[louis rossman] What pisses me off about the failed Reddit protest... [Thumbnail Text: Reddit is Winning.]

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What pisses me off about the failed Reddit protest...
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My first account was 14 years ago. Every year or so, I switch to a new account. I nuked every single account I had: nuked the comments, nuked the submissions, just over-wrote then deleted everything. I privated the tiny handful of small communities I modded, turned over the keys in a couple of them, and de-modded myself. I unsubscribed from every single subreddit I was part of.

I found some worthy comments and spent all the reddit coins I'd accumulated from when other people gave me gold. I went through every saved comment and saved it (in context) offline. I PM'd a handful of people my email address, wrapped up a couple of "oh, I'll get that to you later"s, and ... just walked away.

14 years, 17 accounts. My "smallest" account had about 140k karma; my largest over 440k. Probably a couple million between all of them.

I'm done with reddit, I'm gone. I'm not going to fool myself that I'll be missed there but, given my accumulated karma, I think the loss of some of my contributions (I mostly hung out in news and science subs) will make the site a little less useful to the people still there. Enshittification, indeed.

Obligatory fuck spez inserted.

Every comment and submission deleted is just a tiny bit of value taken away from the site. I did my part, too!

It's why I unsubbed everywhere as well, I don't want my zombie accounts used to inflate reddit's statistics.

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