The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.::Reddit corporate claims victory over its disgruntled mods as r/aww, r/pics, and r/videos abandon the “John Oliver rule.”
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No surprise here, just like Bernie Sanders, Mueller, and everything else, le reddit blindly overestimated what was going to happen. I’m willing to bet less than 10% of reddit even knows there were other apps, they just want cat pics and reposted tiktoks.
The victor is not victorius if the vanquished does not consider themselves so
Never stop fighting, we will win!
Why fight when you can just delete your reddit* account and be done with it? :)
The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented,
Some small subreddits are still protesting and planning on doing so indefinitely. Others have migrated to Lemmy/Raddle/Squabbles/Etc
I agree that reddit won but it was a, pyrrhic victory the content quality has massively gone down. I still have a secondary account there but I only use it to spread the word about lemmy. Haven’t used it in weeks because I don’t want to attract too much attention and get suspended.
Sadly, Reddit has won. Their traffic is higher now than before the API protests. It seems like the saying "All publicity is good publicity was true in this case. While one can appreciate a minimal downtrend in Twitter interest (as expected), Reddit interest is growing and even more after the protests. Google trends:
That is search terms not traffic. If I Google “Reddit controversy” it will add to the Reddit stat. Your literally just asking Google to tell you how many people included the word “Reddit” in their search query.
You’re right, I should have said search interest. Though, I would argue it is correlated.
Assuming that this is not just Reddit paying Gizmodo for an article to discourage people from using Lemmy by shaping the narrative that everyone is back on Reddit, then I would say it’s just way too early for Gizmodo to make this call.
Enough people have come over to make a push/pull environment happen between the two sites. Time will tell which one pulls the most over to their side.
Just If you consider the growth of 7000% of a competitor in the era when many players fight for the attention of the users a victory. Time will tell
Hey I’m here so guess what
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There’s two problems…
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There is no easy to use singular Reddit replacement. (The fediverse is not easy to use to normal people.)
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Reddit is such a large social media site now that all the nerds getting angry and leaving doesn’t matter. 10 years ago this change would have killed Reddit, but now that normal people like my mom are on Reddit they don’t give a shit about using the official Reddit app, in fact they were probably already using it.
But your mom was probably not part of the 1% of Reddit posting things people cared about. A lot of those people left and, I’m told (I haven’t been back to look), the change is noticeable.
Here are the subs I used to go to…
- Askgaybros - Doesn’t exist on the fediverse
- Gaybros - exists but barely gets one post per day
- Politics - I’m banned because of my username, but plenty of subscribers. Interestingly I can’t figure out how to contact a moderator to get unbanned. The information page doesn’t list who the moderators are. I had a similarly “offensive” name on Reddit for a decade and never got banned from r/politics
- askreddit - plenty of subscribers on Lemmy
- Android - plenty of subscribers on Lemmy
- Linux - plenty of subscribers on Lemmy
- Economics - maybe a post or two a day
When I go back to Reddit, on desktop, all of those are operating as they normally do, with no perceptible change on the amount of posts.
Plot twist: you’re just a British smoker.
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The incredible thing about these articles is that they don’t make the slight mention of lemmy.
That one linked is a well written summary of what happened, but it’s partial if they don’t include the migration that happened, even if it wasn’t that big.
Not mentioning alternatives definitely feels like a favor for reddit tbh.
favor
Ad partner/customer potential?
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Now that you’ve noticed the PR industry, you may realize that basically every article is fawning of its subjects in this way these days
Spez gambled that most mods would give up because they where power whores. He won because he was right.
I wonder how many users and how much traffic they lost in the process.
Real or faked? Because they have tons of bots and paid traffic to make the site look busier than it actually is. Steve figured that out years ago because he’s a sociopathic liar with access to venture capital and an IPO to defraud.
Oh from the day Reddit went live there have been fake accounts. That’s how Steve and Alexis made it look like people were using the site.
Steve looks forward to the hell of interfacing with shareholders, which makes me giddy. Reddit is now a money machine and no longer a community. The enshitification is well underway.
Hi Aaron, Thankyou for leading me to find Cory Doctorow’s essay on enshittification. I think this should be taught in every higher learning institution in the world, immediately.
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Why Garfield has boobs, and why he’s on the back? So many questions…
It’s due to spez having a smooth front, like a Ken doll.
Damn, that meme is cursed. I feel like I need to wash my eyes with bleach now.
I’ve been following the graphs here, and it’s sure seems to be declining. But I don’t know how accurate it is.
So buying reddit coins and gilding every “fuck spez” comment/post didn’t work? I can’t believe it!
Nobody cares though. The reddit administration has dethroned their own site, it will never gain that back. They’re done, even if the site hangs around like a bad smell for a few more years.
Maybe they ‘won’, but I don’t count a pyrrhic victory as winning. It will take years to recover.
They won’t recover.
I would desperately love to know what they estimated the IPO at before and after this whole mess.
Is also worth remembering that the person doing the estimate was insane. Even before all of the process the site was never worth the four billion dollars or whatever the hell that stupid number was.
The site was massively valued because of the user data not for the site itself now that a lot of the user data is gone and not a lot of new user data is being generated the site is less valuable. The websites still exists of course but that was never the valuable bit of it.
I am not really shocked because the only way to really beat Reddit is by leaving the platform completely as in what many did when Melon Husk took over Twitter. Mass exodus. Express displeasure by voting with your feet and GTFO.
I guess I beat reddit then.
You and I both beat Reddit! 😂
So did I. The only people who claim Reddit “won” are falling for the survivorship bias. Most of us who actually cared are long gone.
