I was sort of holding on to hope, that something would change. Unfortunately, nothing did and so, here I am.

I’m really liking kbin so far, so I’m looking forward to spending more time with you all over here. ❤️

e: spelling

  • Helldiver_M@kbin.social
    24·
    1 year ago

    I was holding onto my account as well. That was until just a few minutes ago. I was browsing /r/all to see if there was any remaining discussion on the API shutting down. I only came across a couple of threads, all of which, to varying degrees, misrepresented what is going on. Comments making lite of the impact of 3rd party apps dying, and completely ignoring the fact that the owner of Reddit is acting with complete disrespect towards those who made the platform what it is today.

    At that moment, I didn’t give a shit about my account anymore. Are there bots astroturfing the comment section? Maybe. Are there users who are acting a little smug because they don’t feel negatively impacted at all yet? Probably. Whatever. They can have whatever is left of the site.

    I’m not going to stand for this. It feels like in life, there are so many bad things that happen that we have no control over. This is something I have 100% control over. It’s so simple, just never go on Reddit again.

    It was never about Reddit in the first place. It was just about hopping onto a forum and talking about games, current events, memes, comics, art, cats, etc. If /u/Spez and his ilk are going to be so disrespectful towards those who want to facilitate said forum, then I’ll find another one immediately.

    • cupcakes@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I was never on Reddit because it’s Reddit. It’s because that’s what replaced the insane number of forums I was an active user on.

      Anything else that can provide me that however they want is where I’m gonna just go to for enjoyment. I am going to be bummed about no 3PA but simple mobile UI is enough to cater to me too lol.

      My Reddit account is almost 13 years old, shame it ended this way. I didn’t delete it yet but all comments got edited.

    • Raevyn@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s definitely more about the community than the actual site, that’s for sure. I haven’t been back on since Apollo dropped earlier tonight. Honestly not surprised that there are users being so crappy. They may not feel the impact now, but they will. And it will be interesting to watch the fallout from afar, and also to see how places like Kbin and Lemmy grow.

    • gezijtzelf@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I had the same feeling. It was a lot tougher for me to abandon reddit than Twitter, but ultimately I bit the bullet. I didn’t delete my account but replaced all content with a message about the change. Hope it stays up 🤞

    • rckclmbr@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yep. Reddit is basically Digg now. I’m actually excited to start new. I just hope we can get past the “we just hate reddit” phase and build a community talking about real things