Gonna don my tinfoil hat here for a second…

Was the monetization of the API a deliberate move to kick out the progressive and tech-literate long-time reddit users (myself included, with 16 year badge and centuryclub), to in turn make the site more of a Nazi, pro-Trump circle jerk?

Because I really think it succeeded. The whole atmosphere shifted that day, and I’ve barely been back except when I end up there out of muscle memory or a Google result…and those often have the best answers removed by someone who went through and scrubbed their account.

We all remember how Spez treated r/thedonald, right?

Same…though it seems to do some weird stuff like not marking DMs read, or not having an easy way to embed a photo that’s already hosted somewhere (and my instance seems a bit conservative with size limits).

Still, it’s a solid app, and the only way I interacted with reddit.