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Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they've been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If twitter is still going strong, short term Xification doesn't affect social media that much.

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

It would be really cool if all us ex-redditers sued Reddit and Google for "unjust enrichment" which is a cause of action in most states. They're are currently taking OUR comments and selling them, meanwhile paywalling the platform. If each of us went to the county clerk and sued them for whatever is the maximum for small claims court, it could be thousands of petty little lawsuits that would cost them a fortune in lawyers. Or end up being a class action suit that could put them out of business. If they ignore the suit, they lose. When you file the suit, you file a discovery asking reddit and google to provide all your comments properly identified by date, etc,; And also for copies of their contract and to identify and produce any other party and contract that they may have sold your comments to. That alone is a huge pain in the butt for them. You have to prove that you contributed to reddit, that they sold your comments and earned money. I can't do this as a nomad, but it would be cool. Could be a good exercise for a young lawyer here.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Tried to look up some statistics about it earlier today, but couldn’t find anything that would have covered the events after the blackout. Apparently it’s too early to tell just yet. Hopefully someone will publish relevant graphs later this year.

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

It doesn't really feel like it. I am one of the Reddit refugees, but I'm not sure how much longer this place will fill the void. Curating my feed is really difficult on lemmy, and the hot/active sorting is a joke. I also find that this place is much more of an echo chamber than reddit (which is really saying something), there's just no room for dissenting opinions, they're immediately shouted down.

I really don't want to go back to reddit, so I will hold out here as long as I can, and hopefully some improvements will come along in time.

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