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.
Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoLot of wishful thinking in here. Fact is, Reddit isn’t going anywhere.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 month ago
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Lemmy’s largest userbase growth of all time, ever, happened during the reddit API fiasco.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Did some people leave? Sure. Any actual significant portion? No, not even a little.
btaf45@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes. More than a little. It was a huge event for lemmy. Did you think the entire reddit userbase was going to switch in one week? Reddit didn’t get their userbase in one week. Everything in reddit looks shittier than it was before the exodus.
cygnus@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
There’s also no correlation between creating a Lemmy account and completely quitting Reddit.
IMongoose@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
How many of them are real users vs bots though? It’s easy to inflate numbers
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Meh, I deleted my account and moved on. Other than snarky comments I don’t really care what happens to it anymore.
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 month 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 1 month 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.