I’m considering rewriting all of my comments, but I want to do this carefully and correctly because I’d eventually want to delete the account, so I wouldn’t be able to make changes
I want to keep it short and sweet, but be informative, make very good points, and hopefully persuade any user to try out the fediverse
What did you guys change yours to? I’m thinking something along the lines of this:
This comment has been rewritten so that its’ content is removed. On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price to make calls to their API from being free to a level that will kill every third party app on Reddit. This hurts many types of users, and the way that the CEO has handled the situation is not right at all. Reddit is another victim of pure corporate greed.
Some may not consider this important to them, but for anyone who sees this, I strongly encourage you to join the fediverse. It will be confusing at first, but it is very welcoming :) Alternative platforms:
I feel like it’s too wordy (I tend to ramble). I’m trying to find compact “elegantly worded” reasons about what’s going on and why it’s wrong, with links of good posts, but a lot of that is on reddit. Can you guys help a bro out?
Remember though that in this process, you are helping reddit make money. Folks using google to find those answers on reddit will view it on reddit and feed their ads traffic.
If you can accept that, then i’m cool with it too. After all, it is your content.
But a lot of us, we still want to have this archive up. Just not on reddit itself. Some folks archive the reddit posts on the internet archive or ghost archive. So google searches will still find the answer, but will direct folks to some other side and reddit won’t get the views.
Reddit redesign is all made to try and trap people who enter it without an account. It doesn’t expand all the way down so leads you searching for the answer, and then has bunch of recommended posts and threads trying to get people to do one more click to not leave the site. Also pop up to install the app on mobile which has bunch of permissions to extract more data to resell. Reddit is becoming Facebook, so continuing to fuel the value of it doesn’t seem like a good idea for the long term if Reddit does become a juggernaut.
After all, people laughed when Facebook’s phone flopped. Now they got stuff like WhatsApp that some countries can’t go without.
Ugh yes, and when they did that, it ruined one of the best things about reddit; the fact that it didn’t have shit like that.
It’s amazing what people will destroy for a few bucks.
This makes me just want to erase the comments from reddit entirely. To avoid getting users trapped into reddit like this. Better to make them search harder and find the answers outside of reddit.