I'm glad you found your way here but FFS stop whining about John Oliver! Reddit mods are doing this for the greater good, the same reason why many of us are pirates, GREEDY CORPORATIONS.
People like you are the reason why Reddit will eventually win, grow up.
It’s incredibly childish to asume a bunch of John Oliver memes are going to make Reddit "lose". They’ll "win" no matter what.
Once people start getting tired of the John Oliver meme, they’ll either just stop and leave Reddit, or continue to use it normally. Mark my words: in 2 months, go and click the profiles of everyone memeing around with the Oliver stuff, and most of them will have normal activity on Reddit as if nothing had happened. And subs that continue with the memes are just going to be abandoned while replacement subs will surface and get bigger than the originals.
The only way Reddit is going to feel a hit is if hundreds of thousands people edit their entire comment and post history, delete their accounts, and never visit the site again. But then again, Facebook had a much, MUCH worse situation and they’re still fine.
Of course these games are not going to last forever, but every day that subs are flooded with John Oliver is an extra day for people to learn about the drama and to consider moving to another platform. For subs that were forced open, it was either this or already going back to normal.
Is Facebook really fine though? All the interesting ppl I knew stopped using it a long time ago. People just use it to message a few specific ppl they know IRL and trade shit on FB marketplace, or spam pictures of their baby nobody wants to see, but everyone knows and acknowledges how garbage it has become.
Yeah, that’s super hip and all, but Facebook is still valued at 711.96 BILLION dollars, and growing. Just to put that into perspective, Reddit is valued at 2% of that…
As you can see, all the interesting ppl you know leaving the platform didn’t make anything to them as a company, and it’s exactly what is going to happen with Reddit as most people don’t even care about the API thing. The official app has 100+ million downloads vs Sync, for example, which has 1+ million downloads on the Play Store (and I’m sure that on the iOS side with Apollo it’s exactly the same if download data was public). Thousands of new adopters will keep arriving every single day, new communities will be created. Next thing you know, your grandma hangs around in knitting subreddits.
As I’ve said, corpos will win at the end of the day, unless they get the middle finger from everyone, not just the 1% of its community.
It depends which "interesting people" you're talking about. I'd say investors like Peter Thiel (*spits on the ground) leaving the company were a key sign that it's past its prime.
For reddit, it doesn't need to be a middle finger from everyone. It needs to be some critical mass - and not even a critical mass of users, but of key content creators. However, all the bots and fake stories on reddit will likely help it limp on a while longer.
I never said the majority of people in the world are all that wise.. p sure the only reason we've gotten where we are, the only reason we have anything nice we have, is by a rare few in the population questioning the aimless groupthink momentum.
Look at all the garbage music celebrities that 80% of people worship, and how that shapes what's played on the radio, at the gym, the grocery store. This seems to just be human nature. Most people are just going to follow orders dictated by pop culture. Is that who you want to be?
@LoFi-Enchilada @dopethrone @stroller @artaxadepressedhorse Market valuation is a bullshit number. The rules are made up and the dollars don't matter at that level.
@LoFi-Enchilada @dopethrone @stroller If they stop and leave Reddit, Reddit Inc loses. If they continue using it normally, well they can't because mods will delete their post. If Reddit Inc replaces the mods, it still loses because who will those mods be? Probably power-hungry Nazis. It may look good in the short term because there are mods but Reddit Inc will lose in the medium-to-long term.
To be fair, Digg's death happened before many Reddit users were born
Reddit isn't going to win or lose, it already lost. It has never been profitable, has been outcompeted by Instagram and TikTok, and was already showing signs of failure. The one thing that they had going for them was their relationship with the community, and they couldn't even maintain that. At this point Reddit is a sinking ship, average people will move on to the next big thing and the power users will move to other places they can get their content seen, and Reddit may not be in the grave but they've already dug it and they are on the edge.
Yeah this current chain of events is just making a lot more people open their eyes. Even me, deep down I already knew Reddit was going down the drain for a long time already, but especially within my RiF and curated feed, I was shielded from most of it. Now the mask is coming off and everyone can see it for what it is, another corporation that's going to do whatever it takes to squeeze the last penny. I feel sad, I'll miss my old Reddit, but it's the cycle of life. The king is dead, long live the king!
Right.
So according to your detailed timeline, when is Reddit going to see a decline in new users and total monthly users, because it has only went up and up with no signs of stopping. Is that part of being on the edge of their grave, or just an unexplainable anomaly?
Also, neither TikTok or Instagram are discussion forums. TikTok is a short-video platform and instagram is a photo sharing platform. Your comparison is like saying McDonald’s outcompeted Ticketmaster.
If you haven't noticed, reddit has a MASSIVE bot problem, I'd wager at least 1/3 of the posts on r/all are from repost bots and copy pased comments from bots probably about the same. How can you be sure these numbers are are even from real users?
This shit ass, tried to post this comment don't even know if it posted "timeout" on a 900 mbps connection.
Thank whoever made this website and this community.
DbZer0, head mod of r/piracy; this is the 'official' main hub now.
Getting you guys here was the goal
Getting people off of reddit and onto Fediverse is the point of those protests with John Oliver. So, they worked. Welcome! This is actually the official /r/piracy replacement!
DbZer0 is our God now.
You wouldn't download a God
Supreme Commander
Downloading Nier:Automata
BECOME AS GODS
Is there a good substitute for /r/trackers? That was the only place I had to discuss when one of them disappears overnight.
There are a few, not too active at the moment but worth starting a thread there if you have tracker specific discussions
Cheers!
@plumbercraic Looks like we need someone to make one *wink*
Maybe not yet. https://sub.rehab/
Anyone who is really a pirate will immediately see this is the best route of course, abandon reddit, why would you want to support a shitty company? like, would you pay Nintendo premium for a 30y old ROM with a inferior emulation?.
Reddit is going to shit anyways with their policies so it wouldn't surprise me if they ban communities like r/piracy in the future, moving to an independent and resilient platform like Lemmy is the best choice.
@dopethrone Looks like we need someone to make one wink
thanks for using Leebra!
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The John Oliver memes and getting you off the sub to here, was the idea you know.
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