Reddit protest by its community moderators has impacted user engagements, traffic and visits to its ad portal since its beginning on June 12.
Honestly, while I’m happily settled here in the “threadiverse” and all that, I’ve seen that the main subs I used to visit and have now reopened, are all working about the same as before the protests. They were all basically niches, so they weren’t as badly affected by bot comments and the such. We will see, however, if their moderation can still keep up after the 1st tho.
Let’s see if it continues through July and August.
I’m hopeful, but there is still a lot of content engagement over on Reddit. It doesn’t seem like it’s struggling all that much from a surface level observation.
Giant websites like Reddit don’t die overnight, death by a thousand cuts is how it happens.
No one expects Reddit to shutter in the span of a month or two, but as more and more people get fed up and move, the rest will follow.
Everyone who acts like Reddit can’t crumble when social media changes all the time are silly. Reddit won’t be around forever
This is (maybe) the “beginning” of the end for Reddit, not the “end” of the end. The big change isn’t Reddit, but here.
When Digg fell, everyone moved to Reddit. When this API situation started there was not an obvious new solution to move to. Lemmy/KBin were mentioned but not readily accepted due to concerns with the content and capabilities of the fediverse. That is changing quickly, and the next time Reddit screws up, we will have much more active communities, quality apps, and fewer bugs.