I’ve been seeing a lot of pro-reddit, anti-mod comments, despite tens of thousands of up votes on Reddit blackout posts. Pro-reddit comments also have a ton of gold for some reason.
Is reddit trying to change the narrative towards hating on mods for “ruining everything” before they try and remove them?
I don’t really care. I don’t visit Reddit anymore and don’t intend to return.
I deleted my 3 Reddit accounts last night, one that had over 110k karma. I’m starting to get cosy with Lemmy now, hopefully some refinements and it will be great.
My issue has been that I have too many niche hobbies that either don’t have communities on Lemmy/Kbin, or have very small, inactive communities.
After June 30th Lemmy is still my new home. I won’t browse reddit without Relay Pro.
I used Apollo, and after the way they treated the creator, there’s no way I would use Reddit again.
Apollo was an outstanding app. Easily my most used when I had an iPhone. The fact that it’s been killed by Reddit is absolutely shameful imo.
I have Boost (paid), Relay (paid), BaconReader (paid) and at one point, Apollo (paid).
I loathe the official app and ads, I won’t be back either. I have a special amount of contempt for the Reddit app even prior to this event.
Just a heads up, looks like Relay pro will still be a thing moving to a sub mode (dev states $2-$3/month)
That’s very tempting, but there’s no telling if reddit will raise API pricing going forward, or add more restrictions to 3rd party apps. Their community has gone to shit anyway. Better to just pull the plug entirely and start anew.
I really liked Reddit Sync and I’ve never used the official app before. The way I see it, if I’m going to be forced to make a change anyway, I might as well leave Reddit altogether for something new.
I’ll keep checking the front page of all once or twice a day until Reddit is fun dies, but once that happens, I’m done with Reddit
I enjoy this comment so much. :D
I have also deleted my apps, and unbookmarked the page. I sometimes still mistakenly auto pilot to the website but quickly get off.
Yeah, delete your account too.
It’s like Cortes burning the ships.
I’m mainly keeping an alt account for /r/SQL because for it’s sort of a defacto professional repository (also the only place you can ask for and get a sciprt for a bespoke data cleaning on a large relational DB in about 60 minutes).
I do get deleting accounts (and I’m deleting my “main” just commenting account) but some of the accounts have literally irreplaceable info, not just in the tech space, but my god some of the guides for gaming in older games only exist on reddit (like getting a full 50 monuments in the original Guild Wars, or setting up a good build for Bioshock 2). So I’m keeping my “info” accounts for as long as I can, I know it adds value to reddit being assholes, but I feel it adds more value to a stressed out Admin over their head in a bad situation, or some frustrated retro gamer that doesn’t want to know the glitch mode that everyone uses right now.
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I suspect there’s also sampling bias. The types who are still using reddit are not the same who were heavily in support of the blackouts.
I wonder how much will change with so many long time active users leaving Reddit. I’ve been very active for 15 years on Reddit, deleted thousands of posts and even more comments and won’t be returning. I know there are a lot of people like me who are finally done with the site. Is it just going to go more downhill than it already has?
I think it’ll be a slow decay. I’m in the same category of long time user that deleted their history and isn’t going back. Reddit has lost a lot of accounts like ours.
In the short run Reddit has already lost a lot of its ‘cultural history and identity’ (sounds dumb I know but I think the terms apply). There were a ton of ‘inside jokes’ and reddit history references that made it feel like a broad community and there’s probably not going to be a critical mass of users that perpetuate that feeling much longer.
In the longer term the loss of personal mod and active user investment in their subs will start to show. Subs will be poorly curated and become dominated by whoever is loudest and angriest. Reddit was fun because it had a huge amount of engagement on any topic, but that was tempered by the ability to find subs with active moderation on topics you cared about. Now they’re going to have to deal with all that desire for engagement but with nothing to keep it on the rails, which will mean the engagement will only remain desirable for those that don’t want rails. But once they get their way they’ll get bored too because they’ll only have their own anger to engage with.
The loss of users is already beginning to show, depending on the community. I had some LifeProTips and other useful threads saved and was trying to archive them for myself yesterday, and several had either the original post or the highest-upvoted parent comment outright deleted.
I’m seeing this a lot in the stickies for reopened subs discussing whether they want to continue the blackout. Last week they all wanted to protest, this week they don’t want it anymore and prefer the sub to stay up. It’s likely a different subset of people commenting.
Those that stay probably weren’t aware of what they were missing out on.
Hoping that those that leave find themselves a cozy place here on Lemmy.
Or kbin! Or Fedia! Or any of the platforms. That’s the beauty, they’re all correct choices and (to an extent) all open to any user.
The people left on reddit are inherently anti-collective-bargaining. This protest inconveniences them, with no idea or care why it’s happening in the first place. So they stamp their feet and scream about it.
Remember that in an interview, they mentioned that they used fake accounts early on to control the discourse on Reddit.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-fake-accounts–2
Not saying I have any proof they are doing that now, but it does show what they are willing to do to control the platform.
There has always been a disconnect between who upvotes and who comments. It is not unusual to see a highly upvoted post filled with negative commenters. The “vocal minority” if you will.
I think it is also likely that the blackout supports are still in blackout. I sure am.when has the narrative ever changed away from that attitude? look at how mutahar has acted - knowing that we’re doing the right thing but still throwing as much contempt into everything as he possibly can. the only times that people side with mods is when we’re taking enormous damage so that general users don’t cop it instead, or if there’s a power-mad despot who should never have control of anything larger than a toy train
I have to say that the content on Reddit seems low effort and uninteresting as of late.
Let them feast on it if they want. I feel like there is more potential over here
There are always people who think of themselves as relating to the service that they use, and not the people that make the service run.
It’s the same mentality as yelling at the minimum wage cashier because the price of milk went up.
There did seem to be a distinct air of smugness/“I told you so” in quite a few of the blackout or future-related comment sections I was in. Whether they’re shills or just being cynical/butthurt for losing out on two days worth of Internet points and argument time, I have no idea.
There’s a lot of people who just resent the idea of mods in general because they feel affronted that they can’t just spray their shitposts wherever they feel like and/or object to the idea of the Internet having any kind of quality bar. They’re mainly just reacting to it with a “if the mods are for it, I’m against it” mentality.
But yeah, also, the people who didn’t leave for the blackout are more likely than not to side with Reddit, or actually like the Reddit app and not care about the fuss.
Also also, there’s a vast majority of people who consider this whole brouhaha to be nerd shit and don’t care.
Accounts with a ton of gold complaining about mod actions that impact the service they’re paying for isn’t all that surprising. I think you may just be seeing selection bias in action.
