The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.::Reddit corporate claims victory over its disgruntled mods as r/aww, r/pics, and r/videos abandon the “John Oliver rule.”
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I am not really shocked because the only way to really beat Reddit is by leaving the platform completely as in what many did when Melon Husk took over Twitter. Mass exodus. Express displeasure by voting with your feet and GTFO.
I guess I beat reddit then.
You and I both beat Reddit! 😂
So did I. The only people who claim Reddit “won” are falling for the survivorship bias. Most of us who actually cared are long gone.
No they did not win. People just expect people to move out from an historic platform overnight. This just doesn’t happen like that. Like Twitter, they’ll be small events that will make users want to find alternatives and migrate here.
That crisis made Lemmy way more populated, just for that we won in a way
Hey I’m here so guess what
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Lemmy won imo
I’m here and I have an ad-free, troll-free, wholesome community to engage with on mostly the same topics I followed on Reddit. I declare myself the winner
I read that as toll free and was wondering if I was missing something.
Yah, too early in the morning for me!
I didn’t realize I had misread that till I read your comment. It’s late here.
Me reading this from lemmy
Spez gambled that most mods would give up because they where power whores. He won because he was right.
Just a matter of time till majority of its users realise how easy it is to migrate to lemmy and how greedy and evil reddit has become.
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Sadly, Reddit has won. Their traffic is higher now than before the API protests. It seems like the saying "All publicity is good publicity was true in this case. While one can appreciate a minimal downtrend in Twitter interest (as expected), Reddit interest is growing and even more after the protests. Google trends:
That is search terms not traffic. If I Google “Reddit controversy” it will add to the Reddit stat. Your literally just asking Google to tell you how many people included the word “Reddit” in their search query.
You’re right, I should have said search interest. Though, I would argue it is correlated.
Partly because the majority of the people didn’t even know there were 3rd party apps lol. Many people don’t even care about the protests. Reddit is too big for it to go down overnight.
The only thing we could do now is build better communities here.
I was one of those people, didn;t even know about the 3rd party stuff until they were nearly gone. The site took a noticeable decline in quality and that’s why I’m here.
I thought Mastodon, Lemmy, and Kbin were all the same thing until about a week before I lost access to RIF. I’m glad I looked into all the Reddit alternatives and found Lemmy. Reddit has been shitty for years anyway.
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I don’t think the war has been won. This might have been the biggest battle, but it’s going to be the years that tell the story, not the months or the days.
I never cared about the Reddit API war. For me, leaving Reddit was about how moderators have absolute yet arbitrary power to permanently ban users who do not agree with them. And I’m not talking about breaking their rules (racism, misogyny, transphobia) but simply having a disagreement of opinion that provides the mods an opportunity to ban you for life.
For the Reddit API thing, the funny thing was finding out I could have been using a better app the past seven years but didn’t know.
You sub to a subreddit and gen banned on others that had nothing to do with it. Try talking anou how bad the vaccines are… Get banned. It does not matter if you are right or not, cant even have the conversation
Oh, please don’t worry about that, Lemmy’s API will make it easier than Reddit’s to automatically ban plague rats
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I’m saying I want to ban plague rats
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If you’re banned for an opinion, that’s not right. If you’re banned because you’re spreading easily disprovable vaccine misinformation, that’s on you.
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“Missinformation” lol everything on the vaccine has been missinformation until is not… “Virus came from a lab in china” “once you are vaccinated you wont get covid (depends on when you say it if its " missinformation” or not)" etc…
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Can’t community moderators ban users too?
I think the idea here is that if mods are bad on, say, [email protected], everyone can just leave and make [email protected] or wherever. There should be more competition here, at least in theory. Time will tell how well it actually works.
They still have that power on Lemmy don’t they?
They do, but the difference is I can’t go to another reddit instance when they pull shit. It’s not flawless, but it certainly changes the power dynamics.
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And they don’t have ownership over a single community name as well. You can start a community with the same name on a different server
Well yeah because all the people who cared moved to Lemmy or kbin
