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”.

  • Alkalyon
    851·
    1 year ago

    Squabbles

    Isn’t this developed by one person, isn’t open source and forbids NSFW in general? That is never going to go well.

    Tildes

    No mobile app and no ActivityPub so it’s a very specialised. Additionally I don’t like the UI at all and I’ve read this in multiple threads here as well.

    Lemmy + Kbin

    Both are show the same content as they are federated so it’s up to who prefers what really. I prefer Lemmy, but anything is fine.

    • CodingAndCoffee@lemmy.world
      49·
      1 year ago

      re Squabbles: yes, hard agree.

      re Tildes: yes, also hard agree. The invitation-only method of growing the community also is draconian and it’s going to hit all the scaling problems a traditional site does.

      These and others are why you’re finding me with you here in the fediverse. I am with you mi beratna.

      • Alkalyon
        47·
        1 year ago

        These and others are why you’re finding me with you here in the fediverse.

        I’ve been here for a week and it already feels like home!

        • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
          40·
          1 year ago

          I think people underestimate how much people are unlikely to go back to an abusive relationship when they’ve found one that isn’t. Reddit was a bad habit. I am actually going to be contributing to communities here once I figure it all out. The worst that could happen here so far is not getting any comments or votes which is fine by me. On reddit I could post a picture of my cat and someone could comment “insert random derogatory term” for no reason lol! So far so good here.

          • asclepias@lemmy.world
            131·
            1 year ago

            It really depends on how you interacted with Reddit. A lot of my engagement was with smaller subreddits that sometimes had user bases that weren’t necessarily the most tech savvy. I’m not sure how long it took some of the older people on r/quilting to find it, but I’m sure it will take them longer to find the Lemmy version.

        • CaptainPicard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Yeah. It really reminds me of reddit a decade ago. I hadn’t really realized how much it’d changed before now. Reddit slowly went from a feeling of community to me just sitting isolated and scrolling numbing content. This feels so much more alive.

      • agreyworld@lemmy.world
        23·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, seriously looked at Reddit alternatives when I saw a post from a big sub about going dark and how they were considering moving to tildes - but then found it was invite only. Seems silly for a million+ sub to migrate somewhere invite only

    • DrQuint
      8·
      1 year ago

      and forbids NSFW in general?

      Funny enough, I’ve seen people assume Lemmy also forbids NSFW. I think they just never found lemmynsfw.com, which is basically the access point to the porniverse (you’re welcome btw if you found it here).

      There was also the thing with Beehaw banning that one other instance with Loli, which might have been seen by some who hadn’t even thought of NSFW content at all as “oh, porn not okay then”.

      • Alkalyon
        1·
        1 year ago

        The main problem with NSFW content in Lemmy is that it’s almost exclusively in some media format which effectively tends to put a huge strain on the system, be it technical difficulties or storage space in general.

        If the lemmy platform wants to survive, NSFW content needs to be allowed but the technical difficulties will probably take a while to be fully resolved.

      • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s not the only instance that allows nsfw even. The one I’m on seems to allow it if marked as such, though it’s not really for that in particular, and there’s a second furry instance that I’ve seen pop up recently with a pretty big user overlap with the one I joined that’s explicitly for nsfw.

      • aka_oscar@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        Must be because users kept linking lemmy.ml as it was the big one at the time. I remember one reddit user who read the sidebar that said no porn and they instantly rejected the idea of switching

    • Bappity@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      I reckon a lot of the platforms popping up with closed ecosystems will stagnate after a while. ActivityPub is brilliant and I hope more platforms adopt it!

    • Saitama@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been fairly active both on Squabbles and here. I think Squabbles looks pretty nice and it’s easy to use. I can see myself using it at work to keep up with news, light banter, etc. precisely because of the lack of NSFW, or sharing content from there with my parents or teenage kids without worrying that they may land somewhere that’s going to make them think I’m a degenerate.