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The blackout is starting to have a financial impact on Reddit, but we must stay dark! (www.adweek.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Jessica@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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If the performance weakness continues for a week or two, the agency would start recommending decreasing spend with Reddit or directing it to other platforms.

After the blackout, we will be closely monitoring user behavior on Reddit and guide clients when we can unpause,” said Freddy Dabaghi, managing director at Stagwell-backed Crispin Porter Bogusky, which has asked clients to stop campaigns, depending on their client goals.

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[-] squid_mcnasty@lemmy.world 216 points 2 years ago

Honestly, regardless of what happens, I have no plans to go back. Lemmy's been a refreshing breath of fresh air.

[-] squid010@beehaw.org 74 points 2 years ago

Same. It's really struck me both how little I miss it and how much I like the communities here. There's a much friendlier vibe.

And for the most part, aside from the bullshit threads where it's encouraged and expected, the comments are a lot more 'high-effort,' which is nice. That's something that I would expect to tend to naturally go down with the lowest common denominator as user count increases, but we'll see.

[-] Fubarberry@lemmy.fmhy.ml 49 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I think the kind of people to drop reddit over this are going to be more my kind of people, if that makes sense.

Conversation seems deeper, less dominated by repeated jokes.

[-] totallynotsocsa@beehaw.org 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The forum wheel spins what the forum wheel wills. It does feel like the start of a new era, and also extremely familiar.

[-] louija@vlemmy.net 14 points 2 years ago

Lemmy was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to Reddit-esque forums. But it was a beginning.

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago

All praise the hamster

[-] hydra@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

also you don't have a karma system homogenizing behavior by making redditors constantly addicted to upcummies

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

As much as I'll miss my karma crops, the higher bar here (at least, for now) is a welcome reprieve.

[-] FlaxPicker@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Doesn’t lemmy have w “points” thing?

[-] hydra@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

At least the web UI doesn't show me my net score if there's one. And no one seems to care about karma or having a minimum karma to post like on Reddit. It was frustrating making a new account just to post on certain subs and having my stuff removed preemptively. I just hope to never experience that ever again.

[-] FlaxPicker@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Even on reddit i didn’t care about karma, just posted and commented when i felt like it and where i felt like it.

[-] Tywele@feddit.de 64 points 2 years ago

I also like it more and more, especially since more communities are popping up and they get more populated.

[-] Kroxx@lemmy.world 52 points 2 years ago

It really is, there isn't as much content as reddit and that may or may not change but the lack of people acting like they are better than everyone makes it well worth it. I deleted the app and won't go back

[-] oskiboi@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago

Fully agree, let’s keep this attitude going here! :)

[-] focusedkiwibear@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

yup, let those folk stay on Reddit.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago

I wanted to leave for such a long time, but the alternatives weren't active enough.

If enough people stick around, yeah, I'm never going back.

[-] Belgdore@lemm.ee 31 points 2 years ago

I’m really hoping the federated nature will make advertising harder. That’s what really started making Reddit suck.

[-] kratoz29@lemmy.fmhy.ml 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Until all the communities I love move here I think I'd be hopping back and forth from Sync for Reddit and Jeroba for Lemmy, until that happens or Sync breaks lol.