I decided to take a peek at Reddit to see what kind of activity is happening, a good handful of the subreddits I am subscribed to are still super active with posts and commenters.
There’s quite a few news articles on the front page regarding Spez and the blackouts, I am surprised those articles are even still up for people to see.
The comment section is filled with people saying how they should just kick the mods out of the dark Reddit’s and take over, ofcourse these posts are heavily upvoted…
Perhaps there is some AI activity going on, I mean it’s kind of easy to do in this day and age. You just prompt an army of AI bots to defend Reddit, and try to keep users engaged.
I am so happy I found Lemmy, and I am so happy that there is a comfortable level of activity. Sure it’s only a small fraction of what Reddit is activity wise, but it’s so much more hearty and welcoming.
Reddit has just turned into one big toxic mess. Lemmy reminds me of what Reddit used to be 10 years ago.
The majority of Reddit’s 57m users do not use 3rd party apps. In fact I’d argue most don’t (or didn’t) even know you could use a 3rd party app or understand why you’d want to. To them Reddit is just the app. So yeah, of course they’re not participating in the protest.
I don’t expect Reddit to go away or to be adversely impacted by this movement. But I’m not going to worry about what goes on there, similar to how I don’t have a FB account and I don’t worry about what the 1B other users are doing. I left Reddit for myself, if other people continue to use it then so be it.
I’ve been on Reddit 14 years. One account. Never used an app. Still used old.reddit til the last.
Deleted all my comments and then my account yesterday.
You’re right on the FB thing tho. Did the same thing in 2012. Took a few years for the popularity of “delete your facebook” to catch on, but now the idea that facebook is bad for you is super mainstream compared to 2012.
I use a 3rd party app maybe 1/4th of my time on reddit, so I could’ve technically gone without it. But I think anyone keeping up with the current situation can see old.reddit.com is on the chopping block soon, if not next. When reddit’s admin team said half a year ago that the APIs aren’t going anywhere for at least the next couple of years, and now have to deal with being called out on their deception, and even adding new lies onto the pile like the whole Apollo debacle, you know they can’t be trusted in any capacity to keep promises.
If keeping an API accessible that does the exact same thing as their own app is too much of an expense to keep open, imagine how much maintaining a completely separate front end for their entire website must ‘cost’. And that’s in part why I’ve made this switch now and not when old.reddit.com gets killed eventually.