Hi all! What’s your opinion? Let’s pretend reddit would give in to the protest and cancel the plan to increase the API pricing. Would all of you go back to Reddit or stay on Lemmy?
I mean… what has been said by the CEO cannot be unsaid now. We all now know what we are in the eyes of the CEO.
I’m sticking with Lemmy because it’s picking up all the people smart enough to figure out how to use Lemmy, leaving all the morons that were making Reddit shit to begin with on Reddit. Huge win for my sanity.
Hehe that’s kind of the same thing I am experiencing with Mastodon
If they gave in on day one or two, I may have stuck around.
But as it stands, a week without Reddit has effectively broken my addiction. I’ve already uninstalled Sync from my phone, deleted my comments, and I only see Reddit pages when they show up as relevant search results.
So they could reverse direction tomorrow and I would be indifferent at best.
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The chances of Reddit backing way off of their current path are about zero. At a certain level, it’s understandable: they’re a giant platform on the web, but they’re unprofitable - they’d like to actually make money, which I get. But their approaches and handling of it really leave me cold, and I’ve already been frustrated by the ever increasing amount of bot content.
My guess is Reddit will do just fine for the foreseeable future. This “mass exodus” is really just a blip for them; the majority of users don’t care. But I’m enjoying it here, and I like the idea of helping a new, better discussion and aggregator site take hold. Maybe someday Lemmy will replace Reddit, or maybe something else will, but for now I’m just going to let Reddit be and enjoy the experience here.
Maybe if reddit didn’t spend millions a year delivering images and videos through i.reddit and v.reddit instead of letting the perfectly viable 3rd party platforms continue to like they had 8+ years previously they wouldn’t be bleeding money for quite literally no reason.
I also think Reddit is far from dead. The blackout will end and then Reddit still has many more users and thus much more content. That pull back people after a while.
I just hope this boost for the Fediverse brought it to a sustainable level until the next Reddit scandal. Maybe the IPO or whatever.
I won’t go back. This is the final step in a long journey of enshittification - the Conde Nast sale, proliferation of power mods, the new UI redesign, subreddit ban waves, the Ellen Pao and Aimee Knight incidents etc.
It will linger on for some time but I see it ending up like facebook.
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I wouldn’t go back to reddit as a poster/commentator if they reversed their decision. But rather I would continue to use it as a resource, as I usually find typing in “<query> reddit” into Google to be far more useful and time saving than sifting through irrelevant search results and clickbait news articles for a simple question.
Nah, even if they reversed the bad changes they’re making completely I still wouldn’t go back. I’m over spez’s attitude. Plus, reddit was toxic af–I’m excited to be exploring a new community instead.
Will reddit continue? Yes.
Will reddit ever make a profit? No.
Reddit permbanned me with no explanation, so I can never go back.
reddit has too many toxic people
I think they’ll weather it. But once third party clients go there’s really nothing left to stop them going into full user-hostile monetisation mode. So next will be old Reddit, more ads, maybe the mobile site finally gets removed, nsfw banned, etc.
They’ll kill themselves in the process of trying to look profitable for an IPO.
People will keep using Reddit until an easier alternative arises. Most people don’t care about any of the benefits the fediverse offers, they just want a service that’s easy to use and delivers content to them, that’s it.
I tried migrating when voat got popular and for awhile I used both. Voat started attracting worse and worse people though so eventually I left.
I would probably use both and hopefully Lemmy can avoid voats fate.
Wasn’t the main selling point of voat the “free speech” angle? It would make sense that it would attract people whose speech got them banned from other social media.
The Fediverse’s selling point is “not run by corporate greed-heads,” which is going to attract a different demographic.
Sure was. That was when Reddit banned r/fatpeoplehate and several other subs. I tried Voat out of curiosity but it definitely attracted a certain kind of person.
This time around I feel like the types of people that have and will leave Reddit are more ‘power users/techies’ whatever you want to call it. And so far this place seems pretty nice!
PS: Woo! First post!
voat was an absolute toxic cespool like six months after launch. Completely unusable.
I stopped using it and then came back a few months later just to see how it was doing… Wow it was awful lol
