I read The Verge’s latest interview with Steve Huffman here and it seems as though the Reddit blackout is having little to no effect. It also seems as though the communities at large don’t really care and will probably just use the official app or don’t really know there are 3rd party ones. So it seems this will pass and be mostly forgotten about.
What are your thoughts?
This incident won’t be the last straw, but it will be the turning point of a slow and general decline.
I don’t really care. I’m here now, deleted my 12 year old account in the process. People thinking Reddit will die are delusional. The Reddit as us old people know it has died years ago, it just became unbearable now.
Yeah , like every time Facebook was in a massive scandal - they’ll still have a billion users and unlimited money to make problems go away - but is it a nice place to be? 🥶🥶
I think one needs to see the bigger picture here. The protest that started earlier this week might not have left a big dent in reddit yet. What it did though is raise attention and increase awareness for alternative news/content aggregators like kbin. They’re not anywhere close to competing with reddit yet but the door was opened.
The shortsighted reddit politics basically helped to kickstart their own future competitors. If we do our best here and bring in good content, comment and get past only consuming there will be a real chance to become more appealing then reddit in the long run. I’m definitely here to stay.
The louder they protest it’s not doing anything, the more you can be certain that it is.
Considering the volume of bots spreading venom about it, I have to say it’s doing something
The majority of people will keep using the site like they always have, but I think the reputation and mindshare has taken a pretty big impact. Reddit is following Twitter’s trajectory, and while people are still using Twitter it’s sort of becoming a joke. Also Spez just can’t stop talking about the protests and every time he does he says more and more stupid shit, which again, is completely following in Musk’s footsteps.
I think both platforms are in a death spiral, even if they’re maintaining a large userbase for now. I think almost everyone using Twitter, and now Reddit, are just waiting for a tipping point to occur elsewhere. Maybe if a few high profile users/musicians/news outlets jump ship, others will follow. I personally think the Fediverse is the next big thing, but it has work to do to get to where both Reddit and Twitter are now. Which is fine. It took both of those platforms many years to grow into what they are.
We won’t know until early July.
The protests aren’t over yet, and Reddit is beginning to make demands to open up subs. You’re beginning to see cracks in the system.
I don’t think Reddit will change its mind, but I can see a lot of churn happening in subs happening based on those that are protesting and subs that aren’t.
This could be Reddit’s Digg moment, but it is going to play out a lot slower and we’ll probably start seeing Lemmy posts on Reddit.
That’s probably what will happen, but it’s also likely this is the first of a long series of fuck-ups (well, not the first technically, bit the first of these proportions) that will slowly kill the site.
Either way, I don’t care that much. I discovered the fediverse and as long as there’s content here I’m happy with it. Of course reddit will still be a good source of information, just not a place to spend time in. I mean, if I need specific info on a subject reddit is still the place to look at, but I won’t scroll it or post in it anymore.
A different internet is possible, but all we can do is use the alternatives we already have
Since you touched on a subject I’ve been torn on, so you will continue using reddit as a source to look up information - what if you have a follow-up question or anything that would be easier to continue discussion on reddit, in order to solve problems? Or will you strictly use reddit to look up information across threads, read comments, and that’s the most they’ll get?
Eventually, I hope that the fediverse/kbin will have so much more content that I can switch to that instead
There are just sooooo many niche questions and answers that I can find on reddit, and not just 1 person’s opinion, but like 10. Literally anything from questions about tinting your cars windows, to birthday ideas for an engineer who loves cars, to christmas ideas for people who have everything already, to how to get yubikey working with oneplus8t, to real study tips for certifications, to that very very specific issue that’s crashing your PC but can’t figure it out. I want to continue finding information given from people who are genuinely interested in sharing and teaching, not making profits
That’s my only gripe bc google sucks ass. Curious to see how you’re handling it
I… don’t know. As of now, I’m actively fighting the impulse to write anything on Reddit, but I stopped scrolling through it completely and I’m only opening it when I need some info (I have “site:reddit.com” pinned in my phone’s clipboard for Google searches, that’s how much I rely on reddit for finding answers).
I think my relationship with Reddit will be similar to the one I have with the pharmacy near my hours: they’re assholes that treat their clients like garbage and try to screw them in every possible way and I avoid them as much as possible, but it’s a 5 minutes walk from my house, opposed to 30 minutes for every pharmacy owned by nice people (5/10 if you’re willing to drive and then look for parking for 20 more minutes), and I will go buy something from them from time to time because I’d rather not shit my pants on my way to the pharmacy if I ate something weird.
For everything else I hope Lemmy will be enough.