They were always going to win. It’s their platform. They can do whatever they want. But… They lost my attention and paid subscription. I now only go to Reddit when I’m looking for something I can’t find elsewhere. It used to be my favorite platform.
Reddit’s main advantage is the historic number of contents and knowledge posted by their users.
It will take decades for this advantage to shift, if even possible, to similar type like Lemmy or other platforms.
Decades? Nah, but years yeah for sure
This can play out in other ways. Search platforms start indexing open platforms and more links start making reference to these platforms.
Major social media platforms don’t just explode and go extinct, they slowly slip into irrelevancy.
Digg still exists, no-one cares. Tumblr still exists, no-one cares. Myspace still exists, no-one cares. The list goes on and on.
Did Spez write this article? Reddit didn’t win. Trying to go back there has resulted in literally no answers for anything. It’s just shills and that’s it. I couldn’t get answers to things anymore on some pretty major subreddits. So, glad I’m staying with Lemmy.
Did you read the article though? The title is more of a dark statement on how reddit will always have the final word.
Didn’t win me, I’m here now, no signs of leaving, happy to be in the fediverse.Popcorn is my only want for the impending implosion.
And fuck the greedy spez’s of the world. Long may they suffer the wrath of the working class.
Left reddit. Collected my pics, killed my account. I feel much better now. Reddit can die in a fire.
What price victory? They’ve lost user confidence, they’ve lost the faith and trust of moderators, they’ve lost apps which made the site easier to use. Spez has abandoned any credibility he had with users and now just looks like another self-serving tech bro, willing to cut his own mother’s throat to raise his company’s stock price a half point. Whatever Reddit has “won” was not worth the sacrifice.
The way I see it, all of us who migrated here won. Enshitification is eventually going to kill reddit, the only question is when. I’ll grab some popcorn when it happens, but for now won’t worry about it and just enjoy my time here on Lemmy.
That‘s right. Without the protests, i probably would nit have been aware of the fediverse existence
Yeah, I agree with this suspiciously named man. Whether it happens sooner or later, Reddit’s death is on the horizon, as it will keep making the wrong choices and so steadily lose those communities and content that built it in the first place.
It won’t die. It will just hollow out. Same as Digg. Same as Facebook, Twitter, and every other shitty part of the internet. The power users are what make the internet the magical place it is. Without those people, the sites will still work… but they won’t be as great as they were before their respective turning points. It’s a cycle it seems.
Enshittification will one day kill Lemmy. Somehow.
And we’ll be elsewhere.
Honestly I’m happy with a slow death than a big freaking one. A humongous explosion is not always a good thing lol.
It might not even kill it. Facebook is still kicking, after all, for all its enshittification. It’s just… idk, some of us were freed to move on to a more satisfying experience. That’s all. Life continues here, life continues there
facebook’s on the decline, meta’s betting on instagram since that’s what the kids use. facebook is for boomers to looking at family vacation photos and nazi radicalising and is a legacy service at this point.
Nah, I won. We won. We found better platforms like Lemmy, Mastodon, and KBin.
I’m not going back to reddit, there’s simply no need.
Exactly. Reddit can suck it.
I think I’ve skimmed the F1 subreddit like twice since the protests began. I’m done with Reddit. Not just because of RIF but on desktop too. Lemmy gets better every day as well
Haven’t been back since sync left. Now that I just got sync beta for lemmy, I’m happy again.
I haven’t really been back since my 3rd party of app shutdown. It wasn’t some big moral protest on my part. I just have no easy access to a good app for it now.
Sadly, I still have to go back to Reddit since it’s the only way to get information for certain niche communities
Probably not a big deal, as long as you don’t log in
The whole API fiasco caused me to delete my Reddit account, after being in the site since 2013 :)
Why haven’t you created those communities here and go post over there that they exist outside Reddit?
Just because you create a niche community in Lemmy, doesn’t mean you’ll get enough people to help answer your questions. It’s hard to get more people into a niche community. And don’t forget that most people online are lurkers. Even if a place looks like they have a lot of subscribers, most of them don’t actually post/comment.
Been thinking of doing that, but haven’t because:
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I don’t think I’m active enough to create a community nor do I know how to manage it properly and allow it to grow. And,
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Usually I only go on Reddit for information I need right away or as soon as possible. So, Reddit is still more convenient than creating a new community for that topic.
But who knows. Maybe one day I’ll get around to making community.
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I haven’t been back to reddit, so they lost one user for sure 👍
But most of these are small communities, and today only protesting subreddit with over 10 million subscribers is r/fitness.
Even if those subreddits never reopen, relinquishing the John Oliver rule officially brings the Reddit protests to a close.
These sentenences are literally right after each other. I have no idea how a 10+ million subreddit still protesting and many smaller ones means the protests are “officially over”. It’s died down quite a bit but that doesn’t seem like a state to declare “officially over”.
It was always clear Reddit would not change course.
The real question is whether the fediverse found enough room to germinate and if Reddit’s days are numbered.
I’m all in on the fediverse.
This is like a martial arts movie where the immotal fighter thinks that they’ve won, but doesn’t yet realise that they’ve been cut in half.
Damn that’s probably the best analogy here so far.
I deleted my 12 year old Reddit account, and I’m here. I still go there, but spend minutes rather that hours. I tried Hacker News, but some posts are really technical. I hope this is a new home.
Great thing about hacker news is they have actual paid mods that really keep things civil and prevent the forum from turning into a cesspool. Despite people proclaiming “hn is turning into reddit” every once in a while in past 12 years, the mods do a solid job and it hasn’t turned into reddit yet. Whenever I visit hacker news there is a chance that I’d learn something new. It’s a very valuable resource.
That being said, can’t shitpost in hacker news. Posted a joke? RIP.
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Fuck spez.
I don’t care anymore. I have to thank all those corporate zombies for all the time I’m spending in my workshop making furniture instead of being online . Gotta go now, a kitchen cabinet calls for the final touches.
Go gotta now, trying to grain fill and paint my shitty old red oak builder grade cabinets because I’m a cheap ass…
