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Personally, I feel like nothing happened to Reddit. Communities that I visit are pretty much what they were before Reddit changed its API policies.

However, there's a subreddit for reddit alternatives (r/RedditAlternative) if you're curious :)) Lemmy and lobsters are the dominant ones in my mind.

For HNews? Probably https://diff.blog/ would be one of the alternatives. I must say, if reddit goes dark today, I'd be sad, but if hnews goes dark today (and forever), I'd be pretty devastated.

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The numerical value of "people on reddit" didn't changes, however the active posters and creative people started migrating to other networks(e.g. Lemmy). The larger subs(100k+) quality has declined from 2022, you can see lots of clickbait and facebook-like sensationalization/drama,even in serious subreddits content becoming more shallow. Its not like Digg pissing off everyone, mobile posters are perfectly content with consuming reddit but content creators have declined in numbers. See https://subredditstats.com/ (Comments per day, Posts per day)

Content mostly didn't change, but the value of Reddit tanked, I often encounter links to Reddit that are now deleted, and I'm also nowadays deleting my old (2 weeks) comments and posts.

Feels like content did change to me. Hard to place but almost like some key contributors left and avg IQ dropped a couple points as a result

It probably heavily depends on the sub. No real changes for those I care about.

> I'm also nowadays deleting my old (2 weeks) comments and posts

But why?

Because I don’t want to support the long-term value of an antagonistic provider.

That's a fundamentally misguided attitude.

Removing your posts only annoys and inconveniences actual people by breaking threads, convos and destroying the context. It does zilch to Reddit as a corporation.

No need to be an ass towards fellow users, it's not their fault Reddit now rubs you the wrong way. Either don't post at all or leave it be.

Alas, I’ll have to disagree with you.

By annoying regular users you tank the value of the hostile corporation.

It's the same flawed logic used to justify that sanctions on the people of a country would cause a regime change from within but that rarely works.

It would only work if there would be another alternative for those users to go to. Currently there hasn't been a popular move from reddit to somewhere else. So no, you're just annoying users but without harming reddit.

Deleting content does more than zilch. Searching Reddit via Google having become less reliable made the press some time ago.

>Because I don’t want to support the long-term value of an antagonistic provider.

Such a terrible take. You're not hurting Reddit's bottom line with this, you're hurting the users looking for answers.

Great time to start using different sources

Great idea. Where are you posting the advice you deleted now, so I can go there?

> I'm also nowadays deleting my old (2 weeks) comments and posts.

Won't this just exacerbate the "I often encounter links to Reddit that are now deleted" problem?

Agreed. There are what feels like a ton of [deleted] posts and comments now.

Same, not seeing any change, and according to analytics sites and Google Trends, Reddit's popularity has only been on the rise.

> Probably https://diff.blog/ would be one of the alternatives.

Requires a GitHub account to post. Why are site owners like this?

One change I've noticed, and this has nothing to do with API changes, is that Redditors now take comments at face-value, even when they're farcically sarcastic.

Unless you tag the comment (e.g. /s), people's default is to assume they're typing back and forth with literally history's greatest monster. And their goal is to proudly and publicly expose this monster for internet points.

The weird thing is they really do get internet points for being oblivious to flippant sarcasm.

I wonder if this is an "Eternal September" problem, or if mass internet culture has permanently shifted.

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