Most redditors who aren’t willing to bend over and take whatever Spez wants to shove into their asses have already switched to Lemmy.
We’ll get a few stragglers, but I wouldn’t expect much of a reaction at this point.
Today? Maybe a few. A week, a month, a year from now? Reddit is going to get worse. People will leave.
Looking at Twitter it’s clear some folks will never leave no matter how bad it gets, but plenty of folks will leave.
I have said it before, yes, people might leave. But the kind of people that stick so long to a dying platform are the ones that will never make it to Lemmy, Mastodon or whatever fediverse alternative you have.
None of these federated platforms employs any dark pattern algorithms to keep users engaged and clicking as much as possible. The kind of user that stays until the enshittification is not bearable anymore will not like the way the fediverse operates. So they go to some other place. Maybe its Facebook again, maybe Instagram, who knows.
The time is ripe for a new contender, so expect a bunch of The Next Big Thing ™ apps that are almost identical, begging for your email address and contacts list so they can sign all your friends up too!
They don’t deserve to come into our communities
Man i wish people would understand just how funny it would’ve been to just drop twitter literally the tay elon took over. Same with reddit. Of course you’ll always have people who don’t even know, don’t care or even like it. But fucking imagine the twitter takeover and only elon and a few of his dick sniffers are basically a private discord server
Reddit users have always been revolting
Can confirm
Advisor: “Sire, the peasants are revolting!”
Blackadder: “Yes they are disgusting arent they”
They already kicked out or scared off the most vocal last year.
Why would they revolt? I’d assume most of the people that cared enough to take the revolt over killing third party apps and all that have left or at least minimized their Reddit use. So that leaves bots, the apathetic, and niche community users who might complain but aren’t going anywhere.
Do another 2 day blackout. That’ll show 'em.
Ooh. Imagine the content of the investor calls if there is another blackout.
There would no longer be any hesitation to ban or censor everybody involved.
The only people left there actually engaging and not just checking out funny vids on their phone are drones, corpo bootlickers and scammers anyway lol
Sadly tons of subs are very active with real people. It’s a lot of momentum to shift.
Inertia
I have a 3p app that still seems to be working. I don’t log in, so I only read occasionally, but I have to say that the number of upvotes seem much higher than when I was using the site. I was a very active user who quit during the exodus (when Apollo went dark), but I don’t remember the number of upvotes being regularly in the thousands to tens of thousands.
It makes me wonder whether they’re artificially boosting traffic ahead of the IPO, to be honest. I mean, if they are, it probably would have leaked by now - but it still feels like it doesn’t line up with the third party traffic reports.
In any case, I think that going public is just going to increase the pressure for monetization, and Spez has already said how much he admires what Elon did with Twitter, so I think we know where it’s heading. It’s really just waiting for a replacement. Whether lemmy can be it or not is yet to be determined, but the enshittification has started and the migration will come as soon as someone drops a couple of billion building a service and app that’s a real substitute for the casual users.
Oh I’m not saying they aren’t, I’m just saying they’re corpo bootlickers who probably don’t have ublock installed because they think piracy is wrong or some shit and I’d never want to be around them anyway
Don’t forget about bots, when I occasionally find my way there because of some development problems, it’s just super low quality content on new posts
So many bots
the unruly userbase that largely rolled over and continued used reddit after its API changes with all but a meagre protest? Yeah im sure they’ll be fine.
Who cares?
The users who stayed are the chumps who rolled over and gave in. So no, they won’t revolt.
no
Why are we still talking about reddit?
Let’s ask the same question in another way.
Can we make its userbase revolt? If yes, how?
It’s always revolting.
Can we make it revolt harder, then?
More specifically: are there ways to encourage the current Reddit userbase to act so notoriously destructively towards the platform, that no sane investor would burn their money buying Reddit stock?
If you can control the porn, you control the internet.
So, if you can somehow trigger a revolt in all the NSFW subreddits, you win. Reddit stock will tank before it goes public.
“He who controls the spice(y content) controls the universe” - Baron Harkonnen in Frank Herbert’s Dune
That’s a fun idea - specially if we could recruit the Reddit “porn is bad!” crowds to raid Reddit NSFW subs.
Reddit users are all bots and conservatives these days. They are programmed to obey.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Reddit, the launchpad for many meme stocks, could now become one: The social media giant makes its debut on Wall Street Thursday in one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings of the year.
While AI search crawlers have been scraping data from websites including Reddit to develop their models without permission from those sites, lawsuits have recently put that practice under threat, so Google has been eager to secure licensing deals with major publishers.
The subreddit has previously made and ruined fortunes, temporarily driving up the price of stock in down-and-out companies like GameStop, the movie theater chain AMC, and Y2K smartphone maker BlackBerry.
Without doxxing myself, I thought my username was a clever allusion to one of my favorite books, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; the mods derided it as “one of them high-brow classic lit references about your destructive nature as a journalist.”
Unlike X, where blue checks with verified identities have always driven the conversation, Reddit has a flatter structure where communities form around niche topics, giving way to an unruliness that doesn’t respect anyone because of their title (especially because many people go by pseudonyms.)
Reddit has historically had no shortage of such content, even if it was later banned: take r/thefappening, where photos of naked celebrities stolen from their private iCloud accounts were posted, or r/thedonald, a MAGA subreddit that often violated the social network’s policies on hate speech.
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It’s half dead best timing for IPO launch.
