I wiped my old Reddit account the other week, but not before deleting all my replies and posts, some of which were truly helpful and even hit the front page.

The reason is that kind of stuff is what brings Reddit real value. People sharing their experiences, or providing tech help (which continues to help as new people with those problems can reference the solutions later on) or posting interesting, real content (not some chick trying to look hot, lip syncing to some mumble rap). Without that stuff, Reddit has very limited appeal.

It sucks that the users suffer too, but I’m not about to pad Reddit’s coffers when they clearly don’t give a shit about their community with my own value as a person.

Lately I’ve been really starting to look at social media in a different light. And abandon the knee jerk reaction to hold onto all this stuff and “power up” an account. Because companies like Twitter, Google, Meta, and the rest have made trillions off all our content. And are now gating it behind even more paywalls. It has to stop.