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Ordinary redditors are feeling the pain as well. (teddit.adminforge.de)

submitted 1 year ago by abff08f4813c@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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The protests worked, and so did moving/editing/deleting our old content. As one person complains,

I'm not here for Reddit, but for the aggregation of niche communities. I follow a lot of obscure manga that have relatively small followings and recently I got into an IT job which opened a lot of technological exploration for me. The worst part about this change isn't even that we are losing 3rd party apps, but that only members of the communities I frequent are the ones who care enough to protest. Can't tell you how many times now I've looked something up on Reddit and find an answer to the issue I have, only to realize that the community is closed or the post is deleted in protest. Now we are stuck in this limbo where protests seem to have lost their steam, niche communities are being overthrown and killed because of that greedy little pigboy. Seriously, fuck spez.

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[–] Deralax@kbin.social 72 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I've already felt the sting of the protests when googling solutions to various issues. I used to be able to include "reddit" in the search and would almost always find relevant information quickly, but now as OP mentioned many posts and whole communities have gone dark.

It's all been really eye opening about the potential negative consequences of having so many communities and information in the control of so few.

[–] LavaJunk@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I do wonder if the Fediverse will ever be able to replace Reddit in terms of searchable terms for niche questions. I hate that a lot of niche communities that I’ve been apart of recently have been on discord or reddit. If those communities stay there then all that tech support will be lost; like tears in rain.

If Reddit remains the place for those kinds of niche questions that probably means spez will win in the long run. That’s what brought me to reddit, whenever I had a question reddit was always the best result.

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I avoided Reddit like the plague because of how often it came up.

Quora and Yahoo Answers combined with the popularity of Facebook scared the hell out of me.

Then I dipped my toes in and found old pre-2015 Reddit, it was great for about 6 months and then The Decline started.

I remember when Reddit ran from selling gold, there was a little counter on the side saying how much they still needed.

All you got was no ads and access to the lounge IIRC.

This feels a lot like that.

Hell, we already have our own version of the poop knife, and new Star Wars movies are coming out too, we might get to revisit the Swamps of Dagobah while eating Jolly Ranchers.

[–] LeberechtReinhold@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The problem is that people ever bought enough gold to cover costs.

Admitedly, its also reddit problem that they went from hosting links/text to also hosting images/video which is a completely different (and more expensive) beast.

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