I read The Verge’s latest interview with Steve Huffman here and it seems as though the Reddit blackout is having little to no effect. It also seems as though the communities at large don’t really care and will probably just use the official app or don’t really know there are 3rd party ones. So it seems this will pass and be mostly forgotten about.
What are your thoughts?
I don’t really care. I’m here now, deleted my 12 year old account in the process. People thinking Reddit will die are delusional. The Reddit as us old people know it has died years ago, it just became unbearable now.
I have to admit that I’m enthusiastic about the whole fediverse thing mostly because reddit became the new facebook. Reddit used to be a bit of a nerdy place but gradually it became just another shitty social network. The people who migrate away from reddit right now are the nerds who care about things like a decentralized internet, which is exactly the kind of geeky thing that old reddit’s userbase cared about.
Reddit right now is like the Simpsons. It won’t die but it stopped being good a long time ago.
Agreed, couldn’t care less about Reddit, the protest was a damp squib in most respects, Spez knew it would be business as usual Wednesday so just waited until it all blew over. Some are carrying on, they say mods may be forced out, if people had any sense they’d walk away from the place. We were slowly but surely being turned into product.
Agreed. I’ve been feeling that way about reddit for some time now. This whole thing just helped me pick my next distraction a bit sooner.
Yeah , like every time Facebook was in a massive scandal - they’ll still have a billion users and unlimited money to make problems go away - but is it a nice place to be? 🥶🥶