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How is reddit post protest, did it really win over protesters? Did the ones who left make a dent? Or like all things before, did it ultimately do nothing?
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Before the protest, going to /r/all would show you posts with ages between 30 minutes and 3 hours. Today, on /r/all, there isn’t a post less than 10 hours old in the first 40 entries. The content has changed from primarily trending news interspersed with memes to about 90% memes and shitposts padded with a few soft news summaries and opinion pieces.
In comparison, my Fediverse feed has exploded. The quality of content is at the level of pre-Digg reddit, and the commentary at a significantly higher level. There’s still not as much of an audience, particularly in niche communities, but it feels like that’s changing quickly. It’s clear to me that the creative drivers of reddit - the mods, the content creators, and the engaged commentators - have left, and that the traffic is being maintained by a mostly non-participating readership that uses Reddit as entertainment, not a community.
Reddit crushed the creative spirit of its most active populations. Whatever wins Spez is claiming, it’s come at the cost of what made the site worthwhile to begin with.
That’s an interesting take. If reddit can claim victory, it would be a hollow one, even if the remaining mods do cave.
It’d be a pyrrhic victory.
Very well presented. Strong points distilled to conciseness.
Of course they’re gonna claim they won. Most people don’t realise the sheer amount of bot generated content on there anyway, which has only increased.
It’s going to dramatically increase. BotDefence, a popular moderator tool, is shutting down
Elmo’s twitter has taugh spez that you just take the hit and push through. Reddit has now alienated its powerusers, lost some historical content, and most of all decreased its potential for quality content. I believe that spez will even accept a decrease in MAUs. Any positive change now will have to come from other stakeholders.
I was one of the top 1% karma earners on Reddit last year (just saying as a measure of activity). I left it at the blackout and I’m not going back.
Same.
As long as we can keep up the content here, this has replaced Reddit for me.
The Connect for Reddit app is much more enjoyable to use than the official Reddit app. Heck, I even like it better than I did Sync for Reddit.
This place is feeling a lot like the Reddit from 2008. Just get some rage comics back and this place will be 🔥🔥🔥.
Lemmy takes a bit more curation to start finding communities and has some rough spots, but I’m super excited for this.
I’m all in for rage comics revival 💯
I personally think Jerboa is a the smoothest experience so far. But I’m planning to jump to Sync when it becomes available.
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Who actually gives a fuck?
A lot of people do.
What Reddit has done and is doing is very big news due to their size and the role they play on the internet. Just because you have a teenager’s snarky “who cares” attitude doesn’t mean that this isn’t important to a large portion of the online population, including many of the people who left reddit and came here.
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Not that enriched if you’re trying to insult people with “OK, Boomer”.
And also even though lots of people like to say there’s no “competition” between Reddit and the Fediverse, that’s not actually true. Social networks need a critical mass of people participating in order for them to be good. The two systems might not be in financial competition but they are in competition for users.
That’s an excellent point and very true.
I saw that article and i thought, “Reddit won? I lost? That’s funny, because i kinda feel like I’m winning.”
Nah, lemmy is still definitely the losing option. A fraction of the content for now and you can’t post videos yet, hope that changes.
Whats wrong with posting a link to a video? Video hosting is expensive and YouTube is already a great option.
Plus, reddit is pretty shit at hosting videos.
I don’t care what happens to reddit.
