I’ve never been sentimental about a social media site but it’s sad for me to see reddit so clearly killing itself. Pushshift is already banned and Apollo is soon to follow. Reddit will either pivot fully to a mainstream audience or die out. It’s just sad for me to see it doing it to itself.
Yes and no, I loved reddit’s simplicity and compatibility with third-party applications. There was basically a subreddit for everything.
My feelings about reddit started to change when they implemented the new reddit frontend. Another change was that some big subreddits have mods who are on a power trip - so a simple discussion was impossible. Now they have taken away my favorite application - Apollo.
I’m pretty sure reddit will survive, but with worse content anyway, because reddit as a business doesn’t care about quality of content, they only care about engagement.
On the other hand, I’m “happy” reddit did what they did, and because such a decision to limit the API or introduce nonsense only promotes the development of a federated and decentralized social internet. It reminds me of the “old internet”, which I miss a lot, and I’m very happy to see its revival and people using it.