It can go one of a few ways.

  1. Apart from the few subs that remain offline, it’ll basically be back to normal. Those that do remain offline indefinitely just get forcibly reopened or recreated by admins, especially huge subreddits like /r/videos. Smaller ones just get redicted to /r/topicnew or some other creative name.

  2. A lot of subreddits and more importantly moderators and users leave the site permanently. In order for this to happen however, there’d have to be a consensus alternative, which there isn’t ATM. Otherwise, these communities are pretty much lost forever unless the mods put a message to go to X alternative service in the “subreddit is private” banner. Tbh, I don’t think people are gonna stomach losing years of their lives in an instant so they’ll just re create subreddits unless the mods provide an alternative.

No matter what though, they’re not backing down on the effective removal of the API (still leaving the sneaky clause “you can pay us if you want but it’ll be a king’s ransom” for AI, even though they can just trawl the web manually lol). They’ll probably announce some crappy customization features to hoodwink those who don’t know what an API is and lie to them and say it’s “API v2” or whatever.

I just honestly don’t know how it’s going to shake out and I’m scared im going to lose these communities. I don’t give a single solitary fuck about Reddit the company anymore, and I never did really. I just hope all of the subreddits find a new home and don’t just shrug their shoulders and say “welp, guess that’s it guys”.

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    1 year ago

    I’m a fellow Sim Racer… I used to frequent the sub daily prior to nuking my account a week or so ago. Would you mind sharing the new community you found? I’m yet to find a replacement on Lemmy :)

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        1 year ago

        Ha yea for sure ! Reddit really did become a perpetual loop of the same content. Every now and then a post that would hit a funny bone but the mojoroty of the time it was repetitive.

        I’m into iRacing myself (although have a break at the moment due to the weather being epic! I get more laps in during the winter for sure…).

        I have legit been considering switching myself from VR to a monitor setup again so interesting you mention this !! Honestly, since I started with this a few years back it’s been like a money hole…

        Thanks for the reply anyhow and no doubt catch you on the track sometime ;)