Ask HN: Are you going back to Reddit post-blackout?

Mod for a medium-ish sub here. We’re burning the sub down and leaving after the announcement today that they will start forcibly removing mods. We haven’t told our community but frankly we don’t care anymore. If Reddit wants control back so badly, they can remember what it was like when we weren’t around. I’m sure they will have backups or something they can restore, I’m not quite as technically-minded as most of HN is, but we’re at least going to make them put in some effort for once.

I couldn't resist opening up Apollo lol

No. I'll miss a couple of things, but the time I used to spend there wasn't wasted, but it would be from now.

Well done Reddit - thanks for breaking a habit. A shop near me recently made some changes, so I went through the nightmare of trying a different place each shopping trip - still not found one I like, but I've now turned it into a game - now many habits can I break.

Quite a few and somewhat easily, it would appear.

Yes, I never stopped visiting. Some of the smaller communities I follow never went dark. I uninstalled Apollo a couple weeks back and switched to the official Reddit app on iPad and iPhone.

I like Reddit’s content enough to put up with an app that’s OK but a little odd sometimes. I pay the $60 a year or whatever to avoid ads and it’s a fair enough price.

I just nuked my Reddit account of 15 years.I won't make another account and have moved over to a combination of lemmy,mastodon,squabbles and shit that works.I feel sad and will miss my communities but I hate the direction Reddit has been going for a while now and the apollo thing was the last straw.Not going back.

A bit but I set up my own instance that I will use instead. Hoping to get more people to join my instance.

Last week, I nuked my Reddit account of 6 years, and uninstalled Apollo. Won’t be going back.

I’d be on Reddit several times a day - it was a complete time waste. I just needed a reason to leave, and this is it.

I was already on Mastodon but now find myself there a lot more.

I've been on Reddit since near its inception after getting funded by YC, I've seen all the drama that has gone through in the last 17 years. This drama is no different, and I will continue to use the site.

Not as a participant, unfortunately. At the end of the month, rif will stop working and reddit will effectively end for me. I'll still use it for Google searches where I can.

No.