# finally getting off of reddit
November 12, 2021

Fuck it I'm done with reddit once and for all.  Since 2014 and
before they've made a steady stream of decisions and changes that I
ethically and ideologically disagree with.  I've been dissatisfied
with the general reddit community in general as well, anyone
remember "we did it reddit!"?  They are stationing themselves to
somehow be even worse than the other major social media sites, and
at the very least it's filled with even more spam somehow.

I'm off twitter other than a few people I follow via my
BirdsiteLIVE instance, and I've never even been on any of the other
cancerous social media sites.  Even for reddit all I've done lately
is look at cute animal pictures and follow a few communities.  I've
either found alternatives or I'll just live without them.

My animal a day posts will continue being available on reddit as
well as on all the other places.  However, the reddit part of
posting will be totally unmonitored from now on, it will probably
post for a while but if they fuck the API or it hits the spam
filter for the sixth time then too bad, so sad; I'm not fixing it.

There's plenty of alternative options to view the animal a day
posts:
Cheetah a Day on my website and Gemini capsule:
//nytpu.com/cheetahs/
Cheetah a Day on the Fediverse:
https://botsin.space/@Cheetah_a_Day
Cheetah a Day RSS feed:
https://botsin.space/users/cheetah_a_day.rss

Snow Leopard a Day on my website and Gemini capsule:
//nytpu.com/sneps/
Snow Leopard a day on the Fediverse:
https://botsin.space/@Snow_Leopard_a_Day
Snow Leopard a Day RSS feed:
https://botsin.space/users/snow_leopard_a_day.rss

I'm not hopeful for the reddit API considering how all the other
walled gardens have started treating their APIs:
Third-party twitter apps strangled by the twitter API:
https://wallabag.nytpu.com/share/618e83595ff494.38647403
discord's horrible shit for API developers:
https://gist.github.com/Rapptz/4a2f62751b9600a31a0d3c78100287f1


I was going to write a massive rant but I can't even be bothered to
give reddit that much effort any more, here's a link dump.

TechCrunch September 30, 2014 — Reddit Plans Its Own Cryptocurrency
To Give Back To Its Users After $50 Million Raise:
https://wallabag.nytpu.com/share/618e82b34fa906.37294273

When reddit went closed source, you could tell exactly what they
were going to start doing.:
https://old.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update_on_the_state_of_the_redditreddit_and/

reddit introduces native video ads:
https://www.redditinc.com/blog/native-video-ads-are-here/

reddit's shitty UI on mobile and when logged out manages to rival
that of twitter somehow.:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16865105

Bullshit cryptocurrency decentralized "better internet" claims:
https://merveilles.town/@freedcreative/107226648767523123
Archive of tweet since it was deleted:
https://archive.md/w7Wd1
I've got bad news for reddit, decentralized forums have existed
since before the internet even existed!  It's existed since before
the crypto assholes were even born!:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
Oh yeah and decentralized social networking is still alive and well
today (and Usenet still exists too, it's just small):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
Here's a list of FREE AND OPEN SOURCE decentralized social
networking software:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking
The web of Fediverse software.  Note that there isn't one company
with investors that controls the single proprietary implementation
like reddit's vision.:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How-the-Fediverse-connects.jpg


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