How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit
A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever
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"Despite these concessions, dozens of Redditors promised to stop using the site altogether "
There are dozens of us!! Lol
Fucking delusional on this writer’s part. It was far more than dozens and a lot of those people were power users with an outsized influence on the community.
I personally moderated two 150-250k user subs. Stepped down from both and wiped all my posts and comments and have not contributed a single thing since.
I modded a couple of million user subs, and ended up replacing all of my posts with the same text before never logging in again. Wonder if I've been removed from any of them yet.
Side note, my life has improved so much after not doing free work for reddit. The things I'd see everyday.. looking back I'd never do it again.
I learned the "Don't be a mod for free" lesson back in the IRC days. It's not worth the mental strain, even if it's for a community you love.
Smart man, I will hate you less in the future for being a fucking mod.
I went from multiple comments per day and posts almost every day to a couple comments a week and I think I've made one post since the protests
That place got hella toxic since the protests
The official Reddit app pushes "recommended" stuff into your feed constantly, and the posts and comments both seem to be even more pervasively negative than before the 3rd party apps shut down. Scrolling on Reddit is even worse for your mental health and outward perspective than it used to be.
I refuse to use the reddit app since they killed my favorite reddit app
And browsing on a mobile browser has gotten even worse recently as well so I'm only using it on my desktop
It's gotten so bad over there
Same. They killed Apollo, so I dipped.
Heck I'm still using my favorite reddit app, just now with lemmy instead
Using Boost or something else?
I'm using eternity (formerly infinity)
I wish that was true for askhistorians. For some reason, there's a lot of people with a huge amount of knowledge and potential that are attached at the hip to corporate platforms.
I mean they are historians sticking archaic sites is there thing /joking
I tried to wipe my comments but I during the protest I couldn't access my user page, I could manually navigate to each of my comments via the posts but that would have been an impossible task. Soon after submitting a service ticket I was permabanned for a comment I'd made 2 years earlier.. and even more bizarrely they message me a few weeks later saying they'd taken action against an account I'd reported for CP 4 years ago
I didn't wipe my old account, but I have not been back since everything went down. I've looked at it occasionally but contributed nothing. It seems pretty shit atm.
i think most reluctantly have some use for it still. i only use it for gamethreads and the shittiest of shitposts, or for super niche things that don't have any equivalent on lemmy. at the end of the day, i think people would rather stay connected with their communities than abandon them, even if it means providing value for some of the stupidest and most malignant people in the world at the same time. look how many people are still using twitter
even if it means providing value for some of the stupidest and most malignant people in the world at the same time
This is so emblematic of the human condition. Poisoning ourselves to relieve stress, buying slave-made clothes to stay warm. Burning our skin to attract mates. Toxifying our own environment for convenience. Humans really are some dumb ass creatures. We are reaping what we sow.
I had to create a new work account on reddit as it has the by far best community for sysadmins I have ever found, and I needed help with an undocumented issue in a system we use at work.
Come to think of it, I don't think I've logged into Reddit since I started using Lenmy
I haven't really either. Apart from the the odd Google search results here and there, but not actually logging in.
I did a couple of weeks ago, after being off it for a couple of months...it was awful. I closed my account and deleted my saved login info. I only go to it now if it comes up in a search and seems relevant.
That link linked to /modcoord at perhaps dozens of moderators promised to leave, which is far more impactful than users. I know just from watching kbin, lemmy and other sites grow from this summer on that hundreds to thousands likely left reddit. Unfortunately it's probably a drop in the bucket but Web 2.0 was always probably going to win. The only real way I can see of us getting out of that en masse if when each site inevitably kills themselves through mismanagement.
I was a moderator of a minor misspelt subreddit. I marked it private when I left. That'll annoy about 700 - 2000 people. I haven't deleted my account, and I do visit every couple of months for a community that hasn't moved which I like (though it has gone downhill)
no need to exaggerate 😬
I didn't see you at the convention in Munich last summer.
I teleconferenced in. Did you go to the seminar on chafing?
I’m doing my part. 🫡
