The final nail in Reddit's coffin dropped today:

Dear User,

We will soon begin rolling out changes to Reddit’s User settings. It is getting a refresh that includes changes to ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings.

As part of these changes, we are retiring a setting that you have previously turned on that limited how we used your activity from the Reddit platform to personalize ads. We have replaced the setting with a new option to select categories of ads that you may not wish to see.

More details are available in our announcement and help center.

These changes are rolling out starting today and you may see the changes over the next few days.

Users will be tracked with no opt out. Posts may be monetized, which will make content even worse No refund or any type of usable credit for users that spent hundreds on Reddit coins The entire vibe has done a 180° since all these new “positive changes” are rolled out.

BlueCrystalFlame,

Hi, just made this account after reading that. Fuck Reddit fuck Spez

Blaze,
@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Welcome!

ohlaph,

Welcome. Tell your friends!!

imeow_allday,

Wonderful

Rearsays,

This place won’t really win out as long as it’s exclusively just a big giant liberal communist fuck fest it has to be balanced or else it will never gain traction.

S_204,

Go to Truth social for the balance YOU are looking for, fasci.

Rearsays,

I like that you can’t differentiate speculation from your delusion

S_204,

I like that you’re a fasci loser. It’s cute.

Rearsays,

that’s okay we can both misunderstand reality I’m sure for our own reasons and that’s a beautiful thing.

S_204,

You’re so close to acknowledging you’re absolutely stupidity it’s almost cute. Selfawarewolves should become a thing here.

buzz,
@buzz@lemmy.world avatar

Guys its not enough to delete your account, you have to bring other users with u

AJB_l4u,

they banned me and ghost me also, no chance to get friends ;) but yes

flathead,

not all of them.

christophski,

This is just the continuation of the instagrammification if reddit. They want to turn it into a influencer platform where people are desperately trying to make money so that they can take a big cut of it.

mojo,

We all know they’re still not going to leave. Also lol those people buying Reddit coins can get fucked.

Jumi,

Just deleted my account

H2207,
@H2207@lemmy.world avatar

About to go do the same, I still can’t believe how hard they fell.

Jumi,

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

shyguyblue,

How can we help improve Reddit? Fuck Spez

Jumi,

I told them the same

dirtbiker509,

On my to do list for today. Did you submit a formal CCPA delete request? Or just log in and delete?

Jumi,

I just logged in and deleted. I’m not even sure if CCPA has relevance for me as European.

dirtbiker509,

It technically doesn’t apply to you, but it totally does. They don’t have any way to validate who you are or where you’re from. So CCPA gave everyone the protection. Just ask and they have to delete the data.

Dmtr33d,

It just reminded me to as well, I was reluctant after 13 years but they can fuck off!

Haui,
@Haui@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

As a mod on reddit (who only reacts to pings these days) I would like to post an undramatic message „here‘s what happened, if you‘re interested to join our lemmy mirror, here‘s the link.“

Anyone got something I could use which will not set off reddit stans or get me replaced and the message deleted?

DrQuint,

I found that the best approach is to just have the link in the sidebar. This was how several communities first started introducing discords when it was basically an unknown piece of software. It became normalized without anyone noticing when.

Haui,
@Haui@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Thats what I did already. I might just leave it at that then. Thanks for the suggestion though. :)

co209,

It’s not the end of the world, it’s the end of the world as we know it.

Reddit is becoming a harsher place for the kind of community-driven, higher investment content that made it what it is today (which is less profitable) and a better place for mindless scrolling and sleazy engagement-baiting mostly fed by automatic content aggregators (which is more profitable).

Plenty of communities will remain due to inertia: switching platforms is hard. As far as I’m concerned, I will keep using reddit for two reasons: and to check in on a few communities that I am actually engaged in.

Selmafudd,

Reddit is shit and not being able to opt out of being tracked is shit but honestly if you can choose to block gambling ads etc that’s actually pretty good

hiramfromthechi,
@hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world avatar

If you wanna keep your bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) that you’re subscribed to before deleting your Reddit account, I made a free tool to help you store and offload that data.

It’s called Reddit Account Manager, and it’s 100% free.

