Simple question: Will you go back to Reddit and other centralized social media platforms, if Reddit step back from the API changes? The benefits of Reddit are obvisiouly, it has million of users and even small communitys have thousands of users.
For me it's pretty clear, after deleting my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Discord accounts, the decentraliced Fediverse is my future in social media. Even with an very much smaller community, i'm not willing to be treated as ad-cow for the big corps.
But what do you think about your future in social media? Fediverse or Reddit, Meta, Google and all the others? Or will you go safe and use both, to have an backup option?
(Image by Alan Frijns from Pixabay)
I might still google "[question] reddit" when looking for how to do things, and there a couple of subs I'll check for that kind of purpose, but I've already stopped actively contributing to the site and have edited and deleted most of my comments (at least the ones shown on my profile, reddit doesn't show all of them - need to find a way to automate editing + deleting from the GDPR CSV files).
Hopefully Lemmy will grow and take over to fill the reddit knowledge gap.
What's more, they've blocked old reddit if you're not logged in. Now it either redirects to new reddit or you get a "you broke reddit" error page. It won't be long before they block old reddit for existing users, I reckon.
For me the old reddit still works and I don't have an account anymore.
Yeah I'm not sure now. It's definitely the case for me - it was working last night, then this morning it fails. However logged in it does work.
I kind of feel like they're doing a google and rolling out the change gradually across different regions.
Edit: Nevermind, it's working again now.