Hi all! What’s your opinion? Let’s pretend reddit would give in to the protest and cancel the plan to increase the API pricing. Would all of you go back to Reddit or stay on Lemmy?
I mean… what has been said by the CEO cannot be unsaid now. We all now know what we are in the eyes of the CEO.
I’m sticking with Lemmy because it’s picking up all the people smart enough to figure out how to use Lemmy, leaving all the morons that were making Reddit shit to begin with on Reddit. Huge win for my sanity.
Hehe that’s kind of the same thing I am experiencing with Mastodon
The chances of Reddit backing way off of their current path are about zero. At a certain level, it’s understandable: they’re a giant platform on the web, but they’re unprofitable - they’d like to actually make money, which I get. But their approaches and handling of it really leave me cold, and I’ve already been frustrated by the ever increasing amount of bot content.
My guess is Reddit will do just fine for the foreseeable future. This “mass exodus” is really just a blip for them; the majority of users don’t care. But I’m enjoying it here, and I like the idea of helping a new, better discussion and aggregator site take hold. Maybe someday Lemmy will replace Reddit, or maybe something else will, but for now I’m just going to let Reddit be and enjoy the experience here.
Maybe if reddit didn’t spend millions a year delivering images and videos through i.reddit and v.reddit instead of letting the perfectly viable 3rd party platforms continue to like they had 8+ years previously they wouldn’t be bleeding money for quite literally no reason.
I’m guessing they believe their long term profitability will come from the content, so they want to own as much as possible.
I also think Reddit is far from dead. The blackout will end and then Reddit still has many more users and thus much more content. That pull back people after a while.
I just hope this boost for the Fediverse brought it to a sustainable level until the next Reddit scandal. Maybe the IPO or whatever.
If they gave in on day one or two, I may have stuck around.
But as it stands, a week without Reddit has effectively broken my addiction. I’ve already uninstalled Sync from my phone, deleted my comments, and I only see Reddit pages when they show up as relevant search results.
So they could reverse direction tomorrow and I would be indifferent at best.
I won’t go back. This is the final step in a long journey of enshittification - the Conde Nast sale, proliferation of power mods, the new UI redesign, subreddit ban waves, the Ellen Pao and Aimee Knight incidents etc.
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I don’t care much for reddit as a whole. Since I joined lemmy have I used my phone so many more hours per day that it is scary. I was only on reddit for a few minutes per day… So reddit is maybe better for my health 😂 The only sad thing is that the niches subs I liked didn’t even seem to know about this whole thing and nobody seems to come over either… So no I won’t go back to reddit. But I am not as black and white either, for morals sake will I not use reddit until after July and after that may I check out my niched subs maybe once a week or less. But we will see maybe I don’t even care to have a look when that time comes. Just like fb I just logg in to see i don’t miss any major events maybe 4 times per year haha
Nvm i just found out that you can use RSS feeds: https://lemmy.ml/post/1297303
So maybe I set that up instead some time when I feel I which to check them out
If they gave into the protest AND gave a broader signal that they cared about their content creators and their volunteer mods in broader ways, then sure I’d go back. I’d probably keep exploring Lemmy, though, as I feel like big social media sites will inevitable devolve into whatever Facebook looks like.
I would be on both. I’m assuming that CEO isn’t long for that position but we’ll see. Reddit survives though. It’s really a small mod protest with the majority of casual users not caring about it. However the scab mods that will end up being put in place will soon realize how hard this volunteer job is and may never know how the alt apps assisted so well with it. I think the best thing subs could do at this point is open up and let the spam fly TBH.
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It will linger on for some time but I see it ending up like facebook.
“Ending up like Facebook” is framed as a bad thing here, but it’s an amazingly great outcome if you’re a Reddit executive or investor. Facebook may have fallen out of favor among the kinds of people who post on Lemmy, but it is massively profitable and is either the #2 or #3 most visited site on the Internet depending on whether you count YouTube as part of Google. Reddit would love to fail like that!
I wouldn’t go back to reddit as a poster/commentator if they reversed their decision. But rather I would continue to use it as a resource, as I usually find typing in “<query> reddit” into Google to be far more useful and time saving than sifting through irrelevant search results and clickbait news articles for a simple question.
Give it time, and more people post here, you might find “<query> lemmy” become a thing
Nah, even if they reversed the bad changes they’re making completely I still wouldn’t go back. I’m over spez’s attitude. Plus, reddit was toxic af–I’m excited to be exploring a new community instead.
Reddit will be absolutely fine but I don’t see myself going back. I realized I only ever used it for a few things, mostly memes. I can get that here so I’m sticking it out and helping build something new
Does reddit have a chance? Yes. Is there a chance i go back? Getting slimmer with move spaz makes.
I deleted my Reddit account, and now just kind of wander the digital world, like Caine in Kung Fu.
