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It's a shame that the CEO started reddits downward spiral. I used to be a heavy use and definitely contributed a lot of technical comments. However, their choic

by tensor 2y ago

It's a shame that the CEO started reddits downward spiral. I used to be a heavy use and definitely contributed a lot of technical comments. However, their choice to cut off people accessing content via the API so that they could both sell access to user data, and kill third party clients to force you to view their ads caused me to delete all my comments and stop using the site. I actually have no problems with anyone using my public comments for training AI or other purposes, that's why I make them public. But changing the contract on me and denying access to my data and instead crow about selling it, while ALSO forcing me to view ads unless I pay a very steep fee? No freaking way. By making reddit "closed" in this way I suspect it will very quickly degrade. Already many communities are gone or vastly less useful due to the better and more knowledgable posters leaving for the same reasons.

hightrix 2y ago
> By making reddit "closed" in this way I suspect it will very quickly degrade. It already has. The time around the protests about the API closure saw many new subreddits rise drastically in popularity and many of these new subreddits are entirely rage-bait. The "fun and funny" front page has been replaced by "enraging and infuriating" content. You can feel the tone of comments has shifted, similar to the shift that happened in 2016 when Bernie lost. Additionally, the amount of "viral advertising" has drastically increased. There are multiple posts, daily, with 5 figure vote totals that are simply ads disguised as posts. Reddit's space is ripe for disruption. The next time money is free, I expect some big pockets to challenge reddit.