Seconded, sibling-in-arms!
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So the reason r/bind has already jumped to an alternative is because they are affected the most and the hardest.
The other kind of communities today that you mentioned are less impacted, so they can continue .. for now.
I do hope though that the right groups of people are looking into creating the better alternatives right now. The day may come when reddit decides these subs are too much of a liability - or even just not enough of a money maker - and yanks them. And there's no reason to believe that reddit would give them even as much warning as r/blind had.
Emphasizing not a suggestion to move right away, but make sure these places can start establishing backups so they don't exist solely at the whim of reddit.
What's safereddit and how will it continue working past the API deadline?
Good on them for taking a stance!
Teddit link to avoid paying for reddit ads: https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/ModCoord/comments/14kn2fo/call_to_action_renewed_protests_starting_on_july/
There are some high quality forms out there. G really needs to hook into these forums and the fediverse if they need to replace the reddit content.
The reddit thing was even described as a "hack" to google search iirc
Hey, feel free to join us over on https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/85486/Permaban-roll-call !
Also, let me know if you see this kind of weirdness after you have deleted your account proper, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/91322/Post-ban-and-deletion-weirdness (remember that your account still exists even if permabanned, until you delete it outright).
I don't think the scraping is the full reason. I was not on lemmy/kbin or any other part of the fediverse and I still got this random permaban, in fact it happened before the pricing changes were announced on May 31st.
Also, my username there is different to what I'm using on the fediverse.
Prior to being permabanned I also never used the API for anything. Only used it for the scripts to wipe my account clean (so being permabanned doesn't typically prevent one from creating the API tokens or actually using the API, it seems).
Sadly this means that one must still go through the trouble to manually delete all posts and comments (or use a good tool like shreddit to automate this, see https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/65260/PSA-Here-s-exactly-what-to-do-if-you-hit-the ) and then still delete the account in reddit settings.
Accounts with 100,000+ karma are $200 and up, apparently. Source: savingadvice dot com /articles/2023/05/31/1089629_sell-your-reddit-account.html
On playerup dot com /acconts/redditacconut/ I see one "rare account" that's 13 years old going for $120 and a 14 year old one for $150
Most are a few years old, just barely a few thousand karma, and $17-25.