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"Despite these concessions, dozens of Redditors promised to stop using the site altogether "
There are dozens of us!! Lol
Fucking delusional on this writer’s part. It was far more than dozens and a lot of those people were power users with an outsized influence on the community.
I personally moderated two 150-250k user subs. Stepped down from both and wiped all my posts and comments and have not contributed a single thing since.
I went from multiple comments per day and posts almost every day to a couple comments a week and I think I’ve made one post since the protests
That place got hella toxic since the protests
I didn’t wipe my old account, but I have not been back since everything went down. I’ve looked at it occasionally but contributed nothing. It seems pretty shit atm.
That link linked to /modcoord at perhaps dozens of moderators promised to leave, which is far more impactful than users. I know just from watching kbin, lemmy and other sites grow from this summer on that hundreds to thousands likely left reddit. Unfortunately it’s probably a drop in the bucket but Web 2.0 was always probably going to win. The only real way I can see of us getting out of that en masse if when each site inevitably kills themselves through mismanagement.
Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve logged into Reddit since I started using Lenmy
I haven’t really either. Apart from the the odd Google search results here and there, but not actually logging in.
I’m doing my part. 🫡
no need to exaggerate 😬
In response to such critiques, Reddit spokesperson Rathschmidt said he did not “know of an industry benchmark for scoring content quality”. (Emphasis mine)
This is the same tone deaf response I’ve come to expect from Reddit for some time now, and is why I’m happy to no longer be a user of their platform.
That same quote caught my eye. It’s just bullshit. Or course they’re no quantitative way to measure quality on a qualitative scale. Any long time user can see there’s not much going on like there used to be.
Honestly, Fuck Steve Huffman.
I’m excited to see where Lemmy, Mastodon and the Fediverse go as I believe that’s what Aaron Swartz wanted Reddit to be when it merged with Infogami; a user curated platform about anything, and a great source of knowledge.
How corporate social media’s biggest user protest, and exodus, rocked reddit, acccording to corporate media - FTFY
Slowpoke image: did you guys hear about reddit
What’s a reddit?
Ever since earlier this year I’ve had WAY more friends, family and news articles I’ve seen mention or link to reddit than the past. I don’t know if it’s confirmation bias since I left reddit or if it just gained popularity at the same time or what. But I used reddit for ~12 years and few other people in my circle used it heavily. Now it seems like it exploded?
I was a long time user too and I even moderated a few small subs and I was active in the groups I was with. I was a user for ten years and I grew these groups I worked on. After the change I gave up all four of the communities I ran, deleted my account and never looked back.
I think the explosion of popularity came as a result of the API change fiasco and the protests that people created. Reddit became headline news all summer and I think new users flocked to it because of that. The problem is that most people don’t care about creating content, they move over to find content.
Like everyone already said … The Reddit change brought in new lurkers that only want to watch while at the same time most of the popular creators left. There are not that many popular creators or active users who like connecting people because it takes a lot of time and work to do … for sure it literally becomes a full time job. When a website loses those core people, the content changes and becomes less interesting.
I go on Reddit once in a while to check in its status and if you notice, a lot of the popular subs have slightly decreased in activity but if you look at the forums, a lot of the content and activity is recycled from years ago. Reddit can probably live on recycled content for years but it will be a decline and the decline will take a long time before it becomes obvious.
Haven’t been on there since the event, though I do read some threads if they come up in a search. Not intending on returning, though I haven’t gotten rid of my old account yet
I’m surprised they didn’t mention us at all. I wonder how many people actually made the transition as a result. Surely it’s more than dozens?
A few tens of thousand of people. We can see that through the statistics of active monthly users since then. I think many just left Reddit though, but unfortunately not enough. But still, if I look at the content and comments through RedReader it feels all kinda different there. Even more reposts than before, much more bot comments than before, much less comments overall and /r/all just looks different because many previously big subs are not really there anymore, while a lot of more niche subs suddenly appear frequently. It sometimes also feels more toxic with al lthe disinfo and insults but that might just be because a lot of the moderate people left. So the lack of sane comments puts an extra highlight on the shit stains of Reddit.
Left reddit recently bc of the toxicity, massive noticeable uptick across most subs. Blatant racism, homophobia and hate in general with next to zero moderation. The ads were just cancer(without a blocker) with the sponsored “he gets us” ones being unblockable and funded by a christian hate group prominently showing up constantly. Kbin has been an alright replacement minus the server issues recently
3.58K users / day
That’s how many people use this sub per day, according to the sidebar. And I would guess it’s one of the bigger ones? So it’s more than dozens, but it’s still a blip for most social media sites. At least until the next spez inflicted fiasco happens and there’s another user surge.
#fuckingcapitalists
What crap. I was on Reddit for 12 years, and left with the migration, to land in the fediverse. Not going back. We are building a much better place. Onward!
Whatever. Don’t care. I left my account open but scrubbed twelve years of content, including hundreds (probably thousands) of answers to technical questions and dozens of posts (including guides) to which my reddit post was the only or one of the only search results.
If corporations want to profit from my knowledge, they can do so by exploiting the open source community, just like always.
Same. In the brief window when we still had the API, I deleted every thing I’ve ever posted. Every helpful comment, all the well crafted answers to technical questions. I know they are in the wayback machine somewhere but at least Reddit can’t sell them.
it’s cute you think they didn’t already sell them.
I used the API to scrub my comments and also did a GDPR request … they still have plenty of shit the API didn’t touch.
[Huffman said,] “We respect when you and your communities take action to highlight the things you need, including, at times, going private.”
Really? 'Cause that’s not the impression I’ve been getting. :scepticalThor:
Agreed. It didn’t feel respectful when they started replacing mod teams that refused to reopen.
I came back to Lemmy because of the exodus. Definitely stayed longer because of the awesome Lemmy apps that came out (Boost and Sync). I check like 3 subs on Reddit occasionally, but use the web version. It’s so bad that it encourages me to get off pretty quickly lol. My only other social media is Mastodon, and my DNS blocks all the connections from other big social media.
