Prior to the protest reddit was in full support of the protest. Most polls on subs supported a shutdown. Now, seemingly every community cant understand why the protest was needed and they’re calling it a mod power trip. There is a 3rd possibility. This is an unfounded conspiracy but reddit themselves could be manipulating scores.

See the NFL thread if you don’t mind sending traffic

https://reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/14b11kh/were_just_here_so_we_dont_get_fined/

    • Alto@kbin.social
      31·
      2 years ago

      Helps that to a certain extent a fairly large portion are going to be at least moderately tech savvy (probably less so than 5+ years ago), so switching to the fediverse is a lot less daunting to them than to the average user.

    • Jon-H558@kbin.social
      5·
      2 years ago

      Probably all the users who like me used old Reddit and apps. Those that joined recently only know the Reddit official app and don’t care

      • Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        I visited Reddit for years when Google searches led me there. About 2 years ago I got into some niche hobbies/interests, and that motivated me to sign up. I almost always used the official app. I was doomscrolling and posting lots of comments ever since.

        It takes me a long ass time to commit to a new technology. But I also heard and understood with the API issue that mods need the proper tools to do their job, and if you take away their tools, they cannot do their job. And once they can’t, they will leave and the entire experience of Reddit will change. I also understood that there are 3PA that the heaviest users and commenters use, and once those apps die, those people will not.come back, and with them will go their expertise and all of their posts and comments.

        That told scaredy cat me that I needed to find.aome new place(s) for chat and entertainment. I like it here at kbin. I’m also enjoying Tildes, and I’ve been visiting Mastodon and Substack (I set those accounts up when Twitter went haywire), Hacker News, Fark and Metafilter. I’m enjoying the diversity.

        Just mentioned all this to say that relatively new /official app using Redditors might also be making the jump.prior to Doomsday.

    • Aeonx@kbin.social
      4·
      2 years ago

      I mean your not lying. On Mastodon I saw posts about people deleting accounts with thousands of karma, lot’s of people with positive reputation in their communities left, and the people who remained either are not active posters or don’t really care.

      • TechnoBabble@kbin.social
        4·
        2 years ago

        I’m in the process of deleting all my comments but it’s taking a while.

        I’ve got probably 100k karma over a few accounts.

        I feel kinda bad about taking away all the technical help and collaborative type stuff I’ve done over the years, but… Reddit wants to use all that data to cash out on it’s users, so it has to go.

        • Melpomene@kbin.social
          3·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, I deleted my two year old account with around 150K karma yesterday. What having 150K after two years says about me, let’s not discuss… but they’ll not be getting my brand of snark ever again.

        • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          I feel kinda bad about taking away all the technical help and collaborative type stuff I’ve done over the years

          Its ok, ChatGPT has already trained on your data /s

    • theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      2 years ago

      I mean most posts on the fediverse have way less votes. But I see similarly many comments as I used to see on reddit. It just feels like reddit is here now.

      Stronger evidence: there’s documented cases of people’s deleted comments being restored. Whether or not that’s intentional by reddit, I can’t say for certain, but if I were a betting woman, you bet I’d bet on them doing it on purpose. And if they are, then we’re talking about reddit losing a substantial enough amount of content just from people deleting their accounts in protest, substantial enough to impact their bottom line. And that’s just those of us who are deleting our content - I’m not among them since I still need to occasionally look at my saved posts since there’s important and useful information in there. They’ll stop getting content from way more people. That’s gotta terrify them.

      Obviously the fediverse lacks a lot of the polish that reddit had. Mostly by virtue of reddit being around longer and having more developers - lemmy’s had like 2 developers for 4 years, kbin came out a few months ago, and I’m not sure about mastodon. But with time, that’ll change. A lot of reddit power users are programmers, and now that they can touch the code of the site they care about, I bet we’ll see a lot more polish in the coming months. I’ve certainly gotta get off my ass and dig into the code a little bit.

      I wouldn’t call myself a power user, or even an especially good programmer, but I have my moments, and I feel more at home here than I’ve felt on reddit in years.