lemmybruceleeT-minus 24 hours
This absolutely feels like republicans setting themselves up for the "red wave" in 2020 that never materialized.
And just like then, I will expect the worst and still be pleasantly surprised if the best somehow materializes
Soliyou 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.
JamieContent already has been dropping in quality slowly. A few days ago people were talking about subs up voting Facebook level memes to the frontpage.
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.
KaynWe'll be celebrating a lot of cake days on next year's June and July
I don't think we really know at this point what will happen or how fast reddit will fall. What we do know is third party app users will no longer be able to use the site. And that it will be harder for users with disabilities to effectively use reddit.
Went on the apple sub yesterday and majority of people on there didn’t give a shit about the API changes and were calling the Apollo developer a whiny multi millionaire or something. Feels like the general tone has shifted a lot.
That feels like self-selection bias to me. The most vocal people with opinions leaning the other direction, have already left the platform.
spiderkleRight now there is a race to illegally restore the valuable deleted content. Even google is notably worse without reddit content. Redditors and even mods started nuking their accounts yesterday. Came over with the Star Trek community from reddit too.
Joined earlier today
notExactlyI20Welcome to the Lemmy side. We have freedom from corpos and stupid descisions. Oh, and cookies ;)
Your instance has cookies!? Mine just has stupid science and nature themed communities…
ein sofI am 99% lurker and I joined a few weeks ago. I've been patiently waiting to see what happens with the amount and type of content after an assumed bump in activity when 3rd party apps go dark.
I was an Alien Blue user for years before Reddit purchased it, then I was using Sync (and will be again soon with Sync for Lemmy). Reddit is essentially dead to me without 3rd party apps.
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ardi60the real test is will Lemmy attain sustainable growth after this fiasco? or it is just temporary?
It would be so wonderful if this is the last reddit hug of death
You know you fucked up, when even google gets worse for a few days, because of the subs you made go dark.
BecerroDeOroI was born for this momento
digg vibes
And before Digg was Slashdot ( /. ) for me. It’s just time to pick up the tent and hike to the next valley.
This has been him for the past 3 or 4 weeks