How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
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Users were outraged, but Reddit mostly won.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1190537

How is reddit post protest, did it really win over protesters? Did the ones who left make a dent? Or like all things before, did it ultimately do nothing?

  • Arotrios@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    Before the protest, going to /r/all would show you posts with ages between 30 minutes and 3 hours. Today, on /r/all, there isn’t a post less than 10 hours old in the first 40 entries. The content has changed from primarily trending news interspersed with memes to about 90% memes and shitposts padded with a few soft news summaries and opinion pieces.

    In comparison, my Fediverse feed has exploded. The quality of content is at the level of pre-Digg reddit, and the commentary at a significantly higher level. There’s still not as much of an audience, particularly in niche communities, but it feels like that’s changing quickly. It’s clear to me that the creative drivers of reddit - the mods, the content creators, and the engaged commentators - have left, and that the traffic is being maintained by a mostly non-participating readership that uses Reddit as entertainment, not a community.

    Reddit crushed the creative spirit of its most active populations. Whatever wins Spez is claiming, it’s come at the cost of what made the site worthwhile to begin with.

  • RxBrad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    As long as we can keep up the content here, this has replaced Reddit for me.

    The Connect for Reddit app is much more enjoyable to use than the official Reddit app. Heck, I even like it better than I did Sync for Reddit.

    • Thwompthwomp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      This place is feeling a lot like the Reddit from 2008. Just get some rage comics back and this place will be 🔥🔥🔥.

      Lemmy takes a bit more curation to start finding communities and has some rough spots, but I’m super excited for this.

    • GiddyGap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I personally think Jerboa is a the smoothest experience so far. But I’m planning to jump to Sync when it becomes available.

    • ShadowRunner@kbin.social
      01·
      2 years ago

      Who actually gives a fuck?

      A lot of people do.

      What Reddit has done and is doing is very big news due to their size and the role they play on the internet. Just because you have a teenager’s snarky “who cares” attitude doesn’t mean that this isn’t important to a large portion of the online population, including many of the people who left reddit and came here.

      • FaceDeer@kbin.social
        0·
        2 years ago

        And also even though lots of people like to say there’s no “competition” between Reddit and the Fediverse, that’s not actually true. Social networks need a critical mass of people participating in order for them to be good. The two systems might not be in financial competition but they are in competition for users.

  • Solivine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    Of course they’re gonna claim they won. Most people don’t realise the sheer amount of bot generated content on there anyway, which has only increased.

    • Tygr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      It’s going to dramatically increase. BotDefence, a popular moderator tool, is shutting down