Never forget what made sites like Reddit popular in the first place. That can always be rebuilt. Reddit can die without it meaning we have to give up what Reddit was.

Ending the public API also prevents reddit users from deleting their post history without manually removing each post.

If you want to scrub your post history and prevent reddit from profiting from your input, use Power Delete Suite while you still can.

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

It is unlikely that reddit allows users to delete their content from the backend but this at least keeps your posts out of search results, which is a large part of their value.

I mean reddit was just the domain name where real people shared that info. The real people who want to share knowledge are still out there, just wont be on reddit much longer.

This. It was a golden age of information and community availability, and it's going to be hard to put that back together. Especially since the prior eras of distributed sites, we had functioning search engines.

And yeah, sure, it can be rebuilt... but there's going to be a long time of awful isolation until it is.

People said that about Digg 15 years ago.

Things come and go, people make solutions

Yeah, I also find a lot of my most useful and specific web searches take me to reddit. Unfortunately, I don't see a solution. Hopefully a similar depth of information will start to accrue here, but if it happens it'll happen slowly. And it's hard to search.

People forget that before reddit became the default for this stuff, Quora and Yahoo Answers filled the same niche

How are you guys gonna cope with this? What do you intend to do in the future I mean.

Books and that kind of stuff, for some of that. Most of the useful information on health, nutrition, sports and the like came from people because it came from books (that people read).

For the rest, hope that more people to community bootstrap.

Reddit bridged so many understanding gaps for me while i was in my early 20s things you could never talk about in real life. It was honest people talking in good faith. Now i look at the same places and they're full of the worst info and worst takes.

same thing here. certain job industry, which is worth getting into, how hard it is to apply,,,etc. and all the other subs. the least useful ones were politics and news. they had subs for people wanting to join the services, but could not find a place where they can discuss because it was originally concentrated in certain forums only.

got an appliance problem of a specific model, or electronic issue, the subs have it.

I don't hate Reddit, but it seemed to hate me and banned me for the most spurious reason.

They do seem to be making some baffling decisions against their own interests, though.