Why I left mine intact. The Reddit “library,” as it were, remains one of the largest and most significant public goods online. I think that’s more important than burning my contributions in the hopes that Reddit management will do a 180. I also pinned a post advertising kbin/lemmy and Squabbles on my profile.
I’m certainly no longer participating, however, and I don’t think Reddit’s built to survive only on visitors from Google.
More than half of my personal follows on Twitter are enthusiastically jumping over. I don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter these days, so maybe I hadn’t realized it was bad enough to send people running happily into the arms of Meta.
It still makes sense if Reddit’s negotiation with the subscription-based third-party apps was never in good faith and this was always about killing them.
They had better be. The mods at the larger subreddits clearly aren’t safe as long as Reddit is this profit-driven. If it helps their bottom line, they will step in and reorganize mod teams one at a time.
Zero chance this would pay better than even something like Mturk.
And yet, content quality on Reddit will tank even further because people will shitpost for pennies.