You can also use it to manage your Lemmy account(s), of course.

detalferous,

Thanks for such an awesome trip!

Users can also use Redact to delete their data, and then delete their reddit account

old.reddit.com/r/…/reddit_seppuku_how_to/

hiramfromthechi,
@hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world avatar

Yep, the ideal workflow for migrating would be something like this:

  1. Use Reddit Account Manager to neatly organize and store your Reddit accounts, bookmarks, and subscriptions
  2. Request your data archive from Reddit itself
  3. Use something like Redact or Power Delete Suite to remove your content from Reddit
  4. Permanently delete your accounts from Reddit
  5. Move to a federated alternative (optional)
noodlejetski,

how do I get it without giving away my email address to some random website?

Amends1782,

You should be using an email forwarding/alias service such as SimpleLogin, or apples proprietary hide my email service for example. You can have an infinite amount of alias emails that all forward to your main, and have 100% control over.

The other option is older school, just make another account somewhere. You can also create automated rules to just forward all emails from their to your main too.

noodlejetski,

sure, but people could also host their freeware in a way that doesn’t require me to do any of those.

hiramfromthechi,
@hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world avatar

I’d open source it if I could, but since Reddit Account Manager is built without code, I can’t host it on GitLab or GitHub.

Amends1782,

I agree, but your question wasn’t phrased that way :p

noodlejetski,

sigh because sometimes instead of telling someone “it sucks that in order to get that one piece of software from your website you make me create an account despite me never going to visit it again”, you can phrase it a bit more politely and hope that they, you know, figure out the intent behind the question rather than take it so incredibly literally.

hiramfromthechi,
@hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world avatar

You could use a service like SimpleLogin, Addy, Duck, or just a temporary fake email generator. I don’t mind if you give me a fake email address—you have a right to privacy.

If it helps, my website’s hiram.io. I realize that’s still “random” in the grand scheme of things, but it should at least show you I’m a real person, and I build stuff to build a better web.

Mango,

Can I use this with Android?

hiramfromthechi,
@hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world avatar

Your question’s a little nuanced, so let me try to answer this as thoroughly as possible:

The short answer is: If the platform you choose to use it is accessible from your Android phone, then yes. But it’s not Android- or iOS-specific.

Out of the platforms that it’s available on (Airtable, Notion, Coda, ClickUp, and Baserow), all of them except for Baserow have native mobile apps. With that said, Baserow is also mobile responsive, so you don’t need a native mobile app to work with Reddit Account Manager.

  • Reddit Account Manager is a template built on top of those tools (Airtable, Notion, Coda, ClickUp, and Baserow), so you’ll need an account with at least one of those to use it.
  • Reddit Account Manager is built without code.

Hope that clears things up. :)

Mango,

Uhh yeah that didn’t clear things up.

I don’t have a computer and I want all my Reddit content deleted without having to do manual labor for the next several months.

Rai,

refunds for people who spent memory on Reddit coins

Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhh all of your points are valid but if anyone ever spent money on coins, it’s all in the trash anyway

Apollo let me turn awards off and it was one of the best features. So much cleaner.

ikidd,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

So what’s the current method for overwriting and removing comments before account deletion?

skillissuer,
@skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

you underestimate people’s complacency and inertia, in no way this is end of reddit

wilberfan,
@wilberfan@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly.

DrQuint,

Yeah, people think tracking you for ads will dissuade anyone? Like, Instagram has a content to ad ratio of 33%, and people give zero fucks.

I don’t think people will ever leave, and I don’t think we should want them to leave either. We can build better, smaller platforms much more easily than we can’t fix the world’s attitude and consumption trends towards the large ones.

JokeDeity,

I mean, having some users isn’t the same as having a ton of users using the product for hours a day. They can still say people are using it, but it’s far from how it used to be (actually goes for Instagram and Facebook as well). There will always be people still using them, but for less time and getting less enjoyment out of it. The majority of users will not use it much at all, only out of some sense of necessity. Instagram and Facebook are literally unusable in my opinion due to ads and sponsored content, most people I know that used to spend hours on those two sites now barely use them at all, and that’s the direction Reddit wants to head in.

WarmSoda,

Sucks to suck.

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