So I’ve seen a few posts regarding news outlets calling the protests a failure, and I don’t really think that’s the case. The protests have clearly made an impact, especially if the Reddit CEO is willing to oust MODS to reopen subreddits. I truly believe that something has been jump started here on Lemmy, Kbin, and all of the fediverse. What happened on Reddit has simply pushed those already on the fence, or looking for other social media platforms to jump ship. I truly believe the impact is greater than what the media and Reddit in general want us to believe. Something has started here on the fediverse that simply cannot be stopped, all we can do is inform others and show why it’s the future of aggregated news boards and social media.
It’s not like Reddit was even likely to die. I think we all knew the best case outcome that was still grounded in reality was something like Reddit falling into a slow but certain nose dive.
I mean, even Twitter is still kicking despite all the horrible stuff that’s gone on there. Reddit isn’t Twitter levels of bad. A slow decline was the best we could have hoped for.
Honestly, we wouldn’t have been able to scale to a massive migration, anyway. A slow migration is ideal for scaling and community building.
Whether Reddit dies or not also depends on what you consider “Reddit” to be.
Will reddit.com go down? No. Likely not for a generation, at least. Will Reddit be totally unrecognizable in the future? Probably not.
Will it be a souless zombie, kept operational by nothing more than its brand name and advertising?
Yes. Yes it will.
All very good points! So yeah, I’m taking what victories I can, in this case my victories are having found the Fediverse and no longer being on reddit ☺️
Yeah what the fuck is going on with twitter? Anybody know what current traffic is like compared with before it was musked?