Curious about if there is any discernable difference anyone can see if they may have popped in to Reddit today? I know it’s probably naive to think there would be a big difference first day.
I deleted rif and never even used other apps or desktop site so I won’t be going back, hense the question to those that are accessing the site.
reddit will be just fine without you lmfao. the amount of people who chose to leave the platform is several orders of magnitude smaller than the amount of users who will continue using it.
Time will tell if there’s any difference due to people leaving. I think the reason I find it interesting and others do as well is because we aren’t given any hard data on the actual amount of users left, how many decided to stay and only lurk going forward, how much of the user base were heavy contributors etc. The pushback also was adamant that there would be zero change, and if they’re right then they’re right, not going to hurt my feelings.
While I think it sucks that they chose to go the direction they went, which with how much I hate ads forced my hand to walk away, I’m not upset and deeply affected to my core, I know Reddit will keep chugging along without me.
Whole point of this post was to discuss the changes that happened due to us leaving and if they were noticeable.
I’m pretty upset over it but less about the third party apps but more that it feels like part of a larger theme: our open discussion mediums are under consistent errosion. Twitter has become a shitshow, reddit will flounder however it can to monetize users to attract investors, and most people that care about communication at large lack the money or means to provide a fleshed out service.
Reddit is still accessible for most so this change isn’t like on the order of recent Twitter changes, or some of the Facebook shit from like 2015ish. It just feels like these massive communities are both important but also impossible to maintain and preserve properly in the current digital/market landscape
It just feels like these massive communities are both important but also impossible to maintain and preserve properly in the current digital/market landscapeUnfortunately we don’t know if it’s impossible since we don’t see many companies trying. Most companies are going downhill due to shareholders, then we have Reddit which doesn’t even have them yet but still ruining things to prove to them they’re willing to play ball.
Of all the major companies I’m aware of I think that Costco is the only one I haven’t heard horror stories about in the past year. Amazing that so many companies employ pr, yet I can only think of one with somewhat good public perception.
The users most affected are the ones most likely to post or curate content. One of those users is more important than a hundred lurkers. So I figure if there’s an effect it’ll be from losing disproportionately valuable OC creators.
I’ve posted so much content across accounts in the realm of a couple million karma in total. It’s not the first time I’ve reflected on content with 20k+ views and figured this benefit is going both ways with Reddit.
If I’ve been as addicted to Reddit as I’ve been for years and I’m still willing to find alternatives I figure there must be some other power users like me. Idk if it’ll actually have any effect but I think it may on at least some smaller communities
Same here … never accumulated millions of karma but I had multiple accounts and two of them reached over 200,000 karma. I posted lots and in the past few years learned to post meaningful content that was appreciated. I learned that just being nice and polite to people was more meaningful to others than in just sharing another meme. I noticed that people do like their memes but most of them are endlessly scrolling through everything and contributing little new content … most just repeat and repost … even the responses are reposts and repeats…
I remember reading once on a thread that on average every community was about one in ten contributor and nine out of ten are just lurkers who either just watch content and a few reposters … the majority don’t contribute, it’s just a small dedicated portion that create actual new content.
I like to think that if Reddit loses enough of those core contributors … it would really affect the site overall … but it also might not matter because there is enough content there now for the site and community of reposters to live on for years to come.
We won’t know the effect will be until a few months from now … it might be drastic, or there might not be much of a difference … who knows.
/spez…is that you?
They’re not wrong. There’s a few hundred thousand active users here. There are 10s of millions on Reddit.
Most Reddit users straight up do not care about the API, or 3rd party apps, or the shitty management of the site. They want their memes, and their niche communities, and their quirky Reddit shit posting, and all of that is still right there.
Users will leave gradually as the ads get more intrusive, and as development moves towards more psychologically manipulative features, and as Reddit cuts costs.