Technology

No, I'm done. My accounts are gone. Not interested in starting over

Absolutely not. If I learned something from Twitter and Facebook and Reddit fiascos then it is to never ever let youself be trapped into a closed-source, centralized for-profit platform. So NO, unless they make it completely open source and decentralised so anyone can setup their own instance. But then again we already have Fediverse and Mastodon and Lemmy... so why bother with that, let's improve what treasure we already have.

Lol no, fuck Reddit. Enough is enough. There's no salvaging that.

I mean, it's not a theoretical scenario, Infinity is going the paid route so you can do just that if you want. Except of all nsfw, which is exactly what I was using Infinity for. Anyway poor Infinity dev, putting their head into the lion's mouth.

No, because the sudden API lockout of third party apps with yearly subscriptions shows they do not care about contractual obligations.

Not anymore. Not after how much of a shitbag spez has been. Im done.

In all honesty, maybe I would go back if I could pay a few bucks a month to use my own client that didn't show ads.

But that's because there are a few niche communities on Reddit that don't seem to want to migrate anywhere else.

I paid for Reddit Premium. (have cancelled it now).

If the API would be full-featured (so including explicit content) and if I still don't get ads, I wouldn't mind paying a reasonable amount.

At least I would have before their CEO started burning bridges. Right now I'm done with reddit.

They're not getting my eyeballs nor my money anymore.

Not with how the site’s being run now, no

I created an account just to emphatically say NO.

Originally I would have. Like if they made it something reasonable, $1/month for the API access for example. And the app developer could make it a $2-3 a month subscription so they also get funding on top.

The way Reddit has acted though they burned all bridges. I nuked my 11 year old account and overwrote all my comments and posts for that time.

It absolutely makes sense why Reddit is doing this, but it will only get worse from there. This is not about ad-revenue (or it's only a small part of it). Reddit wants to get rid of third party apps for several reasons:

• User data, they can't track you as well and sell your data if you don't use their native apps
• NFTs: Third party apps are similar to old.reddit.com, there are no avatars, limited awards, new Reddit features are often ignored. Can't sell shit in your shop if your users can't see it
• Advertisement: Of course they could have pushed ads over the API, but at this point it's not enough for them
• Censorship: The API is also used for archiving posts, keeping a history of posts and comments and so on. Reddit wants full control over their content

Reddit is already making the mobile browser version of their site unusable (It keeps forcing you to the app, doesn't show some content, doesn't show NSFW and they even made a beta version for a few users that breaks the entire site). They want you on their app. old.reddit.com is next to go, I bet on it, it will take a while but it's 100% at this point.

The whole site is fucked :-/

I would have

Not at this point. I don't want to give bad faith actors my business, and Mr. Huffman has shown himself to be a big ol' penis. At the beginning? With unadulterated access (i.e. NSFW content) and gentler rules for 3rd party apps? Sure, I would have been ok with that.

If it was a few weeks ago, I would be happy to pay 1$/month for RiF. Now I just don't care anymore

I’d be willing to pay for Apollo premium(I should have a while ago) to pay for API costs, but fuck Reddit! Seriously if Apollo/RIF came forward and said “Reddit is going to charge us for API, the price is high but reasonable” I’d have bought Apollo premium to help out, but 20mil? Nah, that’s Reddit crushing competition and fuck them.

I told the Infinity dev that I would pay for access. But I somehow expected a reasonable price. And after the shitshow of the last days I am not interested in Reddit anymore. I think I will pay for a few months because I said so and that it is then.

I would have IF it had been the solution Reddit had came up with in the first place AND they hadn't destroyed my trust in them with their handling of the protests.

I have an issue with your proposed solution though: it does not address the use case of moderation / accessibility / utility tools and bots.

I absolutely would have if things were handled differently, but at this point my only goal is to see spez get his ass fired.

10$ annually to login via api. Not a single cent more.

Now that reddit fucked it up and I've found a nice community, idk.

Probably, yeah. Now I'm less enthusiastic since I don't trust Reddit at all and I'd be only willing to pay as a way to support them.

Initially I would have for like 5€/month I guess. But now, I'll just directly use the browser with ublock when I need something. For scrolling I'll stay here

Maybe if the fediverse didn’t exist.

If we never had all this drama where reddit showed its true colours, I think I probably would have (as an alternative to the API being paid). It is fine by me that reddit has to pay the bills in some way.

But lol, holy shit has reddit been awful in the past few weeks. The way they went about with their changes has been completely disrespectful towards reddit users, third party devs, etc. I don't want to give them any money now. It's almost comical how dumb their actions were in that regard. This isn't the first or only thing I've disliked about reddit, but wow did it blow the others out of the water.

By comparison, I've already donated $20 to kbin, the instance I use. If reddit had treated its users nice, they could have had that money. I have no qualms about paying for my usage. But instead reddit makes me almost want to pay money to see them fail.

No

No. They're allowing more and more spam outside of their ad platform. They're actively user-hostile. I already don't like it for free, why the hell would I want to pay for it?

No reddit is dead to me. Anything that is used by ceos to fuck over the people. Let it burn for all I care.

Actually scratch that. Let it pump to obscene levels and after all those rich riches have bought in. Dump that thing into the Earth's core.

Far too much money and corruption in this world.