I’m setting aside the question of whether it is illegal, but I think it is legally murky anyways.

The more interesting question is whether or not it is ethical to sell one’s Reddit account.

I, for one, won’t be selling mine. Why?

I think selling accounts contribute to the problem of trust in sites such as Reddit and Lemmy. Why would anyone buy a Reddit account anyways? To appear trustworthy, right? Because karma points and account age has been used as a proxy measure for an account’s trustworthiness. An old account, with a fair amount of karma points is a valuable thing for misinformation and/or campaigns. Even if I hate Reddit to the point of wanting to see them literally burn, I still can’t support misinformation and advertisements.

Another thing to consider is giving up control of your account. I’m one of those who scrubbed and deleted my Reddit posts and comments. Selling my accounts would mean that if Reddit undeletes my posts and comments, I no longer can do anything about it. Worse, someone else is in control. That’s no good for me.