The protests worked, and so did moving/editing/deleting our old content. As one person complains,
I’m not here for Reddit, but for the aggregation of niche communities. I follow a lot of obscure manga that have relatively small followings and recently I got into an IT job which opened a lot of technological exploration for me. The worst part about this change isn’t even that we are losing 3rd party apps, but that only members of the communities I frequent are the ones who care enough to protest. Can’t tell you how many times now I’ve looked something up on Reddit and find an answer to the issue I have, only to realize that the community is closed or the post is deleted in protest. Now we are stuck in this limbo where protests seem to have lost their steam, niche communities are being overthrown and killed because of that greedy little pigboy. Seriously, fuck spez.
All this effort to keep one’s content alive… people need to stop claiming it’s for posterity because it is their own ego and nothing else. Sacrifice means everyone including you, and you don’t get to make exceptions; give all the excuses you want - people will find what they need, and you haven’t posted the answer to the riddle of the sphinx don’t flatter yourself. It’s because you don’t want to make the sacrifice you acknowledge everyone should really make; you want the result without your own sacrifice.
But everyone needs to do it - to burn their history - in order for this to mean anything. Frankly, those maintaining their content on Reddit are the shameful ones, I don’t care what excuses they make.