User visits and time spent on the social media platform normalize after traffic to Reddit briefly dipped last week during the blackout, according to SimilarWeb.
I went on Reddit yesterday for the first time since the strike, whilst trying to debug a code issue. Almost every post from years old questions had the replies deleted by the users. I think the real damage will be the deletion of content and the change in tone from redditors. Most useful discourse will be gone and it will turn into a place only for arguing, memes and shit posting. Advertisers aren’t going to want to pay to advertise on low quality content like that.
I truly feel most of the 3rd party app users were the more level headed folks in the userbse. For the most part we were users there since before reddit had an app when good discourse took place. We’re taking that discourse with us and I anticipate further deterioration of reddit. More akin to Facebook style toxicity and echo chambering. I’m sad to see it because overall that’s a net loss for humanity/the internet. But I like it here.
The Reddit board are profiting off you though, your knowledge in those searches has value and you see zero while.spez and co get millions. Try to get it off Reddit.
There are forums that are still being run for the stuff I need or youtube. I’ve managed to avoid reddit search results for two weeks and used steam or dedicated forums for every thing else from tech stuff to cooking. I never used reddit for anything but doomscrolling so I’m familiar with other resources.
True, plenty of the useful posts, advice, opinions will be lost. Unfortunately i don’t think Reddit will suffer much for it, eventually spez will get his IPO, and possibly have moderators replaced by paid staff and/or bots. Life will go on there almost certainly for the worse. Social media and the monetization of people win again.
Edit: i deleted my posts, comments, and account there. Same as Facebook and Twitter.
I went on Reddit yesterday for the first time since the strike, whilst trying to debug a code issue. Almost every post from years old questions had the replies deleted by the users. I think the real damage will be the deletion of content and the change in tone from redditors. Most useful discourse will be gone and it will turn into a place only for arguing, memes and shit posting. Advertisers aren’t going to want to pay to advertise on low quality content like that.
I truly feel most of the 3rd party app users were the more level headed folks in the userbse. For the most part we were users there since before reddit had an app when good discourse took place. We’re taking that discourse with us and I anticipate further deterioration of reddit. More akin to Facebook style toxicity and echo chambering. I’m sad to see it because overall that’s a net loss for humanity/the internet. But I like it here.
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The Reddit board are profiting off you though, your knowledge in those searches has value and you see zero while.spez and co get millions. Try to get it off Reddit.
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i wont wipe my reddit account because i dont want to destroy the posts i made.
You can scrape them. Bots are slowly importing posts to Lemmy communities from their legacy sources
Well host those comments on your own website and submit it to Google to be indexed?
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That will just get you buried under the hordes of SEO garbage. People add “reddit” to their searches because regular search is useless.
There are forums that are still being run for the stuff I need or youtube. I’ve managed to avoid reddit search results for two weeks and used steam or dedicated forums for every thing else from tech stuff to cooking. I never used reddit for anything but doomscrolling so I’m familiar with other resources.
True, plenty of the useful posts, advice, opinions will be lost. Unfortunately i don’t think Reddit will suffer much for it, eventually spez will get his IPO, and possibly have moderators replaced by paid staff and/or bots. Life will go on there almost certainly for the worse. Social media and the monetization of people win again. Edit: i deleted my posts, comments, and account there. Same as Facebook and Twitter.