Think I may just leave the subs I moderate down for longer, then.
Think I may just leave the subs I moderate down for longer, then.
I blocked them at the DNS level too. Helps break the habit and avoids me accidently clicking on a reddit link.
This comment may also help.
This is just blatant "fuck your concerns it will blow over anyway".
Yeah. This is literally a warning. Not that many users have actually stopped using reddit, it's such a force of habit.
But once their favorite apps, that all their muscle memory has become trained to use, stops working?
They'll be gone.
@buckykat Maybe people likely to leave are people likely to block adverts?
More likely they have enough users to display all the paid for advert impressions many times over anyway so a fraction of them leaving still leaves the same number of advert impressions sold.
He' right that it'll blow over, until the next time.
Even if they lose say 5% of their readers/posters on this wave, it won't be all of them, and everyone will stop talking about it at some point.
Fediverse is growing in waves. Always has. Next big wave probably won't be Reddit. My money would be on Youtube or Github doing the corporate lockdown thing and making their users explore distributed alternatives.
Oh boy, I hope this statement pisses off a lot of people and motivates them to extend the blackout. My only criticism of the blackout was that there was an end date, Reddit only has to wait it out temporarily in that case, but idk this statement is kinda ridiculous. I hope people take it as the spit in the face it is, who tf is getting violent over subreddits going private? no one, extend the blackout!
Does the man not realize the absolute exodus the users are trying to warn him about? Blow over? Reddit will die overnight once people can't use their favorite third party apps anymore, or browse their porn subs.
I know the 80/20 rule, and that a big chunk of that 20 uses apps, but I’m not convinced. I thought the same thing about twitter when they killed off third party apps, and I ended up being the only one in my circle who moved to mastodon.
Twitter's first party app was never as hated as reddit's, was it?
On twitter you follow people, on reddit, you follow subjects. The latter you can move to another platform, even with just partial user migration. The former, not so much.
When you are held by your connection to other users, you're a lot more stuck to a platform. Reddit doesn't have that nearly to the same extent. I feel that's one of the critical mistakes the guy at the top is making.
I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.
Uh yeah, if you have to tell your staff not to wear their otherwise innocuously branded clothing for fear of getting the shit kicked out of them ... you might just be the problem here.
Fediverse will still take years to get up, but this was a massive boost forward for it, the momentum has shifted.
I feel with reddit there's a bigger chance for it happening than for Twitter since the network effect is smaller
A shame that mastodon seems to be soo much more "ripe" with more aps and better infrastructure than lemmy - if there where 3-4 apps to choose from already instead of just the one chances would be pretty good for lemmy establishing itself for real
Right now it just is a "too rough" experience for most people
For sure dude I honestly have been in IT and networking for 20yrs and never heard or knew about any of this. I think it's great!
Blow this, reddit
It blew me right over here to Lemmy
He used rhetoric that any terrible leader would use. The threat of violence is to separate them from us. We see it play out with all our favorite narcissists that run business and our country. Glad I blocked them.
I mean to be honest there's a good chance he's not wrong. I really hope it won't and they will reconsider their decisions but knowing the majority of people this will last for about a week, there is still a decent amount of people who do use the official app and there are a lot of subs that, even if they're part of this black out now, will go up again because a big part their community did not take this situation seriously at all and felt like it's just outrage culture thing or just a temp solidarity thing. Even if it will blow over reddit will never be the same for sure, but it still might be profitable enough to keep it running the way it is. Hope that im wrong though.
Cool. I was going to hold out hope that something might change. But I've just deleted my account of 12+ years.
Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all this to blow over!
I can't wait to see how this all pans out. Will we see a "we listened" grovelling non-apology once they realise their core users are gone?
You know what, even if it does and everyone goes back. I will be continuing to hang out here I like this community and it's worth keeping this going regardless!
Sadly, I don't think he's wrong. It's quite easy to see how:
That being said, I personally have been enjoying the discussions being had on Lemmy. It seems to prompt for better discussion, since it appears that most people here are more tech-adept and willing to go through growing pains. I'll likely stick around, but I wouldn't be surprised if the number of active users here drops once this blackout ends. Still hoping for a change.
Reddit did a lot of things right, but imo, one of the biggest reasons it stuck around and surpassed what Digg and other link aggregation sites did was the convenience factor. You were able to find good information all consolidated to the specific niche that you were searching for; I work in IT, so lord knows I consulted /r/sysadmin quite frequently to get answers. The voting system allowed for the best advice to be at the very top (most of the time, at least...) You're correct that the info you provided was probably sourced from somewhere else; however, you were the one to put efforts to find all of that info and succinctly gather it into something cohesive.
Contributions provided by people like you were the reason why people continued to go to the site, including myself. For that, I give them credit, as they were one of the best websites to consult as a knowledgebase in a near infinite range of topics. Because of that, I'd be a little hesitant to remove your hard work for the bad decisions they've bad in the past few weeks; however, I'm in full agreement that it's time to put your input and value towards another website that can hopefully continue to carry the mantle of being a valuable resource for all Internet users.
You are definitely correct though; there are a lot of "stranded" users who are trying to navigate these interesting times!
I'm already there
He's using the kind of language that abusers do.
Dude's unironically saying "you'll be back" lmao. Well, it sucks that the intimidation tactic of demonstrating our numbers and solidarity with a short strike didn't work as I originally feared. I said a couple times in the lead up to the strike that only striking for two days instead of indefinitely was ultimately going to be a performative move because it would give them assurance that it would be temporary and so ultimately the scene as a temporary inconvenience at most by Reddit management. That to really make them hurt and to make them scared a sizeable portion of subreddits would have to go dark indefinitely.
Someone pointed out to me that the performativity was kind of the point, because it was just a demonstration of concern and solidarity, and I had hoped that would work as a sort of forewarning of a more serious strike if they didn't listen, but that didn't pan out I guess.
There is still the end of the month API deadline, Reddit is expecting everyone to return and forget the whole thing, which could work like the other "blowups" if the issue actually was over by then, but it isn't. If and when the 3rd party apps go dark it's going to kick off another wave of protest, and this time it's not going to end until 3rd party apps are available again. What is left to be seen is how many users, moderators and subs are actually willing to participate, and how many just throw in the towel and give up.
lol.
Even if it does, it's brought irreparable damage to Reddit.
Realistically, it will. What’s left behind depends on the mods and users. Reddit isn’t going away that easily. Time will show impact
I hope he's wrong, but I'm pretty sure he's right. 2 days isn't going to change anything, elpecially if he's willing to lie about everything.
I was listening to guys on a podcast point out that the last ten years or so have been an unusually stable era for online content platforms, and that in the past these kinds of companies used to blow in and out all the time. The contraction of free capital available to tech caused by rising interest rates might be the thing that returns us to that old status quo.
thanks for using Leebra!
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The Verge posted the actual memo that was released, you can find that below and the article here
To me, this looks like it was absolutely destined for a public release/intended leak. The victimisation says it all with them crying that their employees are going to get attacked. This is a simply absurd statement.
Any indicated statement from a CEO of a community forum that insinuates that their users, who are currently undergoing a completely peaceful protest, are in fact, volatile enough to attack employees simply doing their job has completely lost the plot. Their position as CEO is completely untenable.
Thanks Reddit for throwing extra wood on the fire. I was getting concerned that it wasn't raging enough.
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