Most redditors who aren’t willing to bend over and take whatever Spez wants to shove into their asses have already switched to Lemmy.
We’ll get a few stragglers, but I wouldn’t expect much of a reaction at this point.
Today? Maybe a few. A week, a month, a year from now? Reddit is going to get worse. People will leave.
Looking at Twitter it’s clear some folks will never leave no matter how bad it gets, but plenty of folks will leave.
Reddit users have always been revolting
Advisor: “Sire, the peasants are revolting!”
Blackadder: “Yes they are disgusting arent they”
They already kicked out or scared off the most vocal last year.
Why would they revolt? I’d assume most of the people that cared enough to take the revolt over killing third party apps and all that have left or at least minimized their Reddit use. So that leaves bots, the apathetic, and niche community users who might complain but aren’t going anywhere.
The only people left there actually engaging and not just checking out funny vids on their phone are drones, corpo bootlickers and scammers anyway lol
Sadly tons of subs are very active with real people. It’s a lot of momentum to shift.
Inertia
I have a 3p app that still seems to be working. I don’t log in, so I only read occasionally, but I have to say that the number of upvotes seem much higher than when I was using the site. I was a very active user who quit during the exodus (when Apollo went dark), but I don’t remember the number of upvotes being regularly in the thousands to tens of thousands.
It makes me wonder whether they’re artificially boosting traffic ahead of the IPO, to be honest. I mean, if they are, it probably would have leaked by now - but it still feels like it doesn’t line up with the third party traffic reports.
In any case, I think that going public is just going to increase the pressure for monetization, and Spez has already said how much he admires what Elon did with Twitter, so I think we know where it’s heading. It’s really just waiting for a replacement. Whether lemmy can be it or not is yet to be determined, but the enshittification has started and the migration will come as soon as someone drops a couple of billion building a service and app that’s a real substitute for the casual users.
Oh I’m not saying they aren’t, I’m just saying they’re corpo bootlickers who probably don’t have ublock installed because they think piracy is wrong or some shit and I’d never want to be around them anyway
Don’t forget about bots, when I occasionally find my way there because of some development problems, it’s just super low quality content on new posts
So many bots
Do another 2 day blackout. That’ll show 'em.
Ooh. Imagine the content of the investor calls if there is another blackout.
There would no longer be any hesitation to ban or censor everybody involved.
Who cares?
the unruly userbase that largely rolled over and continued used reddit after its API changes with all but a meagre protest? Yeah im sure they’ll be fine.
no
Why are we still talking about reddit?
Let’s ask the same question in another way.
Can we make its userbase revolt? If yes, how?
It’s always revolting.
Can we make it revolt harder, then?
More specifically: are there ways to encourage the current Reddit userbase to act so notoriously destructively towards the platform, that no sane investor would burn their money buying Reddit stock?
Reddit users are all bots and conservatives these days. They are programmed to obey.
It’s half dead best timing for IPO launch.
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No they botch
