We did it Reddit!
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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I won because Im free of that site
"I'm bleeding, making me the victor!" - Reddit after losing half their valuation, alienating their user base, removing veteran mods, and revealing how shit of a company they actually are
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They won, but hopefully the hit they took gives them pause. Lemmy won too, it's become a nice little community and I'm happy to be here.
Just If you consider the growth of 7000% of a competitor in the era when many players fight for the attention of the users a victory. Time will tell
Partly because the majority of the people didn't even know there were 3rd party apps lol. Many people don't even care about the protests. Reddit is too big for it to go down overnight.
The only thing we could do now is build better communities here.
I was one of those people, didn;t even know about the 3rd party stuff until they were nearly gone. The site took a noticeable decline in quality and that's why I'm here.
I thought Mastodon, Lemmy, and Kbin were all the same thing until about a week before I lost access to RIF. I'm glad I looked into all the Reddit alternatives and found Lemmy. Reddit has been shitty for years anyway.
News brought to you be [official news side totally not paid by spez]
Just a matter of time till majority of its users realise how easy it is to migrate to lemmy and how greedy and evil reddit has become.
There's two problems...
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There is no easy to use singular Reddit replacement. (The fediverse is not easy to use to normal people.)
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Reddit is such a large social media site now that all the nerds getting angry and leaving doesn't matter. 10 years ago this change would have killed Reddit, but now that normal people like my mom are on Reddit they don't give a shit about using the official Reddit app, in fact they were probably already using it.
But your mom was probably not part of the 1% of Reddit posting things people cared about. A lot of those people left and, I'm told (I haven't been back to look), the change is noticeable.
Here are the subs I used to go to...
- Askgaybros - Doesn't exist on the fediverse
- Gaybros - exists but barely gets one post per day
- Politics - I'm banned because of my username, but plenty of subscribers. Interestingly I can't figure out how to contact a moderator to get unbanned. The information page doesn't list who the moderators are. I had a similarly "offensive" name on Reddit for a decade and never got banned from r/politics
- askreddit - plenty of subscribers on Lemmy
- Android - plenty of subscribers on Lemmy
- Linux - plenty of subscribers on Lemmy
- Economics - maybe a post or two a day
When I go back to Reddit, on desktop, all of those are operating as they normally do, with no perceptible change on the amount of posts.
Nobody is surprised. They strong armed all the mods with integrity off the platform and replaced them with the spineless willing to play the game. Somehow they’ve become even more of a vacuumed echo chamber than they already were, which I’m sure they’re pleased with anyway. But they lost even more legitimate users. I do have a “troll” account that I use to express my true opinions before I’m eventually banned for saying something that goes against the status quo. But it is nice to not have to worry about every comment I ever make getting me downvoted to shit and banned because I said something the hive mind didn’t agree to.
Reddit didn't win over me. I edited all my comments to "fuck u/spez", got suspended from a couple subreddits, and then never logged back in to my account. Been using Lemmy ever since.
I don't think the war has been won. This might have been the biggest battle, but it's going to be the years that tell the story, not the months or the days.
The victor is not victorius if the vanquished does not consider themselves so
Never stop fighting, we will win!
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Assuming that this is not just Reddit paying Gizmodo for an article to discourage people from using Lemmy by shaping the narrative that everyone is back on Reddit, then I would say it's just way too early for Gizmodo to make this call.
Enough people have come over to make a push/pull environment happen between the two sites. Time will tell which one pulls the most over to their side.
Dead to me 💁♂️