How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though?
Users were outraged, but Reddit mostly won.
How is reddit post protest, did it really win over protesters? Did the ones who left make a dent? Or like all things before, did it ultimately do nothing?
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They may have quashed the protest, but at what ultimate cost? The reputation damage has happened and people have definitely left. Lemmy saw some significant growth. I'm new to Lemmy but so far it definitely feels like what I enjoyed about reddit without all of the corporate bullshit. It's nice not seeing shit-take ads either.
The reputation damage has been pretty bad for Reddit in my view. They've handled things really badly and in the process lost a lot of good will and positive sentiment to their brand. They had good will by the bucket load, that Meta and Microsoft would kill for, and have spent a lot of it in return for very little.
All they had to do was a quick 'sorry, we have listened', act like they're addressing some of the concerns and everyone walks away looking good.
Oh it the way it was handled was positively a dumpster fire!
Don't think so ultimately. The truth is most of the users don't care.
I used to use Boost all the time, and browsed the site when I was on my computer. Now that I can't access it from my phone (the first party app isn't happening lmao) I don't feel much like using it on desktop either. Tumblr, of all things, has absorbed much of my traffic, and I've paid to remove ads on it because I've used it so much over the last ten years that I know it'll be worth it, plus I'm hoping that if enough people pay for it they won't go down the monetization rabbit hole as much as other sites have recently.
Lemmy is okay, but the hot/active post sorting is far worse than Reddit was (I'm still seeing days- old posts even when set to All) and the user base just isn't large enough yet to have a consistent feed of stuff I find interesting. Both of those can easily change over the coming days/weeks of course.
All social media platforms' viability come down to userbase and how fun they are to hang out on, and reddit has absolutely damaged both. It's unclear to me what impact that will have for it long-term, but its time as the problematic but scrappy underdog in the space is over.
Hot and active are kinda busted, sort by new comments.
I wasn’t even using Apollo tbh, if they were treating people right we would still be there
