johndroid 26 points 3 years ago

Most everyone who left will return. Some thousands of users will actually leave Reddit permanently—but they will be replaced by users who have never used a third-party app, don't care about privacy or accessibility or anything but memes and boobs and endless scrolling.

I wish them no ill will, but I no longer wish to be in their company.

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drlecompte 6 points 3 years ago

If it turns out like that, I'll be permanently leaving Reddit behind. But for now, there is still just so much good content and good community there, so for me it all depends on the quality subreddits thriving or not. I have 14 years of history there, it's much harder for me to burn my bridges with Reddit than it was with Twitter or Facebook. I'm kind of hoping Reddit switches tack and finds a way to run a sustainable business without becoming an ad-driven hellhole, but for now it seems like they don't really care about their most valuable users, the moderators. I fear we'll be seeing a steady decline in quality subreddits in favor of whatever brings in the most ad money. Pretty sure that won't be /r/askHistorians or its ilk. The IPO is a bad omen, imho. It means revenue and profit will never be enough, and they will be chasing money forever.

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UTJD16 6 points 3 years ago

Why not go back and encourage your favorite subreddits to make the jump to similar communities over here? Lemme just needs continued infusion of content and a little time.

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bionicjoey 2 points 3 years ago

I'll continue poking my head in, but without RiF I definitely am not going to spend hours upon hours doomscrolling on Reddit like I used to.

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Ceedling 1 point 3 years ago

My question is- why not start moving some of that content to Lemmy? If users who have contributed value to reddit replicated that content over to Lemmy, it seems like that would be fertilizer to the soil. I know it's not reasonable to expect it to be done all at once, but if the few thousands just chipped away at moving even some of their best picks over the next few months, I think that would help with the growth on Lemmy. (Unfortunately, my contributions would be more akin to manure...)

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Zuberi 1 point 3 years ago

Acting like millions of users shit posting isn't hurting their bottomline is so dumb.

Most everyone who left will not return. Maybe to watch the dumpster fire, but w/ an ad blocker and no money being made for reddit.

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