“We absolutely must ship what we said we would.”
    • derived_allegory@beehaw.orgEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      That is just how they see their users. People high up do not see reddit as a community, but a bunch of “quality text” producing machine that will make them money.

  • pbjamm@beehaw.orgEnglish
    17·
    2 years ago

    It certainly will eventually, all things do. The real question is what Reddit looks like after.
    I suspect it will be something quite different, and something I want no part of any more.

    • Swuden@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      For sure it will pass. I think the reddit landscape in the aftermath largely depends on the duration of the blackout. I think for people go truly shake the habit, it needs to go on for a signficant amount of time. Otherwise the masses will return, forget, and move on.

      • prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I’m currently using the Jerboa app. To put it nicely, it’s rather lacking, and that might stop people from switching. But it’s still a significantly better experience for my use case than the native Reddit app. No clutter, no ads, no useless whitespace. Just the posts and the comments.

        When the RIF developer makes a lemmy app, I think that might be the tipping point for a lot of people.

  • DreamySweet@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    He’s right. Most of the site will go back to normal on the 14th. A 2 day protest only tells them that the users will accept any change they make with only minimal whining.

        • SamC@lemmy.nzEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I agree, although the process of replacing mods will be pretty messy. You might have to do that for 1000’s of subs. A reddit employee is going to go through each one, kick off the old mods, set it to public, and recruit new mods? That’s a long winded process to do it at scale.

          I think in reality there won’t be that many subs that stay dark permanently, but even if a handful of bigger subs hold out, it will be a shitshow.

          Reddit won’t really be the same again…

    • LockelyEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      The protest is a warning shot as to what the site will look like come July 1 if they don’t back down.

  • femboy_link.mp4@beehaw.orgEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    He’s right, it will. And that’s the problem.

    A two day blackout means nothing to Spez and Reddit. What it tells them is “we can treat the userbase and developers like shit and they’ll still use our platform for the other 363 days of the year”.

    The only thing that will force Reddit to the negotiating table is blacking out indefinitely. Not a single protesting subreddit opens back up until they realise what made the company so attractive to investors in the first place.

  • Gravelsack@lemmy.oneEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Idk I’m liking Lemmy quite a bit and have no real appetite to go back to a social media platform that is hostile towards it’s users.

    • ericthered926@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Agreed! It’s a little rough right now, but it honestly feels like Reddit did years ago. I hope we get enough action over here to pull people away for good

    • sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I thought that I’d have trouble breaking the reddit feed addiction, but I just jumped in with both feet. Scrubbed all my content to say something like “Reddit doesn’t care about it’s users, so I don’t care about reddit. Fuck Spez” and then deleted my account. It took awhile to run through all my comments, but I left and haven’t felt the need to go back. I’m realizing what a shithole that site was for my mental health.

  • oskiboi@feddit.deEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    It’s settled then.

    Tbh, while a few days ago I was hoping it would all blow over eventually and reddit would come to their senses.

    But now I kinda like it here. It’s a little rough around the edges, but we will smooth it over together. Today was the first time where I actually thought “damn, what if reddit does return back to normal? I’m not even sure I want it to.”

    Oh well, imma stay here ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    • D2L@lemmy.oneEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      Does it drop the arm here too? Or done just for old time sake?

      • oskiboi@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        it wasn’t on purpose haha. it’s just the way markdown formatting interprets backslashes

  • naxsat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I don´t think anyone was expecting Reddit to shutdown forever, but hopefully with this changes some people move over to Lemmy to create new communities or migrate existing ones

  • SpitfireAEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    As much as I hate to admit it, he’s likely right.

    Many people who use Reddit regularly will go back and business will resume as normal, and they don’t care all that much about what’s going on with the API and third party apps.