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They really managed to fuck up every step along the way, even the final one.

The "plus" in the statement is putting in some work.

Don't you need a paid version of Apollo...

I'm on Android using Sync, so I'm afraid I have no idea.

so aren't high value users for reddit

I'm going to have to disagree with that point. I don't see ads, but I have disposable income and am willing to pay for a good experience. Unfortunately, reddit's official app is miserable to use, and if I'm dealing with a buggy experience, I'd rather be here.

There's probably some number of those users that 'll stop posting in a week when their apps stop working. I can only speak for me, but I probably won't be bored of Mr. Oliver yet will definitely stop contributing to traffic.

Flashback to a decade ago when people were complaining at reddit posts for leaving the 9gag watermark.

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

Yeah, much of my comments/posts were technical support stuff for specific software vendor subreddits. I've created accounts on three different official forums hosted by these vendors this week. They're not nearly as widely used as reddit now, but hopefully as the useful content moves, so will the people that need it.

you are a person with different opinions, and not the enemy

This is the mindset that's bothered me the most, seems to be growing over time, and is what I meant when I mentioned contrarian accounts/bots. Seems like it stemmed from political subreddits, but it's everywhere and about everything now. Even related to the api changes, I've had people reply to me with totally asinine things like defending forcing ads on users (even paid users) and how blind people don't need special consideration because their screen readers should be able to scrape the website, and it's their problem not reddit's if they can't.

So much ridiculous hostility and dehumanizing over such dumb shit.

Is there actually a particular rule against turning SFW subs into NSFW subs?

No, and historically it's been the admins' stance that it's up to the mods to determine what is an acceptable level within the sub. They're absolutely just making up the shit as they go and trying to retroactively justify their impulsive actions after the fact.

I wonder how many people were hanging around hoping to cash out after the IPO and are realizing it's not going to go as well as they thought because they're being led by spiteful idiots.

At this point with this whole Kbin/Lemmy/Threadiverse-era on the horizon, I'm actually excited.

Same. People always opine about how reddit was better X years ago, but it really was. Over the past dozen years, I've gradually unsubscribed from every default sub and most larger ones. They always turn into meme-factory shitholes full of puns, recycled one-liners, and totally irrational explanations why you're wrong (many of these seem to come from intentional contrarian accounts/bots). There's a demand for that stuff, sure, but it's gotten harder and harder to find sincere, thoughtful comments.

I'm planning to delete my reddit account next week, but already finding myself coming here more frequently because the quality of the interactions is better. I can't recall the last time I received a comment there with as much time/effort as the one I'm replying to right now.

Yeah, the angry irrational reactions show that all the talk about the protests just being noise was a bluff. It might have blown over, but it hasn't exactly because it got a reaction.