Although there's a lot of protesting going on over at Reddit right now, I really don't think it can be compared to twitter. 6 months from now, I doubt things will be all that different at Reddit. A small number of users (relatively speaking when compared to their total number of users) will leave, and that's probably it.
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What's going on with Twitch ?
They were going to ban multi-streaming. Basically most streamers stream to YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and I forgot the last site but Twitch was going to ban this so they could only stream to Twitch no matter if they were official twitch partners or not.
Ultimately all these big platforms are gonna cannibalize their userbase at some point. That's the reason I started since 2 years archiving all the YouTube channels/playlists I care about. I already have many videos that were taken down by YT afterwards.
I assume you're using some form of youtube-dl.
Do you have a quick script for downloading the video and scraping the data like the uploader, date, and title of the video?
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they are realizing that if they want to maximize profits they don't actually need to maximize users.
And that people are generally pretty stubborn about their social media these days. While the migration to Lemmy has been significant, it's still a tiny proportion of reddit's total users. Most people just want to see their feed and don't care overly much about the specifics of how it's run (even if they should) - and even those who do will often put up with a lot of BS to stay in their comfort zone.
Look at Twitter - you've still got tons of people who despise Elon and his changes to Twitter who are using the platform every day. It's been half a year now with things only getting worse and these people are still clinging to the platform because it's where they're comfortable. If anything, Elon showed that you can give your community some serious abuse while still maintaining high user counts
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What's happening with Twitch? I haven't heard anything.
The post title implies it were prevalent. Which it is not. Three platforms is not a lot overall.
The reasons between Twitter and Reddit are very different.
Twitter was fine. It's on a single Person - Elon Musk - who bought Twitter. All changes after it were through them.
Reddit became a big platform. Now it's run not by a small team but by a big company with management and CEO. Supposedly targeting going public, and probably focusing no longer on usefulness and the service but on profitability and growth. An inherently, broadly, and very different mindset and goals.
I suspect that twitter is going to persist for a while too. I was talking to my partner who is no fan of Elon and where he is taking the site, but she said that she doesn't know where she could build the kind of community she has found through Twitter. She gave mastodon the ole college try too, but the onboarding process there is somewhat complex, especially if you are trying to create a community similar to what you have on Twitter. So on Twitter she remains.
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