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This absolutely feels like republicans setting themselves up for the "red wave" in 2020 that never materialized.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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Yeah I feel like anybody who was gonna come to lemmy already did
While I want to agree with this, there have been a number of people saying they will stop using Reddit when the changes come into force on July 1.
Yeah people say stuff like that all the time. If they were really going to leave they'd have done it already
I heard that less than 10% of redditors use 3rd party apps. After tomorrow, I doubt that the whole 10% moves here. Maybe 5% if we are lucky (on unlucky if you are an instance owner).
What really matters is how well the mods can manage the site without their 3rd party tools. Without them, moderation will suffer.
5% of Reddit is colossal compared to Lemmy's current numbers. I think even 0.1% would be very noticeable.
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The content on r/all was already dropping in quality during june. I was noticing I was getting into weird niche subreddit way earlier than usual, so hopefully that means all the post makers are starting to jump ship
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I just got notification from bacon reader that I can't use it anymore after almost 10 years. It was how I used reddit. I reckon a lot of folks will be getting that same announcement tomorrow, loads of iphone users especially. So I just deleted my account today. Reckon other people will do the same
There will probably be another wave. Simply for the fact that moderation bots are going to stop functioning tomorrow and Spam is just going to go through the roof. It all depends on how fast Reddit can get a handle on that situation.
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about the moderation tools losing API access. The big subreddits don't have the staff to manually fight all of that, especially with at least some of the senior/dedicated mods losing at least some interest in keeping things afloat. Pro bono work was already rough enough with tools to help. Remove those tools and it's going to put a lot of people off moderating in a serious manner.
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Yeah I don't think there will be a significant drop in reddit users however I think they'll be a noticeable drop in quality posts and comments. I think with many older gen redditors and experienced mods jumping ship there's going to be somewhat of a void left in the wake.
Content already has been dropping in quality slowly. A few days ago people were talking about subs up voting Facebook level memes to the frontpage.
That was very much how the death of Digg felt. As the real users left, they're upvoting and downvoting pressure that kept total trash off the front page waned. Soon it was nothing but total garbage posts and advertisers who were gaming the system. The content quality completely crashed and it just pushed more real users away.
It'll be interesting to watch how well Reddit weathers this and what comes out the other side. Digg still exists, but it's a shadow of a shadow of its former self.
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I like this meme
You know you fucked up, when even google gets worse for a few days, because of the subs you made go dark.
I am 99% lurker and I joined a few weeks ago. I've been patiently waiting to see what happens with the amount and type of content after an assumed bump in activity when 3rd party apps go dark.
I was an Alien Blue user for years before Reddit purchased it, then I was using Sync (and will be again soon with Sync for Lemmy). Reddit is essentially dead to me without 3rd party apps.
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I've seen people that use third party apps and had no idea about them going away. Let's see if it effects Reddit in any meaningful way.
I sort of hope it does. But also don't think it will in any meaningful way
The early adopters matter far more than the raw numbers suggest. There is no long tail for content creation and curation. Ongoing exsanguination will intensify. Prognosis is poor for this patient.
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We'll be celebrating a lot of cake days on next year's June and July
And every June/July going forward lol
Nothing drastic will happen or change, because it's not users who will be leaving the site, but moderators, and still only a tiny fraction of moderators. Majority of subs will be exactly as they were a month ago. They would be leaving for lack of better moderation tools and API which lemmy also doesn't have, so it's not a real alternative to migrate to.
The only thing that would make users start moving would be complete lack of moderation of top100 subreddits, which we know won't happen because if one mod leaves, there always will be someone who will be happy and enthusiastic to be granted the dfake internet respect for being a mod of a major subreddit.
Most 3rd party Reddit apps will be gone, and Reddit have shown willingness to move to a far more closed model than it used to be. Mods were and are not the only ones to leave.
Yeah people like you and me care about that, but let's face it, if the average user cared about how shitty social media sites treat them then FB and Twitter would be deserts
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My take is slightly different. Apart from content you would find of Twitter/Instagram/Facebook/Tiktok, what makes reddit powerful is human experts, especially in STEM and tech. I see many of these people leaving and reddit becoming a meme + yt comments platform.
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Joined earlier today
Welcome to the fediverse. You might find things to be pretty ok here
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It would be so wonderful if this is the last reddit hug of death
This has been him for the past 3 or 4 weeks
Buh bye bacon ☹️
Will miss bacon and all the third party clients Spez killed..
Deleted my account today and uninstalled RIF. They'll be getting nothing from me.
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I’m off Reddit fully but I don’t think it’ll be an implosion. With a few other apps striking deals, some will switch to those while others will stick with the main. I think mostly OGs and people more comfortable with tech are the ones who made the switch.
I agree. Lemmy takes a bit to get used to. I think if content starts to get worse on Reddit, more people will get bored and switch. Hopefully by then those early kinks in lemmy will have been cleared out.
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Brace yourselves ladies gentelman and everyone in between. It will be hard.
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the real test is will Lemmy attain sustainable growth after this fiasco? or it is just temporary?
I was there gandalf. A thousand years ago when digg died and reddit took its place.
Things are in motion that cannot be undone
I think the hard-core redditers - those who aren't just using reddit to find the best burger when they visit Houston - will stay here, or have more of a presence.
At least that is my hope - "If you want Lemmy to be Reddit, just go back to Reddit." As it were.
Casual redditers don't even know there are non-offical mobile apps.
Good for us. I wish this happens to snapchat, facebook, Instagram, whatsapp and even google (little hard for google) Btw I'm already on pixelfed instead of Instagram.
I'm on pixelfed, but without any of my friends on there, there's not much to it. But the appeal of Reddit is not that your friends are there, so the move to Lemmy or kbin is easier.
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RIF stopped working today, so here I am. I for one, welcome my new Lemmy overlord instances
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I don't think we really know at this point what will happen or how fast reddit will fall. What we do know is third party app users will no longer be able to use the site. And that it will be harder for users with disabilities to effectively use reddit.
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Right now there is a race to illegally restore the valuable deleted content. Even google is notably worse without reddit content. Redditors and even mods started nuking their accounts yesterday. Came over with the Star Trek community from reddit too.
Apollo has been deleted, Reddit app remains deleted. Memmy has taken Apollo’s spot. Feels good.
I was born for this momento
digg vibes
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