We are two days away from virtually every third-party Reddit app shutting down. Of all the ones that announced their closure, I'm only aware of one that's continuing on a premium subscription model that would allow it to pay Reddit's outrageous API usage fees.

I imagine a good chunk of Reddit are OOTL on what's going on, or haven't comprehended the true gravity of apps like Baconreader, Sync, Reddit Is Fun, Apollo, etc shutting down in two days time.

The exodus to Lemmy is going to intensify over the coming days when more and more people realise what a crock of shit the official Reddit app is. Also if the data stolen from Reddit back in February gets leaked as planned and it contains some truly spicy shit, that's going to speed up the rate of refugees.

I deleted my account and have been actively avoiding reddit since. Not going back, and I am much happier for it.

the time spent on the Reddit website dropped to about 7.16 minutes on the first two days of the protest, down from an average of about 8.40 minutes for other days before that period

8min? rookie numbers... I've used to spend 2h everyday there

good.

I blocked reddit at the router level o prevent any accidental traffic from my network since the blackout. In a few months after the dust has settled, I plan to write a script to edit my posts (slowly at one per minute) to say something else, then go back and erase all posts, one by one. But I'm not doing it now since they appear to have a script preventing people from bulk erasing/deleting posts

That was the point of it.

Sounds like good news to me

Why does this article say they’re headquartered in Israel? Their HQ is in San Francisco. In any case, I’m curious to see how the dust settles on all of this.

That article reminded me to go to the google play store and write a 1 star review of the app. Made a reference to enshittification.