The first time I did it, a bunch of my comments were still there. I did it again, and after that it seems like all of mine have stayed edited (but I'm not going to check thoroughly, there were a lot)
Hm, I deleted my account. I wonder how many of these I might have gotten...
Upcoming Reddit DLC store:
- Keep listening to music after switching to app - 5.99
- Battery Saver mode - 2.99 per month
- Block more users - 4.99 per additional 50 blocks
- Upvote button doesn't open the "Share" feature - 0.99 per 50 upvotes, 9.99 per 50 votes for NSFW posts
Let's put in more bad ideas.
On SuperUser, people can't vote and do certain things without reputation. Semi annoying, semi understandable, right? Perfect for Reddit! And of course, users can make a monetary donation to increase their reputation.
$0.99 per month to read all the comments on a thread, slowly increase the cost year-over-year and eventually add a second (initially) $0.99 per month to read any comments at all (because you should only read posts and only the ones we want you to see).
$49.99 per year
"What the fuck‽" he said, to no one in particular.
That’s pretty insane. Who is paying that kind of money?
I paid for Reddit Premium for years to help support the service and legitimately remove ads. If I remember right, it was around $4/month, so $48/year.
I somehow was given gold twice before they changed how things worked. I was kinda surprised I got gold because the post just said to report people as much as possible when they throwing games in over watch.
Anyway when reddit premium rolled out I got it free for like 2 years because of that. It was a pretty cool/lucky way to get it.
Is this a fucking joke?? Holy shit lmao.
This absolutely reeks of despair
The feeling that commercial platforms give me is being harassed until I pay them money.
I like to support platforms, but don't like being milked like a milk cow.
That's why I'm completely open source and on free networks only.
Modern day AAA gaming as well. It’s all battlepasses and digital store fronts you’re hit with first. Then they take an hour to fix store problems and a month to fix gameplay problems.
If they only took money once, that'd be acceptable. But like bullies and addicts, if you give them money once they just keep coming back for more.
Reason #482398 why I'm glad I left Reddit.
What's a Reddit?
I'm still using it for now, but I've started using other platforms as well to ease the the inevitable transition
Or you can pay no money and not look at it at all!
Can you not change your all icons on iPhone to anything you want like you can on Android? That fuckin sucks fam.
Reddit Premium costs $5.99 per month or $49.99 per year. However, for users subscribing through the iOS app, the subscription is more expensive – $6.99 per month or $59.99 per year.
LMAO they killed third party apps to force you to use their garbage app, then charge extra for something if you buy it in said garbage app. What in the actual fuck.
Apple takes a cut too, so it's a whole line of squeezing cash out of users.
No more 3rd party apps, so now we have license to make our app shittier unless you pay to keep it less shitty.
The simple answer to this is to not use Reddit on mobile.
The simple answer to this is to not use Reddit ~~on mobile~~.
Right, and when Old Reddit dies, so does my account.
I'm just glad that this entire thing has really made me re evaluate my relationship with social media and communities as a whole. Personally I'd rather have a smaller community with a bunch of nerds then another content hose. So thanks bee haw.
Why is it like that? It's so bizarre
It’s apparently an event icon because place is starting again tomorrow
I wonder what percentage of the ones who were protesting the api but chose to stay and be active on reddit ended up downloading the official app.
There’s a few communities that haven’t made their way anywhere else at the moment, so I check in occasionally. No matter how much I want to engage with those communities though, the app keeps driving me away.
It has mind bogglingly dumb features like: muting the music you’re listening to, broken images, battery drain, being generally sluggish. That’s on top of sponsored posts, suggested posts and a terrible blocking system
sponsored posts, suggested posts
I had hated that aspect of Twitter which is what chased me away to stopping use of an actual account altogether and settling for nitter instead to keep track of accounts but no longer participating. But, it was so much better with how clean it was with apps like Fritter or RSS done through nitter instances so I only saw what I wanted. Now that's looking like method is reaching its end.
The clutter they tried to push on me wasn't worth consuming the material the official way anymore.
It was what killed Instagram for me years back too when they killed chronological feeds. Then I deleted the account and moved to using barnista to follow accounts without an account. Then that died and I just dropped Instagram altogether and didn't look back, since I wasn't going to make an account again and consume things the official way.
Boost for Reddit is still working for me, for some reason, even without the patch to use my own API key.
A couple of the apps agreed to do the subscription model and were granted a temporary exclusion from being blocked until the whole process is worked out.
Boost isn't one of them, it's not supposed to be working.
The official app is full of so much garbage... Even if you remove the ads on Android with the ReVanced manager.
Within the first 10 posts you see, there is always a 'suggested' one that is more than 5 days old. Who wants that?
It almost feels like playing a flashy mobile game that wants you to spend money on every corner. It's insane.
Luckily for the few communities that I haven't found elsewhere yet, Relay is still working. I'm almost certainly not going to go for whatever subscription the developer ends up setting up (although I did buy Premium years back for it), so once that's live, I guess I'm out on my phone. I still can't believe how trash the official app is, and how it has moments of stutter even on my Pixel 7 Pro.
Reddit is really going downhill 🪦
Reddit is obsessed with money as of late,wouldn't be surprised if they start charging monthly for app access.
@rainpoint @RealAccountNameHere Their venture investment has dried up after they used their last round of ~$250m to more than double their workforce in less than two years in a drive to capitalise on crypto shit. Now they've had their valuation roughly halved and are left in a really tricky position, desperately needing to monetise to survive.
Spez was chasing an IPO in all the ways you'd expect of a modern techbro, completely misreading the NFT craze and the impact of enshittification.