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[–] sputtersalt 230 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

I've been pleasantly surprised by the number of people who are continuing to stick with it + be supportive. I didn't expect anything beyond the planned end of the blackout, although I didn't expect thousands of subreddits to participate in that either. Either way I've basically cut Reddit out entirely. I used to scroll 2-3hrs a day and I'm down to maybe 10 minutes once or twice a week when I'm trying to find an answer to something. Attempting to fill my newfound free time has been.. fun

[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Even if reddit changes course at this point... I've found Lemmy. And it's just... better. And beyond that, it would take reddit years to recoup the goodwill they've lost with this.

[–] x4740N 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

It is sad that we are going to loose a bunch of community knowledge that is on reddit if they go under but fuck spez and reddit

Though I wish there was a backup of reddit so we can keep the community knowledge gathered throughout the years

Edit: typo

[–] DBT 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

R/Datahoarder has been on this since it started. We aren’t losing shit.

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[–] Greenskye 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They won't go under. They'll just become a shell. If they truly approached bankruptcy, someone would buy them just for the brand.

I get why people are doing it, but truthfully the folks deleting all their comments are the ones truly destroying the data. Even if we all moved on, that data would have still been there for us to google, just like all those mostly dead forums.

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[–] tdawg 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Weirdly enough it got me more engaged with social media. In the sense that now I'm posting and talking with people on lemmy and mastodon more than I ever did on reddit. Weird how a place can get so popular it stops being a real community after a while

[–] what 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know that it has me engaging more but it feels more fun and meaningful now. Reddit had turned into man yells into the void for me. Now I feel like I'm talking to real people again on Lemmy. It's such a relief honestly.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

True, same experience here. It's nice to not see 1k+ comment threads filled with karmahoarders voted to the top.

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[–] moosh 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s what I’ve been doing here instead, lol.

[–] sputtersalt 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

shhh let me pretend my attempt at self-improvement has been successful

[–] liara 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's annoying that so much of my search results rely on community discussions from reddit. I've pretty much ditched the site entirely and am getting pretty comfy here, but a lot of historical discussions on reddit simply can't be replaced and likely never will be.

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[–] nightscout 133 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don’t go back. Even if Reddit makes concessions, the CEO has shown that he will do whatever he wants and doesn’t give a crap about the users of Reddit, you know, the people who actually make him money. Any site controlled by a CEO is at risk of this happening.

[–] Sunrosa 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not just shit controlled by a CEO, literally anything for-profit. For-profit software does not care about your experience. It cares about gouging as much money as it can from you. Open source software, the antithesis, is made for and by the people. It's there to be as useful and enjoyable as possible. Open source software has nothing to gain from forcing you to jump through hoops, unlike for-profit software. They put the hoops in place, then force you to pay them to fix the problem they deliberately caused.

And it's not like open software can't make money. Donations have shown time and time again to be enough for software and servers good enough to deserve them. See lichess.org for a wonderful example of an open platform that even denounces advertising openly, and yet survives just fine on donations. The problem is the for-profit income model.

[–] SenorMouse 13 points 1 year ago

If all the third party apps die, I couldn't go back even if I wanted to.

[–] solidgrue 132 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Honestly? I've ripped off the bandaid and moved operations over here. It feel weird and treacherous just going back to check for zombie comments.

Y'alll are more my speed anyway. Prost! 🍻

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It feel weird and treacherous just going back to check for zombie comments.

Well, replace "reddit.com" in the URL with "teddit.net" and you can view content on Reddit without going to Reddit.

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[–] linearchaos 93 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's no way they can IPO with under the current circumstances. They'll not be able to strong-arm the volunteers into submission. I'm thinking there's a deadline, they'll drop spez and sell the company off to some place that gives a crap.

[–] nslatz 83 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

They'll sell the company off to some place that will give less of a crap and will need to monetize even more to recoup their investment. It will become Deaddit.

[–] DeadNinja 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Deaddit - love that moniker !!

[–] nslatz 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit was once a beautiful thing, I hope a way can be found for it to remain so. But this seems like a much nicer place now, more like the Reddit of old. So unfortunately, Deaddit seems like the only moniker that fits now.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kinda sorta hope we can federate in reddit's history at some point, like a static instance and move on. I've pretty much jumped ship, but no point in denying there's a history there.

[–] Boiglenoight 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

While Greece is still relevant today, its ancient history is what people look to. So long as Reddit continues to exist in search results, it will serve a similar purpose.

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[–] Ketchup 39 points 1 year ago

Wouldn’t it be enjoyable to watch receive news of that here on Lemmy 🤭

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Reddit is now further away from a public offering than it was last year, Mr. Huffman said.

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/85610/Spez-talks-to-NY-Times

[–] Renacles 83 points 1 year ago

I'm glad people aren't backing down, whether you left Reddit entirely for Lemmy like I have or keep trying to start fires over there, it all hurts Reddit's IPO.

