That’s a feature, not a bug.

I scrambled years worth of comments into a statement about the fuckery Reddit has committed and left those edited comments intact while deleting my accounts.

This serves a couple of purposes:

1. Devalue the platform by destroying information, with the explicit hope that it fucks with Google results and that people will leave if enough people salted the earth on their way out
2. Informing people of Reddit’s fuckery

That was a disappointing read.

While I tentatively agree with their stance on “AI”, I expected this to be a protest to change the toxic culture over at SO.

Which includes, but is not exclusive to, the whole “this is a duplicate of <insert question from a decade ago about a completely irrelevant thing and that has become irrelevant even within its respective topic>”, the whole karma based politics and other toxic behavior.

But I guess that’s like expecting congressmen to vote against insider trading by congressmen.

I mean good for them, because platforms these days are exploiting free labor and then completely disregarding the people that provide value to the platform, but also, guys you’ve got some serious other issues that are holding back the quality of the community.

The app was barely monetized (ads and an in app purchase to remove ads).

They stated that they had to remove the ads, which tells me that they did so to be temporarily considered a “non-commercial” app and get a temporary exception.

They’re talking about implementing a subscription for the v2 version but they’ve clearly not figured out a workable price point yet and they’re already stressing over high usage users and charging them an overage fee if they hit a certain usage.

Honestly sounds like it’s going to be a disaster and they’re figuring it out as they go along.