Reddit

Shit, I knew reddit won when I looked up the porn forums on Lemmy, and the subs measured in the low hundreds lol!

MySpace, digg, Yahoo, Mapquest, Hotmail, icanhazcheeseburger, Fark…still exist…possibly still make money even. But just because Reddit still has traffic and activism users doesn’t mean it won’t implode at some point. There are users and traffic because of content. Maybe it will go on fine without us but would not be at all surprised if it went downhill significantly in the next few years and the money dries up and people like Steve Huffman will have to get real jobs

The Reddit protest is over, and Reddit won.

To make an analogy:

A restaurant decides to go vegan because vegetables are cheap, so they can make better profits they believe. (API Price hike)

But obviously now many dishes can't be made. ( Apps for reddit )

So customers protest because they can't get their favorite dishes anymore. The restaurant doesn't give a shit, and the owner simply walks out to the protesters and say they don't matter, because they will give up anyway.

After enough time passes, people find alternative restaurants nearby but some go vegan, and the protests finally stop. The now vegan restaurant has "won", or have they?

They now have fewer customers, their reputation has taken a serious hit, and nearby restaurants have become more popular, and the restaurant is less attractive to new customers. So they now make less profits than before, and better profits were the whole point of going vegan!

So unless reddit makes more money or is in a better position to do it in the future, they did not win.

I'm not there, they no longer exist

I don't care if reddit wins or loses. I like it better here, and that's what matters.

Thanks for posting that here. I would never have seen it otherwise.

That's a criminally LONG read for not even having some updated (July) stats counter numbers.

Show me those, then we're talking 👍🏻

Reddit won in the since that Sparta lost. Nobody tells the story like they're LOSERS. Sometimes, being the protagonist in a tale is more important than winning.

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.

I'm still not using Reddit. Let's hope this at least puts a drop in the user count right before the IPO.

Gizmodo's metric for success is that "The last major holdouts in the massive protest against Reddit’s controversial API pricing have relented, abandoning the so-called 'John Oliver rules' which only allowed posts featuring the beloved TV host in certain dissident subreddits."

This doesn't seem like a good metric to me. I'd like to see monthly revenue and traffic. I'm sure we're not going to see revenue, and the sites I found that report traffic are conflicting. One shows a clear decline (https://www.similarweb.com/website/reddit.com/#traffic) and the other shows a clear increase (https://ahrefs.com/traffic-checker).