TheSmartDudeIf I go on the reddit website and scroll through posts without doing anything else, would that affect Reddit's ad revenue, or is it insignificant to Reddit?
Unfortunately you still generate traffic and see the ads
đŁđđđđIf you use an ad blocker, they wonât gain anything by data from you.
If you sign out, and use a VPN then they get just about nothing.
I have deleted my account bur have not been using a VPN.
QuarterSwedeYouâd still count as a user though. That goes into their IPO valuation. Donât go to reddit period.
DrNeurohaxThey will still get site visit counts and other general metrics (page view time, clicks, etc.). When you see in a press release that they, "have X million daily page views," that's including everything from signed in users to anonymizing middle clients, like libreddit.
It's the most minimal help for them possible, but not as good as just staying away. If you used to post regularly and scanning the front page twice per day will help you engage less, that's much better than slipping back into old habits.
A lot of people are incorrectly obsessing over Redditâs revenue
A social media platform IPO valuation is based on a speculative value⊠A âreasonable prediction of potential valueâ, and that is driven primarily by traffic and engagement metrics.
So, unfortunately, even a âread only with blocked adsâ interaction w/ Reddit would still be helping Bost IPO value.
Is there anyway to check up on the protests without helping Reddit?
It depends on how strictly you want to define âhelping Redditâ.
If you have a very strict definition: then you probably shouldnât access Reddit at all in any way. Ive heard references to some sites that are tracking Reddit protests, but havenât seen them myself. If theyâve aggregated protest data you could try and find/use them as a source.
Recognizing that although any access to Reddit is helping them, youâre still a drop in the bucket⊠Simply limiting you time/engagement to a bare minimum still reduces any value you are providing to Reddit. Along with what others are saying: use a VPN, donât sign in, use an ad blocker. You can minimize your value in that way. But it wonât be zero.
Very true. I would argue that for some people, it might be better to ween themselves off Reddit than stop cold turkey.
If they posted every day, stop posting, maybe reduce commenting, and take an extra 10 seconds to search out other sources of info.
If they commented every day, stop commenting, browse Reddit if you feel like it, but try to find an equivalent article here to comment on.
If they lurked, try finding new sources, try new search engines, etc. Did they lurk because they didn't care about interacting, or because they were turned off by toxic responses in the past? Try commenting here.
I'd rather see people leave slowly and stay away, than go back to their old patterns because they think, "I just really NEED to check that one sub, so I guess protesting is not for me."
Also, I don't think there are many here that would fault those that actually need Reddit in some way (e.g.-Ukraine war, self help, support groups, etc.). They have bigger shit to worry about. Revisit the migration topic when you're comfortable, and if you want.
(It's worth mentioning that some of that material is starting to pop up around here. See if they fill your needs when it's okay for you - no point in joining a group with 2 people if you really need a larger support system.)
This has been my way. I knew it would be hard, so every time I find myself wanting to check reddit, I think of what I planned to do there and attempt to find an alternative. Itâs led to a lot more browsing the internet like I used to âback in the day.â And then I only visit reddit if I canât find what I was looking for elsewhere. For most things, I find alternatives easily. Iâve mentioned in comments before, really the only things that I havenât been able to replace are the CPTSD and CPTSD memes subreddits.
atlhartSpez has been correctly advised that investors are going to be concerned with profitability, or at least a viable pathway to profitability.
Thereâs a huge startup bubble starting to burst. Companies reliant on cheap money to supplement a business model that at best is years away from profitability but in some cases decades or will never be profitable.
Uber and Doordash IPOâd when money was cheap and investors were fine with speculating on these disruptive, yet unprofitable, companies.
I work broadly in the VC funded start-up world. Money is running out. All of these companies are trying to commercialize, even if the product isnât fully ready, because they have to show revenue and there has to be path to profitability of that revenue.
In this context, Reddit is more like these startups. Theyâve been funded by investors, including big ones like CondĂ© Nast and Ten Cent, but now the chickens are coming home to roost.
It is for sure going to be a shitshow.
Even if we want to talk about the IPO in the context of profitability, spezâ decisions are still pretty bad.
Forget revenue for a second and look at expenses. Reddit has had a long chain of extremely foolish expensive endeavours. They keep investing dev effort into things like snoovatars, becoming a content host (images videos), trying to roll thier own video player, creating âspacesâ which failed miserably. The resistance to even using their new UX is very high, old.reddit still is in massive use simply because their new UX isnât very good.
Reddit has been obsessed with throwing money away on things that arenât making them any money, and arenât driving site traffic or engagement.
The clearest path to profitability for Reddit isnât about trying to invent notional revenue with an API pricing structure that nobody will actually pay for⊠But instead simply stopping spending money on pointless development.
In fact, I think this whole stunt will have backfired in the sense that if he hadnât made this API pricing mistake, IPO investors may have believed it was an opportunity for improved revenue. I expect that when the dust settles, spez will have instead proven that it ISNâT a significant untapped opportunity to be had.
s_sIt all hinges on how much bot activity the SEC will allow them to pass off as legitimate.
naveUse libreddit, a privacy preserving front end for reddit.
I can understand the interest in watching the drama unfold. Itâs like reality tv.
But you should also ask yourself, deep down, why do you care?
Reddit will never go back. It was going downhill long before the 3PA-crisis. Spez will never back down. Even if Spez gets fired itâll be an Ellen Pao situation all over again. The new CEO will say nice things and then not undo anything Spez did.
At this point the most anyone left on Reddit can do is damage Redditâs valuation. Itâs retribution for destroying the community we all enjoyed.
The mods can do this by impacting what subs can be monetized. Users can do this by decreasing traffic. Even being on the site is traffic.
Itâs not about watching the drama infold. Itâs about watching the tiger die.
Imagine a movie with a powerful villain. Now, imagine that the movie just ends without us seeing the death scene. We just know about it due to the directors confirming it. Imagine Scar running away from the hyenas and the movie just ending with the text âScar was killed by the hyenas later on.â It would be mich better to see Scar getting killed, right?
Thatâs why I want to go on Reddit. Not for hopes for Redditâs redemption, but to watch Reddit die in a blaze of stupidity.
Your comment is spot on, and itâs what led me to ultimately cutting bait entirely, after 12 years of heavy daily use: itâs never coming back to what I remember it as.
Reddit is certainly not going to die anything â the website itself will likely be around 10 years from now â but it wonât be the reddit I remember or loved. So I moved on. I toyed around with Squabbles for awhile but this feels much more like the reddit experience Iâm looking for.
garrettw87If they get paid based on impressions rather than clicks, then even browsing would help them.
BuddhaBeettleYou can replace reddit.com with reddit.adminforge.de, so say instead of reddit.com/r/ModCoord --> go to reddit.adminforge.de/r/ModCoord
You can scroll your little heart away without giving reddit any traffic