See you on the other side

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    1 year ago

    This absolutely feels like republicans setting themselves up for the “red wave” in 2020 that never materialized.

      • Undearius@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        While I want to agree with this, there have been a number of people saying they will stop using Reddit when the changes come into force on July 1.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah people say stuff like that all the time. If they were really going to leave they’d have done it already

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            1 year ago

            I heard that less than 10% of redditors use 3rd party apps. After tomorrow, I doubt that the whole 10% moves here. Maybe 5% if we are lucky (on unlucky if you are an instance owner).

            What really matters is how well the mods can manage the site without their 3rd party tools. Without them, moderation will suffer.

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              1 year ago

              The content on r/all was already dropping in quality during june. I was noticing I was getting into weird niche subreddit way earlier than usual, so hopefully that means all the post makers are starting to jump ship

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              1 year ago

              5% of Reddit is colossal compared to Lemmy’s current numbers. I think even 0.1% would be very noticeable.

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                1 year ago

                I might be in the minority, but I actually like Lemmy where it is now. Sorting by new, there’s usually more new stuff than I can read anyway as-is.

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            1 year ago

            Eh, I created an account on lemmy and installed the mobile app a while ago, did a bit of perusing and commenting, but I was still using reddit as my primary mobile browsing utility until today. My sync app stopped working a few hours ago, so I’m here now.

            I think there’s at least a fair amount of people doing the same thing I’m doing.

      • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        I just got notification from bacon reader that I can’t use it anymore after almost 10 years. It was how I used reddit. I reckon a lot of folks will be getting that same announcement tomorrow, loads of iphone users especially. So I just deleted my account today. Reckon other people will do the same

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        1 year ago

        There will probably be another wave. Simply for the fact that moderation bots are going to stop functioning tomorrow and Spam is just going to go through the roof. It all depends on how fast Reddit can get a handle on that situation.

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          Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about the moderation tools losing API access. The big subreddits don’t have the staff to manually fight all of that, especially with at least some of the senior/dedicated mods losing at least some interest in keeping things afloat. Pro bono work was already rough enough with tools to help. Remove those tools and it’s going to put a lot of people off moderating in a serious manner.

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            1 year ago

            Unpaid staff at that

            At what point do they just decide fuck it and stop trying to fight against all the spam and irrelevant posts because they simply just don’t have the means to anymore

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      Yeah I don’t think there will be a significant drop in reddit users however I think they’ll be a noticeable drop in quality posts and comments. I think with many older gen redditors and experienced mods jumping ship there’s going to be somewhat of a void left in the wake.

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        1 year ago

        Content already has been dropping in quality slowly. A few days ago people were talking about subs up voting Facebook level memes to the frontpage.

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          That was very much how the death of Digg felt. As the real users left, they’re upvoting and downvoting pressure that kept total trash off the front page waned. Soon it was nothing but total garbage posts and advertisers who were gaming the system. The content quality completely crashed and it just pushed more real users away.

          It’ll be interesting to watch how well Reddit weathers this and what comes out the other side. Digg still exists, but it’s a shadow of a shadow of its former self.