So What Now? What's Going On In Reddit?
So What Now? What's Going On In Reddit?
Now that the two day shutting down of many thousands of subreddits is over, what is happening now? How many are remaining closed? Are others just going back to normal? What is the prospects of any significant change happening now?
I've set my pihole to reject reddit.com and I'm committed to using Lemmy, but I do miss the old Reddit.
Nothing really. Reddit will go on as usual with a bit less users and more ad revenue.
Wow, how did you find a three week old post? :)
You may not like my answer but here goes: Time will tell.
Those who have jumped ship indefinitely will build a community here in the Fediverse. Those who miss Reddit too much will return there and use the official app.
By staying you are building something new. It may not be Reddit, and it may never be Reddit. But there are still millions of users who are here to stay and will become a community.
I hope it will not become a "they" vs "us" thing. Both platforms can exist peacefully, the same way Facebook and Twitter coexist.
Perhaps a difference in content style or format will appear in time, which will make people choose one platform over the other. But that's not bad. Competition is healthy.
I'm staying, and I'm curious to see where Lemmy is going. All I can do is contribute to making it a place I want to hang out in.
I've read this on reddit. I think they, reddit leaders, keep digging that hole deeper and deeper.
It looks like this was one moderator deciding to join the blackout when the other mods did not agree.
man it sucks when greedy people ruin something good
Moderation's gonna be really interesting. I wonder how many "join Lemmy" gifs someone could post there
All the gifs! 🙌
I do not regret deleting my accounts. I'll miss some communities for a while, but I'm sure Lemmy will grow and fill that void.
I'm leaning towards deleting my account too. We'll see.
My old Reddit (of 14+ years), because I used RIF, is gone forever regardless of the Blackout outcome. Not subjecting myself to the Reddit app (the integrity lapses highlighted recently underscore that Reddit will violate my privacy, will sell my data, will treat me like a piece of shit) and am not going back even once to enhance their revenue stream.
They caused this ... they can manage the consequences.
RIF was reddit to me so as it goes, i go. This app I'm using, Jerboa for lemmy, is pretty good
And it will only get better, let's hope. I'm hoping at least one of the third party reddit app devs jumps onto making a lemmy apps, or contribute to Jerboa repo.
For now I still have lot of peeves with Jerboa, but it's very new, turns out. There was Lemur before, but its been abandoned.
The protests need to keep going. Apparently spez thinks everyone is gonna come back today.
I don't think he cares whether we stay or leave as long as the revenue stream to Reddit is uninterrupted. But he's not a savvy businessman nor a good leader.
All the negative coverage of the Blackout - it was global, it was in general media, it was in tech media, it was in business media - will impact that revenue at some point.
Weak leadership isn't supported by the financial community when IPOs are floated, either and u/spez hasn't actually accomplished anything (like being profitable) yet.