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
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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.
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
R/Datahoarder has been on this since it started. We aren’t losing shit.
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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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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
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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True, same experience here. It's nice to not see 1k+ comment threads filled with karmahoarders voted to the top.
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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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That’s what I’ve been doing here instead, lol.
shhh let me pretend my attempt at self-improvement has been successful
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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! 🍻
I did go on reddit the other day (didn't login) and seeing all of the deleted comments the admins have removed for talking about THE ISSUE is kind of hilarious.
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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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.
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.
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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.
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 CEO of that shit company thinks about them. Stockholm syndrome is strong in these people.
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.
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.
you're not wrong
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Wouldn’t it be enjoyable to watch receive news of that here on Lemmy 🤭
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
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.
Yes, it'll take time but this was a good kick in the pants.
Yeah does it seems like decentralized (federated or otherwise) systems will be the future of social media. There's lemmy (only four years old, the most popular I'd say), bluesky (another federated system), and plebbit (peer to peer, uses ipfs) to highlight a few. So there seemsto be a lot of exploration in this space.
I think reddit will be around for quite some time, but it'll never be the same, and die a slow death.
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The longer this goes on, the more convinced I am that this will actually damage Reddit significantly.
This won't go anywhere as long as users aren't willing to leave reddit. Mods can be replaced, users can't.
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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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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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.
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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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.
i also think a big reason for mods of the big communities could be something similar to the sunk cost fallacy, you dont want to ditch something you spent a shitton of hours into
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I've been weening myself off RIF and onto kbin. Once it's gone so am I.
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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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Just wiped all my comments a couple hours ago with the help of PowerDeleteSuite. Didn't quite take the first time, and was surprised that it was a clean sweep the second time. From what I've read, I shouldn't have expected that degree of success.
Even so, I'll check back periodically to see whether they've been 'restored'.
I'll not contribute to that site any longer. I might still pop on over once in a while, eg, if a web search leads me there. But I'll be sure to have my adblockers/anti-trackers engaged.
RE: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
Works great, but you have to baby sit it was it'll occasionally display an error, and you have to click a button...
Third week? Damn, i sweared i joined only two weeks ago
Reddit is a full trashcan nobody bothered to empty for 10 years. Lemmy it up!
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Well, since we are here on Lemmy, it feels like that good damage is already done on Reddit side.
If the injury is a fatal one, only time and the engagement on the alternatives will tell.
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