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Darnov

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US Angry Leftist.

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Reddit feels like it's gone back to 100% normalcy already. Was the protest a failure? (beehaw.org)

I was looking at reddit today, and the front-page felt like nothing happened. I scrolled and scrolled and scrolled and clicked into comments. Everything is popping off buzzing with activity. All the subreddits I was subscribed to that went dark are now back up and business as usual....

Cube6392,
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This is still a developing migration. There are new active users on the threadiverse that weren't there before. The threadiverse has reached a form of critical mass where if people stick around, they can still have an enjoyable social experience without revisiting Reddit. If Reddit continues to exist, that's fine, I guess. I can't control what other people do. The important thing to me is that things that aren't Reddit are becoming viable in ways they were not before. We don't rely on this tech company anymore, we rely on ourselves.

Further, I predict that while traffic is stabilizing back to pre-protest days, that quality will continue to decline. It's not going to be instant that Reddit dies. It's a slow, steady, crawl into the grave for them

Cube6392,
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I anticipate spez leaving as soon as the IPO is done on the basis of "fuck you got mine"

Sordid,
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I don't mean to toot my own horn too much, but it went exactly as I expected. Reddit is a huge business, it was never going to let a bunch of volunteers dictate its policies and business practices. And people are apathetic sheep, so an effective boycott was not in the cards either.

That said, it remains to be seen whether or not the protest was a failure. If nothing else, it motivated a ton of people to seek out alternatives, and those alternatives are getting better, in no small part due to the influx of new users, while Reddit is all but certain to continue getting worse. Digg suffered a sudden drop in popularity following its disastrous redesign, but it kept limping along for years afterward. Did Spez win this battle or did he doom his company? We'll see in five years or so.

Pamasich, (edited )
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A quarter of all subreddits are still private or restricted (can't post in them). This includes ones like /r/music or /r/programming. Of the 6 30+ million subscriber subreddits, only 3 have returned to normalcy. One is restricted, two others are in john oliver mode. The developers of Minecraft have officially abandoned Reddit as a platform, and advertisers are still pulling out as well.

i_r_weldr,

What a fucking cuck

FIST_FILLET,
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smells like scab

Google thinks its new Perspectives tab will finally get you to stop adding 'Reddit' to searches (www.androidpolice.com)

While the technology shows promise, early testers have found that it falls short of a well-known search trick: adding "reddit" to the end of queries. Instead of directing readers to sites targeting SEO traffic, this straightforward technique draws on the knowledge of Reddit's community to provide actual help from forum...

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