I think reddit will linger for a very long time even as the quality goes down the toilet. There are millions of casuals on there just doomscrolling that don't seem to mind the ads and the horrible official app/new website. It's still interesting to follow the story as it unfolds, but I'm also slowly losing that interest as I continue to explore lemmy. We'll all mostly forget about it at some point, and that will be a good day for us, regardless of what happens to reddit and it's disengaged remnants of a user base.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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Of course it will, Digg is still around and so is Myspace. These sites rarely "die" in the sense of shutting down but just become a husk of its former self.
Those of us who've been on the internet since the mid-90s remember how Digg fucked up. Apparently none of those people who remember what happened last time are around at the top of Reddit anymore.
History repeats, they say.
Meanwhile, Threadiverse is on the verge of reaching 100k active monthly accounts.
Of course, the numbers are incomparable. But this whole thing made Threadiverse into a viable space for a lot of people. Reddit app developers are starting to develop apps for Lemmy/Kbin. Dozens of new instances got set up. The whole space is bigger, more resilient, and leaps and bounds more vibrant than it was in May and before (I've been here for years).
A lot of people will come back to Reddit. But a lot of people will also remain here. And this space will be there the next time Reddit craps the bed, better prepared to take the influx.
Speaking of app developers, has anyone heard anything about a Beehaw app? I haven't seen it brought up yet
My understanding is that Beehaw is just an instance that can be logged into? I'm logged into my Beehaw account on Jeroba for Lemmy right now which was the only account I was able to figure how to login to, as I have a kbin as well.
If you're talking specifically about something for Beehaw, I'm not sure, but it seems what I'm using is in line with Beehaw's rules - downvoting disabled is applied.
There's a small server maintainence popup but it hasn't noticeabley affected anything, and it seems it's being worked on.
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hopefully there will be even bigger drop in usage on july 1st
I’ll be interested to see how much the usage drops after third-party apps go offline in the next few days.
The small drop in users isn't super surprising. I'm more interested in the drop of mods and tools. If more garbage slips through on the regular than I can imagine users start to drop off from their favorite subs turning to shit. Either way I'm done with reddit
Reddit Is Already on the Rebound
Interesting article from Wired, with some decent sources.
Did Reddit pay for that article? No mention whatsoever of Spez forcing subs open and ejecting mods. Just back to "business as usual".
Both Wired and Reddit are owned by Condé Nast. (Technically sister corps in Advance Publications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications)
I'm a little surprised the drop in activity was that low. What the fuck were people browsing when most of Reddit was blacked out?
yeah looks like only 3.6 mil people stopped using the site (out of 52 mil) but I have no clue what was even left during the blackout. Did people just not notice?
There are a lot of people who are/were totally ok with Reddit after the blackout starting, only commenting that people are fucking stupid, and they need to shut up about it already. I know a couple people like this.
Honestly, Meta, TikTok, twitter, etc have already shown us people honestly don’t give a shit, as long as they get their serotonin/dopamine fix.
Personally, I haven’t intentionally been back since the 11th, and the only times I’ve accidentally gone there, it was for the 3 seconds it took me to close it down. And I don’t intend to go back.
Stopped using it is one thing, using it less another. 3.6m out of 52 is what? 8% of the entire user base suddenly stopped, including a lot of important mods, which are hard to replace in that quality? And the rest of the user base I can imagine have less activity in Reddit, meaning less content creation, replies and therefore less advertisement seen. And some people may just trolling more than before, trying to destroy Reddit, some use Bots.
The overall quality is less than before, not better I assume. And a little bit less user than before. The site has a bad image now, so I can imagine some are waiting until alternatives are build and grow on Lemmy or Kbin in example and will switch later. So hard numbers of how many people stopped using the site is not telling the entire story. One has to open the book and read the lines, not just judge the cover story.
I think a lot of people scoffing at the numbers don't realize that 8% is not insignificant for a site as robust and long lived as Reddit. That's a pretty huge change in a short period of time. It will be interesting to see what happens when the third party apps shut down.