Probably a lot of these posts coming, but here’s mine.
Just deleted and exported all of my Reddit comments/posts and exported them (hey, I’m old and can experience bouts of nostalgia.) If Reddit as a company cannot respect their users, then a user I will no longer be. Normally such things don’t bother me. For profit companies are always behave as scumbags. We’re their product and if the product doesn’t behave, then it gets put into its place. That is what I have been seeing the past couple of months.
What finally did it for me, to jump ship, as the way the Admins started treating the Mods. People that actually grew and put in the effort to grow the various subreddits. You know, the people that actually did the work to produce the product Reddit, as a company, is trying to sell. It is not surprising that Reddit’s management is so clueless. They want to make money, but the product they are trying to sell… Was built by someone else… FOR FREE. The Reddit execs think they have tons of content advertisers would love, when all they really have is a platform, which OTHER PEOPLE built content on. Advertisers don’t care about the platform, there are tons of those out there. The advertisers are only interested in the content that will draw people to look at their ads.
My prediction is that the Reddit IPO will be successful, but as a company it will outlast the IPO about 3 years.
Sometimes things are not about money and it astounds me the number of people that just don’t understand that fact.
Welcome to the club!
For me, it was tough to let go after 11 years, but I feel a hankering for the old days of PHPbb forums and how nothing was centralised. Most of all, it feels good to push back against rampant capitalism, even by a tiny amount.
100% on the same boat. Loved it, hated to leave it, but capitalized ruins everything around me. The enshittification of everything. But on the bright side, here comes Lemmy!