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Maybe they 'won', but I don't count a pyrrhic victory as winning. It will take years to recover.

Thank you. I hadn't considered the payment part. The cloud system that I manage is in education, so everyone pays in advance.

This makes sense, and I'll start with a lower number and ask it to go up later. It will take a couple of months to migrate everything from Linode anyhow, so I don't need them all at once.

My identity infrastructure alone uses a whole bunch of servers.

There are the three Kerberos servers, the two clusters of multiple LDAP servers behind HAProxy, the rabbitmq servers to pass requests around, the web servers also balanced/HA behind HAProxy... For me, service reliability and security are two of the biggest factors, so I isolate services and use HA when available.

I told them everything that I wrote here in my original request -- I need 25 now, but would like a quota of 50 to maintain elasticity, testing, etc.

They followed up with the request for actual resources needed.

I haven't answered since then.

I loved Reddit until I realized they were just going to do whatever they wanted and the community, apart from creating free content and work, didn't matter. But the lying about discussions with the app creator was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Suddenly they weren't just a bully, but they were a proven lying, dishonest bully. Everything that they say going forward will be suspect, so I decided to walk away. Who knows what they're doing with my data/content. I know what they're telling me. I don't know what's true.

I deleted most of my posts from my nearly 14-year history except for a handful that I think need to stay up and a couple of others that I'm testing something on. I log in every once in a while to leave any groups that might have unlocked since I was last there and delete those posts too.

I don't hate them. But they've lost my trust, and I don't see any way to regain it.

There could have been other, better solutions. The biggest problem right now is that the only tool in Steve Huffman's toolbox is a hammer.

I kept my account, but deleted most of my posts/comments from the past thirteen years unless I felt it was super important to leave them. Some I'm leaving while watching to see what happens with the subreddit.

I'm done with Reddit though. I didn't care so much about the API, but when they started lying about talks with the developer and then running roughshod over everything it became clear that they can't be trusted. How do I know that I'm even being presented with an accurate view of the world -- are the moderators hand-picked by Reddit to push an agenda? Can a corporation/government/political campaign buy moderators brokered through Reddit now?

Too many questions with no good answers. So I'm glad I'm gone.