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Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I left a couple of months ago. Couldn't be happier.

The writing is on the wall. The leader thinks the Genius-with-hair-transplants is a superstar, despite destroying a globally recognised brand. Inspired by this, Spez is trying to get Reddit ready for an IPO. This means, maximise profits by any means.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you wanna keep your bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) that you're subscribed to before deleting your account, I made a free tool to help you store and offload that data.

It's called Reddit Account Manager, and it's 100% free.

You can also use it to manage your Lemmy account(s), of course.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for posting the link, just saw this news and decided to finally jump ship. Between this and Reddit wanting to pay for use it’s high time I leave it.

Isn’t there something that scrapes posts from Reddit like a newsfeed? Or do most people just use lemmy.world now?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Isn’t there something that scrapes posts from Reddit like a newsfeed?

If you got an Android, there's Stealth. On iOS, you're SOL as far as I know.

Or do most people just use lemmy.world now?

This would be the best avenue, yeah. I thought it was gonna be difficult to leave Reddit too, but thankfully, I was wrong.