I see a lot of comments from bootlickers on how the protests are dumb and stupid and dont work and engagement metrics are still holding but the quality of posts and comments has noticeably depreciated imo. So much so that whenever I visit the site Im actually shocked at how bad it is.
I’d say the protest did work. A lot of good users and mods left Reddit, the admins massively overplayed their hand and showed their true colors, probably hurting their IPO, the fediverse got enough of an influx of users to get a good kickstart and the next migration wave is just around the corner.
Exactly. Even reddit didn’t spring up overnight, and the great digg migration everyone talks about wasn’t a one-time en masse thing. It was a slow bleed for 2~3 years, and those that stayed on digg turned it into one huge circlejerk about how digg was so much better, reddit’s UI sucked and was confusing to use, and people would end up back on digg eventually … EXACTLY like what is happening on reddit now.
And I hate to say it but it made the perfect opener for the thing that Zuckerberg is talking about. I mean the Zucc himself is literally talking about federated communities right after the other giant social media companies started running theirs terribly.
At the very least, people will hear about the tech elsewhere now and maybe that will drive traffic to actual federated communities.
I’m kind of tired of people farming human interactions and profiting off of making our communities miserable. I’d donate a lot to lemmy if I had money just to not have to be the product anymore.
Personally, I haven’t really spent much time at all on Reddit since the Blackout. I went from it swiftly becoming my replacement for timewasting on Twitter, and was spending more and more time on it. Now, I’m on Mastodon more and using kbin. I even moved the Reddit app off the main home page on my phone. I only go to Reddit now if I’m linked to it, and the times I’ve gone from whatever page I was linked to to my home page, there hasn’t been anything I’ve seen that have made me want to spend any time there. It feels stale.