• UnfortunateShort
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    301 year ago

    I’m very curious how this is going to play out. This mostly concerns the core userbase, as in mods and the people who are the most active on Reddit. If a significant portion of those wanders off (or is straight up banned), I could see the platform desolate slowly and painfully.

    I mean, they lose content and moderation. I would be very surprised if they can replace the volunteers and still maintain the quality of the moderation.

    • HobbitFoot
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      301 year ago

      My guess is that Reddit loses about 5% of traffic by shutting off API access. It isn’t great, but it isn’t bad either. Spez treats it as a win.

      Mod burnout becomes a big thing in a year, with many major subs starting to lock threads and blanket ban harder as the more experienced mods leave and the new set isn’t really prepared to handle the workload. A lot of the best of this new block are going to be alt-right, and you’ll slowly see subs become more friendly to alt-right views. Mod abuse gets a lot worse.

      As the entire site becomes r/conservative, expect the fights that happened with r/The_Donald to be worse and make the site more unusable. This will probably drive off more users as “everything is political”. Reddit won’t keep its promises on building better mod toolkits, and a lot of LBGT groups leave for other sites.

      As the website starts to see a shrinking user base and still hasn’t made money, either Spez or a successor goes full Twitter Musk and cuts staff to the bone in hopes of trying to keep some revenue.

      • @[email protected]
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        191 year ago

        Good observation about how enshittification tends to come with a drift to the far right. At the moment one of the refreshing things about Lemmy is that you can have a discussion in peace without all those people piling in. I hope this can last.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Enshitification doesn’t happen over night. It might be months before the needle moves. Platforms die because users seek alternatives, but everyone has a different threshold for when they decide to jump ship. Most people just are not paying attention and will only leave when they experience the shit of Enshitification first hand.

      And that hasn’t happened on Reddit. Yet…

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I left reddit when the subs blacked out. My wife is a RIF user, but has continued to use it. She’s said she’s leaving when RIF stops working. I bet a bunch of users will leave when “reddit” stops working.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        I also think reddit is still the overwhelmingly greatest source of human-written information and discussion on the planet. That will take a while to replace.

        I have tried googling for things without adding on “reddit” these past two weeks, and it’s… not good.

        • Marxine
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          21 year ago

          It’s tiresome to dive through dozens of stackoverflow answers to issues that no longer work since 4 years ago.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Idk their example search for “python exceptions” has the #14 link for Ruby exceptions, #15 for C++ exceptions, #17 for Make exceptions (no mention of the word python in this one).

            It seems like many of the links at this point have zero mentions of the word “python” at all. Why are people paying for this?

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              Idk why you’re seeing that, I’m not.

              Anyway their focus is quality over quantity. The first 13 results should have given you whatever you needed. There’s always junk at the end of searches.

      • @TheInternetCanBeNice
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        41 year ago

        Twitter had to kill 3rd party apps twice in order for the mastodon migration to happen. First they did it in 2011 and then again after Elon bought the company.

        I imagine a true Twitter > Mastodon level migration away from Reddit won’t happen yet. But once they inevitably dump old.reddit.com, it might.