Most redditors who aren’t willing to bend over and take whatever Spez wants to shove into their asses have already switched to Lemmy.
We’ll get a few stragglers, but I wouldn’t expect much of a reaction at this point.
Today? Maybe a few. A week, a month, a year from now? Reddit is going to get worse. People will leave.
Looking at Twitter it’s clear some folks will never leave no matter how bad it gets, but plenty of folks will leave.
Man i wish people would understand just how funny it would’ve been to just drop twitter literally the tay elon took over. Same with reddit. Of course you’ll always have people who don’t even know, don’t care or even like it. But fucking imagine the twitter takeover and only elon and a few of his dick sniffers are basically a private discord server
I have said it before, yes, people might leave. But the kind of people that stick so long to a dying platform are the ones that will never make it to Lemmy, Mastodon or whatever fediverse alternative you have.
None of these federated platforms employs any dark pattern algorithms to keep users engaged and clicking as much as possible. The kind of user that stays until the enshittification is not bearable anymore will not like the way the fediverse operates. So they go to some other place. Maybe its Facebook again, maybe Instagram, who knows.
The time is ripe for a new contender, so expect a bunch of The Next Big Thing ™ apps that are almost identical, begging for your email address and contacts list so they can sign all your friends up too!
They don’t deserve to come into our communities
I wouldn’t say that they don’t deserve something better, just that they’re not capable of it.
I think that the ones who revolted against their preparatory enshittification aren’t Reddit users anymore (hence why I’m here), and the ones who didn’t revolt won’t do it now either.
the unruly userbase that largely rolled over and continued used reddit after its API changes with all but a meagre protest? Yeah im sure they’ll be fine.
Calm as Hindu cows
Why would they revolt? I’d assume most of the people that cared enough to take the revolt over killing third party apps and all that have left or at least minimized their Reddit use. So that leaves bots, the apathetic, and niche community users who might complain but aren’t going anywhere.
Maybe not right now, but when shareholders start demanding action over NSFW subs or subs that discuss illegal activities or subs that discuss the evils of capitalism or subs that just aren’t profitable and those subs start getting shuttered, then they will.
Reminds me of Youtube. Guns and drugs, don’t make advertiser friendly videos, and that’s why the platform only barely tolerates those videos. From the predictive of YT, they demand resources without giving any direct revenue. I can see the reason why those channels tend struggle so much.
Why are we still talking about reddit?
I doubt most users care about the IPO directly. What does it matter if the platform is owned by a few scumbags or many?
But as we know, pressure to attain profitability may push Reddit to introduce increasingly user-hostile features. This is where the possibility for the next revolt lies.
Let that sinking ship join Myspace and Tumblr already. Revolting may rise awareness of the problem, but it isn’t going to change the direction where Reddit is headed. They need to become profitable, and they’ve decided to do that by backstabbing the users.
The users and mods are already covered in dried caked blood from the many times they’ve already been back stabbed, front stabbed, side stabbed, thrown off a cliff and pissed on yet they’re still there working away for free while those who care absolutely nothing about the site are all making money off it.
It’s the pinnacle of capitalism.
It’s only a matter of time until they completely ban porn.
Some of us are old enough to remember the demise of Digg. The same userbase that moved to Reddit over a decade ago will move somewhere else.
That user base is a drop in the ocean compared to most of reddits user base, and those people have all left already.
You’re probably right since we’re having this conversation outside of Reddit.
Do another 2 day blackout. That’ll show 'em.
Ooh. Imagine the content of the investor calls if there is another blackout.
There would no longer be any hesitation to ban or censor everybody involved.
Reddit users are all bots and conservatives these days. They are programmed to obey.
Let’s ask the same question in another way.
Can we make its userbase revolt? If yes, how?
You are asking the same question the somethingrotten forum users asked themselves when they came up with the answer of SRS (shitredditsays).
Designed to meta-criticise the users of reddit itself, it feeds itself as users submit their own, (curated), idea of what a shitty redditor is.
Let the snake eat itself
Good to know - I wasn’t aware of SRS’ origins.
I feel like someone could do better than SomethingRotten though, by playing both sides, and encouraging users from both to brigade and annoy the shit out of your typical user. To the point that the users start asking themselves “what am I supposed to do here? If I support [cause], Reddit screeches at me; if I oppose [cause], Reddit screeches at me; and if I don’t do either, both screech at me! Perhaps I should stop using Reddit.”
This could be based on porn (perhaps a good target for that; as @remotelove@lemmy.ca said, who controls porn controls the internet)), or even some ultimately pointless matter, like pineapple on pizza.
*not sure on who would “we” be in this sentence.
It’s always revolting.
Can we make it revolt harder, then?
More specifically: are there ways to encourage the current Reddit userbase to act so notoriously destructively towards the platform, that no sane investor would burn their money buying Reddit stock?
If you can control the porn, you control the internet.
So, if you can somehow trigger a revolt in all the NSFW subreddits, you win. Reddit stock will tank before it goes public.
That’s a fun idea - specially if we could recruit the Reddit “porn is bad!” crowds to raid Reddit NSFW subs.
no
Who cares?
Reddit users have always been revolting
Can confirm
Advisor: “Sire, the peasants are revolting!”
Blackadder: “Yes they are disgusting arent they”Count DeMoney: “The peasants are revolting.”
King: “You can say that again, they stink on ice.”
—History of the World Part I
The only people left there actually engaging and not just checking out funny vids on their phone are drones, corpo bootlickers and scammers anyway lol
Don’t forget about bots, when I occasionally find my way there because of some development problems, it’s just super low quality content on new posts
So many bots
Sadly tons of subs are very active with real people. It’s a lot of momentum to shift.
Inertia
Oh I’m not saying they aren’t, I’m just saying they’re corpo bootlickers who probably don’t have ublock installed because they think piracy is wrong or some shit and I’d never want to be around them anyway
They already kicked out or scared off the most vocal last year.
