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?

  • BobosGonnaeGetYe6@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The fact that the Reddit API scandal has now been spun into some ‘battle’ of salty users vs Reddit is, in microcosm, a win for Reddit. By all appearances, when viewed under that lens, they ‘won’.

    It was never a struggle, it was a statement of intent. And that statement of intent has, in my opinion, been actioned because here we are now, with a promising alternative.

    Reddit will probably flourish under its new guise, accepting that isn’t a sort of capitulation. Just move on.

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          How much of those 3% are comprised of the 1% who are active posters and the 10% who contribute commenting instead of the ~90% lurkers?

          I’m willing to bet more than 20% of the people who left Reddit are frequent contributors instead of lurkers. Those are the users that drive traffic in the long run.

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            1 year ago

            I was definitely a Reddit power user. To the point that people who wanted to dig at me thought “look at all the time you spend on Reddit” would insult me for some reason. They lost me last week and I don’t plan on coming back. I pinned a “Reddit sucks, come to Lemmy” post on my profile and logged out.

            I won’t say that I was keeping any decently-large subreddits alive singlehandedly, I didn’t have that ability or power, but I was definitely a major contributor.

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              1 year ago

              Yup, that’s the point. Most of the people who moved away from Reddit are the people who spent the most time there interacting and contributing to content, and those are the most affected by Huffman’s crap. (edit) Most of the people who remained are lurkers, and if a platform only has lurkers, then who’s producing the content? It’s obviously an hyperbole, but it skews the userbase even more towards having more lurkers than posters, and it sets a trend.(/edit)

              To be honest, I didn’t even use any 3rd party Reddit apps (even though I was a serial commenter on things I had interest) before coming to Lemmy at the beginning of the protests. I only did so out of my own “moral” choice and because I’m a FOSS enthusiast.