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Unfortunately Reddit is almost too big at this point to fail. The fact that official communities exist over there is enough to keep them afloat. But Reddit as we all knew it is dead. I was always worried about Reddit going public effecting it’s quality, and the staff have only confirmed my fears. Luckily Reddit offers nothing anyone else can do, and jumping ship to a competitor had never been easier.
Long live the Fediverse.
Digg is still around too, after all.
Heck, so are Slashdot, Fark, and Usenet.
Reddit doesn't need to "die" in order for something better to come along.
Digg's still around, and still active... One of the posts today had a staggering 5 comments in just 7 hours! Must be the influx of displaced reddit users lol
Tough to disagree, hopefully long term users decide to gtfo before it gets even worse.
12+ years here, deleted my account 2days ago. fuck @spez@reddit.com
Hell yeah! I'm too much of a hoarder to delete mine, but the only interactions I will ever have on that app will be telling people to try lemmy.
I believe you can also back up your reddit comments and posts with Power Delete Suite before the 30th, just be sure not to click the delete or modify post options if you don't want to do that
RiF gave me an option to export data, gonna check that out too. I was against wiping my account at first, but the more I think about the more I'm tempted. It knows a lot about me if you were to actually analyze it.
Idk I tried archiving it but sonehow it didn't work.
Just zeroed mine a few hours ago. I doubt it'll make a difference in the grand scheme of things but it makes it harder to go back. Now that I don't have a login I don't see my own frontpage so that should be a good enough reminder.
I saw a comment making the good point that Reddit doesn't have that thing which locks people into other social software - your friends using it, i.e. it doesn't matter that some people will still use Reddit, you go for the content not the people. The Reddit management seem to think that they have something special, ignoring that there will likely be a measurable disappearance of content due to these changes. While this won't "kill" Reddit, in ten years or so when someone's writing a blog post called "what happened to Reddit?", this event will probably be noted as one of those turning points that was the beginning of the end. Reddit will live on, but it won't be the same beast that most of us actually liked using.