"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 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 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 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 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.
Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve logged into Reddit since I started using Lenmy
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.
