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Reddit mods are organizing blackouts to protest against API changes
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this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2023
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Good. Though I expect it won't change a dammed thing. The Amina know what they're doing, this is a purge of thoughtful culture do they can promulgate the drivel that facilitates ad revenue generating doom scrolling.
Agreed. Previously these blackouts made a difference like against SOPA and non-reddit things, but they fully knew that this would cause backlash and deemed it still worth it. Maybe not this huge of backlash, but they know they're "too big to fail" at this point, people are comfortable.
I full expect this is going to go into effect. I'm hoping in this next month we can build Lemmy up to a decent enough successor so that if people do decide to look elsewhere we can provide them a landing space.
Apollo's dev said 1.5million people use his app. Let's say just 10% decide to stick to their guns and say "I'm leaving Reddit", that's still 150 thousand people who are looking for new communities. That's a ton of people we could bring here.
So I'm evangelizing for people to spin up more instances. Yes, they may be quiet now, but if we take this opportunity where Reddit showed their hand early, we could provide a hell of a landing place come July 1 for a huge chunk of Reddit. It's not going to match them in size right away, but we take this as a moment to start growing.
So start that instance, plug it everywhere, create that niche community. We don't know who may drop by in a few weeks.
Thanks for coming to my motivational speech.
Let's not forget it's Reddit that causes Hugs of Death
It's true, these are growing pains, but it comes with the territory. In the industry we call those good problems. We'd rather have problems because we're getting popular than not have users at all
This is true
Ooo you're smart, driving people to make more instances to help balance the large amounts of people leaving is a great idea, and would allow more niche subs to come here.
Exactly my thought. Why I host one for pop music. Real quiet now, but provides an easy gateway of members who only live in those few subs (and mainsubs) to join, and it's one I'm happy to host. There are dozens, probably hundreds of subs on Reddit under that umbrella, I think that warrants an instance.
Same with other general topics. One specific to gaming, one to sports, one to types of beer, idk any general subject I think can be an instance
It won't change a damn thing about Reddit, but a lot of people will be checking new places for memes.
Exacty. Even a couple thousand new users out of reddits millions make a huge difference
Although everyone is welcome, I think I would especially like seeing those who care enough about good social media experiences to want to use 3rd party clients join Fedi platforms like Lemmy.