I’m in the post-ban blackpilled mode right no so please forgive me. I know reddit is falling apart but it isn’t happening fast enough. Is there any hope that the whole site will be destroyed? I really just want the whole site / app completely destroyed and thew Vichyite mods unable to have their power trips anymore.
No, it won’t be destroyed. It just won’t be what made it what it was.
Honestly, I haven’t noticed a difference on reddit yet, community and content wise. I’ve been dipping my toe into migrating as I’ve seen two of the subreddits I’m part of setup on alternate fediverse instances (lemm.ee and sffa). So far, it’s been rather disappointing though.
The federation hasn’t seemed to work well on either platform, so this is the third account I’ve had to make in order to participate in a discussion.
I use straight up reddit on my desktop computer, I don’t access it from my phone except in extremely rare circumstances, so the changes for third party apps don’t really affect me. Part of me wants to show solidarity, but if I’m not going to get a remotely comparable experience, then I don’t really have an incentive to quit Reddit. Many of the subreddits I’m interested in haven’t made any migration that I’m aware of, and I didn’t see substitutions for them in SFFA
It sucks that they won’t face any sort of consequences for destroying a wonderful platform.
I’d say a significant decrease in valuation just before IPO is some consequence. Not enough to truly impact Spez personally mind you, but it’s something.
I’d love to see the idiots who want to buy “shares of reddit” lol thinking they are investing in some amazing new tech.
Businesses valuations and a business’ success overall unfortunately don’t always correlate to what the business seemingly has to offer. In this case, reddit is not going to be sold as a community website, but rather a marketing tool.
It’s as the saying goes - if the service is free, you’re the product. I think there will be a decline in active users and overall engagement, which I suspect might lead to fewer ad impressions. Spez is banking on the fact that eliminating third party apps will make up for that.
So long as there is a critical mass of users - which there will be for the foreseeable future, and so long as Spez only goes half Musk and doesn’t turn the site into an alt-right paradise, I see reddit potentially becoming profitable. Advertisers who have been scared away from Twitter/X might be looking to go somewhere safer and might find that in Reddit once all this controversy blows over.
And it will blow over in terms of relevance to advertisers. The API controversy doesn’t concern the average person. Even a CEO being a petulant child is barely worth mentioning to most.
Reddit users assumed that the site was for them. Spez has made it clear that it is not, that it is for advertisers. As much as I hate to say it, there will be plenty of people jumping on the Reddit IPO from that perspective.
I think it could lead to a whole load of narcissistic rage to see his brilliant ideas backfire.
Lemmy is an upgrade. So all harm done to reddit is a net gain