The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.

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• shinobizilla@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Partly because the majority of the people didn’t even know there were 3rd party apps lol. Many people don’t even care about the protests. Reddit is too big for it to go down overnight.

  The only thing we could do now is build better communities here.

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  • Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was one of those people, didn;t even know about the 3rd party stuff until they were nearly gone. The site took a noticeable decline in quality and that’s why I’m here.

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    • Fish@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I thought Mastodon, Lemmy, and Kbin were all the same thing until about a week before I lost access to RIF. I’m sure glad I looked into all the Reddit alternatives and found Lemmy.

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• who8mydamnoreos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I won because Im free of that site

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• omnius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reddit didn’t win over me. I edited all my comments to “fuck u/spez”, got suspended from a couple subreddits, and then never logged back in to my account. Been using Lemmy ever since.

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• BilboBargains@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We did it Reddit!

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• CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  News brought to you be [official news side totally not paid by spez]

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• anonyplum@lemm.ee [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just a matter of time till majority of its users realise how easy it is to migrate to lemmy and how greedy and evil reddit has become.

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• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Assuming that this is not just Reddit paying Gizmodo for an article to discourage people from using Lemmy by shaping the narrative that everyone is back on Reddit, then I would say it’s just way too early for Gizmodo to make this call.

  Enough people have come over to make a push/pull environment happen between the two sites. Time will tell which one pulls the most over to their side.

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• original_ish_name@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The victor is not victorius if the vanquished does not consider themselves so

  Never stop fighting, we will win!

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  • cosmicboi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why fight when you can just delete your account and be done with it? :)

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• cazool@blip.cf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A shadow of its former self but they managed to clear out the troublemakers

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• dreadedsemi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is like Bush’s mission accomplished. Too early to tell. Thanks to that though I found this nice community.

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• chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No surprise here, just like Bernie Sanders, Mueller, and everything else, le reddit blindly overestimated what was going to happen. I’m willing to bet less than 10% of reddit even knows there were other apps, they just want cat pics and reposted tiktoks.

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• Pregnenolone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t think the war has been won. This might have been the biggest battle, but it’s going to be the years that tell the story, not the months or the days.

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• sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lemmy won imo

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• TheFrirish@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I agree that reddit one but it was a, pyrrhic victory the content quality has massively gone down. I still have a secondary account there but I only use it to spread the word about lemmy. Haven’t used it in weeks because I don’t want to attract too much attention and get suspended.

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• poudlardo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No they did not won. People just expect people to move out from an historic platform overnight. This just doesn’t happen like that. Like Twitter, they’ll be small events that will make users want to ifnd alternatives and migrate here.

  That crisis made Lemmy way more populated, just for that we won in a way

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• Im28xwa@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can moderators on reddit delete the subreddits they moderate?

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nope. You need to kick everyone out and leave. Anyone could message admins and request to take over.

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    • Im28xwa@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was thinking it was like chat groups in IM apps the owner/creator of the group can delete the group, so only Reddit can delete the subreddit that I create!

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