IMO, I don't see reddit ever going back to what it was even a year ago. Like many other lurkers I didn't actively post much on reddit, but I used it a ton for searches. Reddit was (and still is to a much lesser extent) a great place to find support or posts that might address an obscure problem you have with tech in general. Trying that today gives me mixed results at best. Subs are private or the replies that were helpful are now deleted. A lot of the search results that you might've found before don't actually show up because the user deleted their account and/or posts. Its far less useful for this purpose than it was even a few months ago and I think we'll see traffic start to reflect that pretty soon.
This is a very short-sighted way of looking at things. The real crunch will come on June 30th when the third party apps stop working. That will cause many people to switch away from Reddit or at least reduce their usage. Also, the current shenaigans will have a long term negative effect on the quality of moderation and thus the quality of content. And people will think twice about putting a lot of effort into producing content. They've been on a downward slope in this regard for a long time but this will only accelerate it.
I'd like to think this is true, but I think it remains to be seen. It may end up being that most users end up deciding to just accept the new normal and reddit pretty much weathers this storm without enough blowback to make a difference.
That is a possibility. I hope it'll turn out differently. But basically I'm done with Reddit. My main hope is that kbin/lemmy become viable alternatives.
Yep, I agree. It'll be a slow decline, but I think we'll see one. It's kind of like a boss being hit by a bunch of DOT's. Seems fine at first, won't keel over right away, but as time passes, the amount of health loss will get more and more catastrophic until it becomes overwhelming.
For the last week from like Wednesday 14th to yesterday I found myself.more and more on Reddit to watch the world.burn. I was still using Rif. Today I have gone back to not bothering and think by end of next week will just give up
I'll be interested in this data once the apps stop working. How many people really use those apps and how will it change the data? There doesn't seem to be any going back if Spez is to be believed, so we'll find out at the end of the month.
Reddit would go dying slowly because nowadays in Reddit there are no one who wants Reddit app to be more useful (such ones are already emigrate to here fediverse).
Well MySpace didn't go out in one month. I was a straggler there until about 2008, when I just abandoned the account. I hated Facebook's interface when it came out, and their later privacy controversies secured that opinion for me.
Many subs reopened but they're still protesting in very creative ways.
User traffic back to normal means people are now posting as much as before, it doesn't mean reddit itself is back to normal, unless you consider spamming Oliver pictures everywhere, literal steam on r/steam. all users "promoted" to mods, NSFW content where it shouldn't be, etc, as being "normal".
I'd be much more interested in knowing how all this is affecting ad revenues and investors opinions, but it seems this kind of info is really hard to find.
Are advertisers backing off for example, realizing that porn could pop up unexpectedly in subs they sell their ads in? Are investors realizing reddit is a very risky business, not only because users can protest any time, but also because they showed they can literally crash the entire platform?
Another dip in traffic will occur when apps stop working July 1st, after that I believe things will go slowly back to normal, "real" normal this time.
Many users are already migrating to alternatives, but I believe it will take quite a long time before the masses realize reddit is a sinking ship.
Honestly, the masses can go ahead and stay there. We have plenty of people here now to have a functioning community without all the Facebook-esque crap those masses dragged in when they joined. I want the small reddit from 10 years ago. This is much closer to that and I'd like it to stay that way.
I agree, my point is that as long as the masses stay there, reddit will appear fine, garbage to us obviously but I think we are a minority of the reddit userbase.
Add comment