Yea I think /r/piracy blackout might last 1 week instead…
He’s not wrong.
Don’t get me wrong, Reddit is already inescapably in a path towards failure. But it won’t happen right now, and not with a 48hrs blackout.
After the blackout though, make sure to redirect people to Lemmy.
This plus reddit is still active. Many subs left but many is still activly used like r/askreddit
Only a bit more than 100k ppl are on lemmy and reddit have over 1 billion…
This site says reddit has 430 million active users and 44% active user growth since last year. https://backlinko.com/reddit-users#reddit-daily-active-users
So I think lemmy will be it’s own nich and reddit will just keep on going. I don’t think much will happen as long as ppl don’t rage over there and live the wild west, spam with gore and porn on all subs with no moderation so businesses do not want to have their ads there. Seems far fetched tho and I don’t know if any big wigs will even notice it. Maybe smaller business that doesn’t matter to reddit. And also all the bots will make it seem active too. And reddit only care about numbers that can be shown to their stakeholders and partners/sponsors.
But I also think it is fine. Does who care will be somewhere else and does who dont will stay there. But the reason this all happened suck tho
I don’t see reddit growing further, the people that came are 99,99% people that just browse the Frontpage and maybe up vote, the important people are the mods and content creators. Without third party stuff moderation is impossible on reddit realistically speaking. And most contributing people used third party, reddit will look like digg in the near future.
Also if they just counted new accounts as new users im personal 12 of them + 3 bot accounts… What is a “active reddit user” a account that isn’t u/deleted?
So the next phase after blackout starting after the api changes is the spam bot phase?
Haha I guess. If the bots works after the api change. I don’t know how much worth it is for them to pay for the api. So maybe it will shock us all of how different reddit will be?
The CEO is correct. The only thing that might actually affect reddit would be if the major subs purged their entire subs, but I assume this would take time, and they’d probably intervene to stop it. It’s one thing to replace the mods, a whole other to have to build the popular subs back up from scratch.
Realistically, nothing will change on reddit. It will keep getting shittier, but most people won’t care and will continue using it. My hope is that places like Lemmy grow to bring in a more select crowd of users (i.e., they can actually figure out how to create an account and then use it; not exactly a high bar, but one that is too much for the ‘common’ user of most social media).
People are already saying it’s a feature here
I mean, every CEO would do so, because they have a flawed view of their product. That is what they are paid for: believing in their product. Otherwise they would not do their job properly.
Let’s just hope the community remains strong to display what we are capable of together, just like with what happened on r/wallstreetbets.
He is probably very right; or the users actually so some courage, found the touch and smell of grass intoxicating and won’t return. Time will only tell.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens. I don’t think it’s gonna go the way of Digg but I could see Reddit becoming what I’ve heard Tumblr became, a shell of its former self
it’s the enshittification cycle and Reddit is on the late stages of it
That seems a very typical “hands over ears going lalalalalalala” CEO type response. When a huge part of your userbase protests your changes, you would hope it would at least cause some discussion at a high level, perhaps a compromise. But for them to just stay the same course seems absurd. I suspect this will be one of the nails in the coffins of Reddit. It won’t go out with a bang, but with a whimper.
Its rough staying away from reddit for sure… But that communique eternally hardened my heart towards the platform. I hope i can better figure this Lemmy shit out, lol… This Jerboa app isnt the best… But i am making due with it.
Honestly using lemmy though browser Firefox is working really well for me. Better than jerboa
As a wage slave, i cannot access anything fun on my pc. Ive not considered using ff to access it on my phone. Maybe it wont suck! Ill give it a try!
Alternatively try native alpha
The shutdown has forced to finally look at reddit alternatives. So far been using kbin and just started lemmy, kbin has been overloaded.
i prefer reddit. Hopefully the issue will be resolved. Fuck those who are going black its none of your concern what goes on between developers and the spaz. The native app is still the best