[–] Sans_outside 81 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It took many years for reddit to take off to become a huge player on the internet. Digg, Twitter, and myspace where the big players in 2005 to 2010. Then people started to move to Facebook, Snapchat, and Reddit as they became more popular. It only a matter of time until Mastodon, Lemmy and other federated platforms take over. Especially if the community keeps growing and spreading the word.

[–] c2h6 15 points 1 year ago

Yes, it'll take time but this was a good kick in the pants.

[–] QuazarOmega 12 points 1 year ago

Gotta spread the good word of ActivityPub!

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't really get what protesters wants to achieve now but only a moron would go back even if they announced that there won't be any API changes, knowing what shit CEO of that shit company thinks about them. Stockholm syndrome is strong in these people.

[–] Ippei 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This won't go anywhere as long as users aren't willing to leave reddit. Mods can be replaced, users can't.

[–] Tigerfishy 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I left...reddit honestly seems clunky now...I go back to watch it burn but it's not burning enough :( maybe instead of John Oliver they should be posting dragons or something jeez

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I left. dl'd, and then erased all my content. This confirms the importance of Open Source.

[–] OutrageousUmpire 61 points 1 year ago

The longer this goes on, the more convinced I am that this will actually damage Reddit significantly.

[–] CodeMonkeyDance 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit is a full trashcan nobody bothered to empty for 10 years. Lemmy it up!

[–] SevereLow 12 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

https://lemm.ee/post/314486

And now people are doing GDPR requests. Literally takes 3 seconds. Might as well!

Will edit with the direct link in a second. It's also a comment in the above thread.

Edit: direct link for GDPR is here: https://lemm.ee/comment/402687

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[–] CEO_of_Dolphins 23 points 1 year ago

Third week? Damn, i sweared i joined only two weeks ago

[–] zeppo 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I don’t see why anyone would be still trying, other than perhaps mods of major communities who want to hold on to their power or prominence. For typical users, who cares. It’s like knocking and knocking on the door of an ex-friend who kicked you out of their house. Just go somewhere else.

[–] Greenskye 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

A lot of mods are community founders. They care about their community, not reddit. Reddits just a middleman getting in the way.

Imagine a group of friends. Reddit is the friend with the best house for parties, but is kinda a dick. The mods are the social ones that brought this friend group together in the first place. Reddit is being stupid and making dumb rules that mostly hurt the mod. The mod is trying to either get reddit to relax the rules OR convince the rest of the friends to leave. Truthfully the friends should leave, but reddits house is so nice and they're comfortable. The mod could leave, but they're afraid all that will result in is losing their entire friend group. The whole situation sucks all around.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's more nuanced than that. Personally, there are a couple of reasons for me. Though, I have already purged my account and deleted it. First, I spent a long time on Reddit. It was a part of my daily habits for more than 12 years. Though, I think getting a way from it is not a bad thing in the case of the reason. The second reason that is more difficult to change with anything other than time is the communities. There are a lot of smaller niche communities on Reddit that really only have a home there. It's this one that bothers me the most out of the whole situation.

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[–] ksm1467 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I'm going to predict that at the 11th hour they walk back the pricing to a reasonable number, as it attempt to 1) save face and 2) to be able to point to their investors and the media that they tried negotiating.

It's too late.

[–] Invertedouroboros 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Yeah, I think that's a possible way that this goes down. I also think that if they did that it'd be a mistake. I think Apollo, RIF, and the other 3rd party apps are gone. Even if reddit announced yesterday that they were going to keep the API free, let alone negotiate a middle ground, I think 3rd party apps are gone and not coming back. On the 3rd party level I don't even really think it's the cash grab that's the problem, it's the lack of communication and trust. Even if reddit were to bend over backwards to try to keep them, I don't think there's anything they can do to make up for the lack of trust this has created in reddit's leadership. Same thing goes for the mods. The mods are arguably reddits most important users. They make the site usable for everyone else and if reddit was ever to become profitable I think the people spez would have to thank for that would be the mods who made the spaces that people wanted to come be a part of. They can't trust reddits leadership either. It doesn't matter what shiny new toys reddit may try to roll out to make their job easier, it doesn't matter what exceptions they try to carve into their new API policy. Common thread here is noone wants to sink their time into something that might change as fast as reddit has shown it can. Being a 3rd party dev or a mod takes a lot of time out of your day. Faced with the choice of leaving or laboring for a company that clearly doesn't respect the value you add to their service I think that most would choose to flee the sinking ship.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm enjoying the extra free time I've reclaimed from reducing my Reddit usage. Been investing it into little side projects and also fixing up little UI/UX issues on sites like kbin.social

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We don't even need to be worried about 'failed' protests lol, things be will be pretty fucking obvious when nobody comes back in a few days when the mobile apps shut down. Shame Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been weening myself off RIF and onto kbin. Once it's gone so am I.

[–] solidgrue 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Soon we'll have Sync for Everything ¹!

¹ Not you, Reddit.

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