As a PSA, remember that the API changes don’t only impact third party apps & accessibility tools, but also your ability to bulk delete or modify your Reddit history. If you intend to delete or modify your previous Reddit posts, be sure to run a tool like Power Delete Suite today before the shut down.
Also remember that as Subreddits went from private to public, there may have been posts and comments you attempted to delete but couldn’t until they went public again. So if you ran these tools, you might want to run it again to make sure you got everything.
There is no reason to leave your old comments. Every question that has been asked may be asked again - on Reddit it on another platform. Most questions have been asked and answered elsewhere.
Google provided answers before Reddit and will provide answers after. Reddit was getting paid, though eyeballs, for it answers which were indexed on google. People sure as shit didn’t find answers by searching on Reddit - that site couldn’t find a relevant post if you quoted a thread title verbatim.
Reddit has made a statement that our time and effort is worth nothing, and we should return the favor. If Spez wants his billions by displaying answers, he should grab his keyboard and start answering them himself. If he wants memes he should fire up photoshop. If he wants AITA content he needs only post pictures of himself in the sub day after day. I don’t work work for free, and you shouldn’t either.