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This is just the latest in a cycle of wash-rinse-repeat reddit protests over the last 13 years.
I joined the year it opened up and had the same account until '10. I came back about '13 or '14 but came and went several times after that, I had no attachment to the new accounts I made by this point. The difference was those times I always deleted posts and comments after 24 hours regardless, disabled replies, stopped responding to those that got through, blocked any user that tried to message me, used old. and several filters/ad blockers. This latest episode crossed my tedium threshold and I deactivated my account when the latest round of WRR protests were announced. I won’t be back this time. I was also an early user on Digg and left in '10 and quite frankly I had forgotten Digg was a thing until I saw it mentioned in the latest reddit drama coverage. I’m pretty sure I’ll get reminded reddit still exists periodically when the next and following user-unfriendly policy protests make the news again.
Been on Reddit a long time and feel this one is different. Not because it's worse, or makes more people more upset, but because all those other times moderators still slightly trusted admins to not completely sabotage their own site. This time all goodwill has been definitively trashed. Above-and-beyond type extraordinary efforts to maintain communities like with IAmA and AskHistorians look to be going away forever, so are people maintaining tools to have a chance at handling spam etc.
Nobody wants to work for Reddit for free anymore.