It’s kind of indicative of how bad the web has gotten that twitter and reddit still have users. Digg completely imploded over much less than this. Just that back in 2010, there was somewhere else to go.
inb4 Lemmy. I get it, but we’re not there yet.
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AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That dude is really trying to kill his own platform, isn’t he?
ch00f@lemmy.world 3 months ago
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I love Lemmy but I really, really miss the old web. Back when people would just create their own website and put it out there to share their niche interest with the world. People just organically linked their sites to each other to form web rings, an easy method of federation without any reliance on sophisticated server-side software.
amanda@aggregatet.org 3 months ago
I still do this!
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Does anyone find your stuff? Search engines seem to be less and less capable of finding indie websites and pick most results to shopping and/or image results, or else if it’s a question it goes Reddit/quora/stack exchange before any search results.
I finally shut off my old self hosted Wordpress last year because traffic had dwindled to a couple hits a month or less. Besides the constant bot traffic trying to hijack the site.
The_v@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The heyday of the forums. For about 2 years the combination of Tapatalk and forums was awesome. Centralized interface with no ads, all the discussion.
Then they both gutted their functionality and spammed in the ads.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 months ago
They’re still around.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How do I find them though? I would love a search engine that only finds these sites and excludes all the commercial ones and all the ad spam.
thehatfox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The makeup of web users has changed a lot since 2010. The average web surfer was a lot less passive in attitude in decades past.
balancedchaos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I hate listening to my younger brother talk about technology. He is just a sheep in an apple pen, and perfectly happy. I don’t get it.
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Quarterly reports demand that line go up.
The line must always go up.
cheddar@programming.dev 3 months ago
He’s trying to make money, he doesn’t care about the platform or its future. The Boeing’s CEO during the two 737 MAX crashes had to resign… with $62.2 million in his pockets. These people live in a different world.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The enshittification must go on!
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Lot of wishful thinking in here. Fact is, Reddit isn’t going anywhere.
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 months ago
What will likely happen is the worst assholes will be the ones paying for this stuff, much like Xitter, because it is a demonstration of being a part of the alt-right, ultra-capitalist in-group.
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Huffman is a greedy bastard, but I don’t think he’s alt-right. He’s a bland neoliberal hypocrite. He is an advisor at the ADL and made a post saying that black lives matter, while not actually doing anything to help and actively profiting from what he said he was against.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
It was wishful thinking when people revolted for 3 days against the API going away. What happened? Nothing. People were back to Reddit as normal a week later. Reddit’s userbase has only grown since then. People will complain to the ends of the Earth but there’s no amount of abuse you can levy at the them that will convince them to make the minor inconvenience of moving to a different platform. See: Twitter.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Lemmy’s largest userbase growth of all time, ever, happened during the reddit API fiasco.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Did some people leave? Sure. Any actual significant portion? No, not even a little.
IMongoose@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Reddit has over 1,000,000,000 active users per month. Lemmy has about 50,000. The API fiasco was a big deal for lemmy, but it was not a big deal for reddit. Lemmy is a rounding error to them.
I would also bet that a lot of lemmy users still visit reddit for their niche communities. I know I do, even though I host a server for my own niche hobby, but I’m the only one who’s ever posted anything to it.
j4yt33@feddit.org 3 months ago
How many of them are real users vs bots though? It’s easy to inflate numbers
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Meh, I deleted my account and moved on. Other than snarky comments I don’t really care what happens to it anymore.
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
The way I interpret what he is suggesting is that they are planning on going after Patreon type websites that provide a private paid for space for a creator’s supporters. It’s unlikely, but they could also pretty easily go after OF to keep that traffic on site.
JonnyJ@lemmy.world 3 months ago
i mean, this is the site that blocked nsfw content from hitting the front page
fluxion@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Short-term gains > *
Erasmus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Taking lessons from Elon.
Maybe they need to charge users a monthly fee and add blue check marks. Lol
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wasn’t Huffman singing Elon’s praises after the Twitter purchase?
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Huffman is a full on Musketeer.
unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
How has this demonym only just now come to my attention?
It’s fantastic, thank you.
Thrife@feddit.org 3 months ago
I remember that too, but am not that sure…
Oh yeah, he did! nbcnews.com/…/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo…
Doing right as his role model!
stonerboner@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
He pointed at Twitter’s “success” after Elon took it over as reasons why he is enshittifying Reddit. That comment is why I left Reddit and haven’t looked back.
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
And after the Twitter api pricing
Technofrood@feddit.uk 3 months ago
So Reddit gold?
PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t miss the often-regurgitated response of “Gee, thanks stranger” that Redditers would say after receiving gold. It would always annoy me.
tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Thank you kind stranger!
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ooh, I wonder if he’ll sue all the users that left Reddit to join Lemmy.