That Reddit will not shut down. It will take the hit and go on and probably make at least some money. Only, it will be a much different place, more like Facebook or Instagram, in that it will be full of ads and less specific information.
It will cease to be a different, often niche space and become just another, more generalized social for a more generalized public.
In short: we, aka the people who migrated, simply are not their intended target anymore.
On the subject, I found @gonzo0815 's post very interesting and more detailed than my summary😅 (link https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/25185/A-few-thoughts-about-the-blackout-and-the-future-development)
Let’s not poison ourself, thinking on “how to make them pay”. Let’s move on, and enjoy the new internet spaces we are building!
Who cares? I actually think that even though this is ultimately a bad decision on Reddit’s part, they are well within their right to make it.
I guess I’m not the intended audience of reddit anymore, but all I am is someone that wants to have a conversation with other people on the internet without getting interrupted by ads, while using a client that I like. I even was willing to pay money for this, and I did pay for the pro relay app, but since reddit is breaking compatibility with it, it is time to move on to the fediverse. I want to have more ownership of my content anyway, and I am an IT engineer anyway, so it is time to make that happen. Self host my own instance and participate on other instances.
it will be full of ads and less specific information. It will cease to be a different, often niche space and become just another, more generalized social for a more generalized public
If you asked me to describe a dead reddit, that’s how I would do it. I honestly don’t know if Kbin will be better, but it definitely can’t be worse, so I’m willing to give it a try.
I don’t think the point of the protest was ever to shut down reddit
It would’ve been a welcome outcome from my side.
Of course it won’t shut down.
Reddit can remove the mods of any sub at any time and simply open the subs back up. They are allowing them to remain shut now as a PR move because it’s a worse look if they take them back by force. But make no mistake - that’s what will happen in the long run.
The thing that is really going to hurt Reddit in the long run is that all of the Reddit links on Google are “breaking” - if someone searches something and a Reddit post comes up as a result, there is about a 7/10 chance that the sub is private and the post isn’t visible. This will hurt Reddit badly in the long run because Google will remove these results if they stay that way for, say 2 - 3 weeks. Then Reddit loses the ad revenue and new user capture they were getting from organic Google traffic. They can’t simply get that back by reopening the subs, either - once those pages are downranked on Google, it will be difficult for them to rebuild the traction to get a high listing. Some have been there for 10+ years.
The Reddit we all used to know is dead and gone. It used to be an incredibly flexible platform for developers, mods, and users but apparently it’s not “profitable” enough to keep that. Reminds me of how Apple designs their platforms; keep users in a predefined box and make it very difficult to customize the user experience meaningfully.
I still prefer for Reddit to exist though. If not for anything else but to keep bots, spam, and malicious users away from smaller sites and overloading them. I am not too upset that the remaining Reddit mods will have to deal with that.
Absolutely love this attitude. Reddit won’t change, and that’s ok. Let’s be the change we want to see ❤️
Yup. I think that’s the approach. If your done with Reddit and deleted your account then why spare a thought for it. I don’t care if it goes down or not, it’s not longer my platform. This is where I am at for now.
However all of us got to put in the work of this thing is going to work out. Participate where you can and promote the existence of this option to others.
The apps still need work and somthing has got to be done about the whole “Lenny devs support the cpp” nonsense. I find that one was making it tricky to bring newcomers our way. I’m just going to be patient as possible with all that. I’m sure all the devs and mods are working their butts off for us and will deal with that when they can.
If lemmy is an issue for some, send them to kbin instead. It doesn’t matter where in the fediverse they come in at, as long as they are in the fediverse.
