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Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.
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Was there an up to date register of best alternatives per each subreddit?
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What’s going on there? Really the api change did this?
Damn! If I remember right, that’s always been one of their most active subs.
They sold out their core product for a short term gain, and I hope it’s biting them in the ass now.
Their CEO saw what Musk was doing with X and thought “Brilliant! I have to try that!”
I’m not joking. Spez specifically credits Musk with giving him the idea.
And people think billionaires are smart
They’re not even good at business
That and spez was a total ass about the whole thing, lying to app devs & just being a fucking jerk.
He did an AMA & fucked that up with either answering no questions or copying & pasting canned responses to obvious plants.
Then the admins started forcefully removing & replacing mods who were protesting by making their subs private and not reverting them. So yeah, you can imagine how well that went over when the new mods had no prior mod experience and/or knew nothing about the topic of the sub they were now modding.
It was a shitshow all around.
Their official app is utter garbage, if it weren’t I may have stayed. People like me have decided that if the Reddit experience has to be so bad, it’s better not to be on reddit at all.
Imagine your favourite burger joint from now on only allowed you to enter from the back alley where it smells like piss and walls are mouldy - then once you get in all burgers have an added layer of spam and Nutella that you can’t opt out of.
Mobile apps are key.
It is probably that those who used third party apps were those more likely to try to get karma and engage with the site. The switch wasn’t worth it for the heavy users making posts, so posts fell.
Really the api change did this?
Kind of. It wasn’t just the change itself, but also how it was done.
Reddit showed complete lack of care about its own userbase (specially blind people and moderators) and that it’s an extremely scummy company, even for company standards. It could’ve pulled the unreasonable API prices to kill off 3PA but it would need smarter people in charge of the decision than the ones who did it.
I’m no business expert, but the thing is I was a heavy user. Had they made the API changes reasonable and worked with the devs, I would have been happy to pay for the service i used so much (I already paid for the app, what’s a few more bucks a month?)
But them to charge such exorbitant fees, be dicks to users and creators, then treat those who were upset like the bad guy? That’s a spectacularly bad approach to business.
Had they made it part of the original Reddit Gold subscription, or worked that into a new subscription for roughly the same price (~$60 a year) I would have been all over that, no questions asked.
You would have kept most of the power users/mods/whatever and had them be a revenue stream in the process.
Instead they lost both the potential for earnings and the contributions they brought to the site. How stupid did they have to be?
I’m not surprised. The user interface for mobile has just gotten awful, and losing third party apps was the last nail in the coffin for me. Within a day I couldn’t stand the official app and went to other sites.
Shocker, the troll who said Elon Musk was a genius and has sex with an orange cat with silicone implants on the side was wrong??
Run that second part by me again?? Spez did what?
Garfield can do so much better
let’s hope that reddit will die soon!
I used to use reddit everyday. Now it’s like once a week, same as lemmy too. Now I just surf FB MP in my spare time and watch YouTube…
Not only that… But the hell would want to buy Reddit awards anymore?
The completely unblockable hegetsus ads were really what made me switch to Apollo from the official Reddit app. Then killing third party apps made me leave for good. Bravo, Reddit
I was on reddit for 11 or 12 years. Commented several times a day. Voted 100 times or more per day. Left mid June and haven’t been back once. Now I do that shit here instead.
It’s only hard for me to keep up with sports discussion without reddit but whatever.
tha’ts what radio is for!
Sports radio is usually terrible though lol. Sports stuff is a legitimate hole here (compared to reddit), but I also have to imagine it’s much more resource intensive to host/moderate. Game threads routinely get thousands or tens of thousands of comments – it’s a bunch of people in there for three hours straight – and people yell at each other over sports all the time.
so how is random redditors talking sports better than sports radio?
If you want to know about or hear discussion around the game or something but are around other people without headphones, quietly reading what Redditors have to say is considered more polite than putting on the sports radio for everyone else to hear.
It’s usually not, you’re right. Reddit sports forums – especially team specific ones – are dominated by sports radio type garbage takes.
But you also have at least some people on reddit who are trying to go deeper, or who have more perspective, than your drunk uncle yelling at the TV. So it’s a lot of shit but a decent amount of good, where sports radio is almost all shit.
This is literally the only thing I miss about Reddit, hopefully the sports communities will shore up some more
When does the narwhal bacon?
Anybody??
I’d say it goes deeper than that. the lack of a proper mobile app has definitely decreased my presence on reddit. but there’s more.
i do visit some ‘niche’ subreddits about once a day from my desktop (hurrah for old.reddit), and i once went to popular+hot – it was utter rubbish. being here and on mastodon has opened my eyes on how severely the general content on reddit has deteriorated.
I’m on Lemmy and I’ll be honest, I’m still looking for better content here.
There are old memes, comics, Linux memes, and that’s about it. If I filter for my subscribed stuff, I get nothing new for 12 hours.
But I’m still not going back to Reddit after fucking over third party apps.
It will come, just growing pains. But yeah I’m on the equivalent of r/all a lot here just to find new stuff.
I browse all all the time here, but even then there’s not a lot of content. Maybe it’s better like this, but I still scroll a lot in the hope to find new content to stimulate my brain
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roofreddit, theroofreddit, theroofreddit is on fireWe don’t need no water let the motherfucker burn
All the people on r/piracy there better jump ship before Reddit sells all their info to Big Brother
Too late. Thankfully the piracy Lemmy instance is fairly strong.
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