The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. It's the official end of the battle. The Reddit protest is over, and Reddit won.
The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.::Reddit corporate claims victory over its disgruntled mods as r/aww, r/pics, and r/videos abandon the “John Oliver rule.”
Real or faked? Because they have tons of bots and paid traffic to make the site look busier than it actually is. Steve figured that out years ago because he’s a sociopathic liar with access to venture capital and an IPO to defraud.
“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
There is no easy to use singular Reddit replacement. (The fediverse is not easy to use to normal people.)
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.
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.
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.
No surprise here, just like Bernie Sanders, Mueller, and everything else, le reddit blindly overestimated what was going to happen. I’m willing to bet less than 10% of reddit even knows there were other apps, they just want cat pics and reposted tiktoks.
Reddit lost the trust of many users, a non insignificant part of contributors and moderators left, the enshittification of the platform is not going to stop but they lost a big part of what made Reddit great.
They damaged their image and popularity.
It’s like saying Elon won by trashing Twitter. Sure he does what he wants with it but making your platform less desirable sure isn’t a win for the platform.
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My old time allocated to Reddit is now allocated to Lemmy (65%) Reddit (35%).
And Infinity for Lemmy is making Lemmy even more familiar than ever.
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Let Reddit become Myspace. Lemmy wins, however we use it.
Myspace? You already got reddits predecessor. Digg
We did it Reddit!
Le epic reddit moment?!?!
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I wonder how many users and how much traffic they lost in the process.
Real or faked? Because they have tons of bots and paid traffic to make the site look busier than it actually is. Steve figured that out years ago because he’s a sociopathic liar with access to venture capital and an IPO to defraud.
I’ve been following the graphs here, and it’s sure seems to be declining. But I don’t know how accurate it is.
https://subredditstats.com/
“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
Lemmy won imo
There’s two problems…
There is no easy to use singular Reddit replacement. (The fediverse is not easy to use to normal people.)
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…
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.
Well yeah because all the people who cared moved to Lemmy or kbin
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.
Hey I’m here so guess what
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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.
No surprise here, just like Bernie Sanders, Mueller, and everything else, le reddit blindly overestimated what was going to happen. I’m willing to bet less than 10% of reddit even knows there were other apps, they just want cat pics and reposted tiktoks.
I won’t really call that a win,
Reddit lost the trust of many users, a non insignificant part of contributors and moderators left, the enshittification of the platform is not going to stop but they lost a big part of what made Reddit great. They damaged their image and popularity.
It’s like saying Elon won by trashing Twitter. Sure he does what he wants with it but making your platform less desirable sure isn’t a win for the platform.