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Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (11 children)

That being said, I really hope Steve Huffman doubles down on the API changes and kills Reddit as a platform. Nothing would make me happier.

I think this all depends on their reaction to the blackout planned for the 12th. If Reddit starts taking over the default/large subs that shut down it's 100% going to crash and burn. Not backing down on their API changes I think is an optimistic 60/40 in favor of Reddit chugging along albeit just a bit crappier for it all. (The 40% being a Digg situation that hopefully blows up their IPO plans and VC funding.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Maybe I'm pessimistic but I have little to no faith that the blackout, especially if only 2 days for some subreddits, will have any impact at all. Most likely what will happen is everyone will just scroll like normal, get bored with no content and do something else. They'll come back a few days later and everything will be normal. Most people probably really don't even care, unfortunately. :/

For reddit itself, I think they're going with game plan of throwing this shit out there and then going radio silent knowing that nothing is really going to happen. For them, no PR is probably the best move really.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I see that as a good thing. I don't want all of reddit coming here and ruinng the atmosphere of this place.

[–] pax 2 points 2 years ago

I'm from reddit exodus, I was on fedi before. just moderate those evil and ban em from our nice communities.

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