Reddit

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

Show me those, then we're talking 👍🏻

I'm transitioning to lemmy but it's not easy. I can login to my account with an app, but not with any of my desktop browsers. Following users on other instances is unintuitive. Plus there are tons of fake "official" accounts I can't filter away.

We all knew how it would end, but it’s still sad to see this outcome

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

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

I'm not there, they no longer exist

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).

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.

Idk if this is true. there were fewer posts about voyager 2 on lemmy, but they were more comments on it and it was a better article. I found 2 or 3 posts about it on reddit, but very few comments.

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

Turns out that information warfare is trivial when you own all the rights and the lights and the locks on your own platform.

Congrats, Spez. You won the battle but lost the war.

Lemmy won, because Lemmy users numbered in the hundreds before the fiasco. The software is now growing by leaps and bounds.

Reddit may have won the battle, but not the war, and certainly not without casualties.

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.

Not sure they have. No traffic stats yet on July which was when the API changes took effect

Cool story, unfortunately

I'm here and I got infinity, dbzer0 and everything reddit offered me

We got a head start for the future. We got in the lifeboats before the little holes slowly will leak in water so the ship will sink. It takes some time with smal holes 😉