I doubt we will see any big dent in numbers so soon, if at all. The brutal honest truth is that most users of Reddit are casual lurkers who just want a content feed and do not care about anything else. This is why subreddits protested as they did, interrupting the content feed with blackouts and extremely niche rules.
What may actually happen is that a lot of the content creators leave, which will decrease the quality of the site in the long term and maybe push out the casual user when the content gets bad enough. This is not something easily quantifiable, so we’ll just have to wait and see.
But personally, I’m ok even if reddit isn’t toppled. Now that I’ve stopped using it, I have no stake in the matter anymore.
Yeah. In the beginning I’m rooting for the death of reddit but now that I’ve weaned myself off of it I just don’t give a shit any more. They can rake in billions, or they can crumble tomorrow. I’m elsewhere and I feel fine.
lol the official app came to be long after 3rd party apps existed. The official app itself was a 3rd party app that Reddit purchased (though nothing good remains)
I hope reddit adopts twitters new rate limiting and stars making people log in to view content that will really drive traffic away and make searches for blank reddit searches dissappear from Google and hopefully be replaced by blank lemmy start showing up in Google
I doubt we will see any big dent in numbers so soon, if at all. The brutal honest truth is that most users of Reddit are casual lurkers who just want a content feed and do not care about anything else. This is why subreddits protested as they did, interrupting the content feed with blackouts and extremely niche rules.
What may actually happen is that a lot of the content creators leave, which will decrease the quality of the site in the long term and maybe push out the casual user when the content gets bad enough. This is not something easily quantifiable, so we’ll just have to wait and see.
But personally, I’m ok even if reddit isn’t toppled. Now that I’ve stopped using it, I have no stake in the matter anymore.
Yeah. In the beginning I’m rooting for the death of reddit but now that I’ve weaned myself off of it I just don’t give a shit any more. They can rake in billions, or they can crumble tomorrow. I’m elsewhere and I feel fine.
Im a casual reddit lurker. I left because the official reddit app is horrible to browse even casually
See, but the fact you actually committed to leaving means there’s a lot more people even more casual than you still on reddit.
The fact that you used a 3rd party app and just commented on a thread means you are not as casual as the average Reddit consumer.
lol the official app came to be long after 3rd party apps existed. The official app itself was a 3rd party app that Reddit purchased (though nothing good remains)
Yeah, in the beginning of the debacle many people commented that they didn’t even know that there were third party clients.
I hope reddit adopts twitters new rate limiting and stars making people log in to view content that will really drive traffic away and make searches for blank reddit searches dissappear from Google and hopefully be replaced by blank lemmy start showing up in Google