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 totally believe this. Exactly zero of the 11K subscribers of the sub I mod have followed me over to the fediverse--despite a third of them 'supporting' the idea of keeping the sub dark.

Still deciding if I should just be an 'absentee mod' (not post anything personally, but keep things reasonably orderly) or let someone else mod it and move on. I just cant, in good conscience, 'return to normal'.

I continued to look reddit for reasons, but honestly the feed is deteriorating fast, maybe traffic is back, people posting content, not so much, engagement? Even less, it's like looking to a old mediocre Google News feed.

I always said, redditors are good at complaining, but do nothing else.

r/workreform is one of the most popular subs, yet reddit's userbase can't even protest online properly.

Your work reform is never coming, plebbit. just saying.

Obviously if PC Mag says it it must be true. /S

I'm more curious about how the numbers will look after they nix 3rd party apps. There's bound to be a dip after June 30.

I've cut out Reddit, if lemmy dies my social media use dies with it.

I'll be here contributing to the community as long as everyone else is.

It's going to dip again when third party apps are shut off. Personally I'm still browsing Reddit to check in on the drama on /r/ModCoord

...normal or "hey, it's all good because we said so"?

From what I have seen, traffic is down 9-10% now, which is quite significant.

https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/social-media-news/reddit-blackout/

Also the world has found out there are alternatives, so if mobile apps stop working or cost money by July, we may see a similar drop again.

What happens after that is hard to say. IMO reddit has steadily deteriorated compared to what it was 15 years ago. I miss the old reddit, what reddit is today I won't miss.

Reddit will probably survive, and that may be for the best for Lemmy too. As long as Lemmy stays sustainable, I think we are better off without most of the people who choose to stay with reddit. Because those are likely to also be the people who don't really care about values.

Once Apollo is inactive, so am I.

I’ve been here 50% or more. Won’t be hard, lol. Idiots

Let the sheep stay, while we enjoy some fresh air in the fediverse.

Returns to normal.... minus me, HA TAKE THAT SPEZ!

Welp they are getting way less traffic from me. All I do is occasionally log on and see which subs are creatively protesting now 😆

I was an active member of reddit for over a decade. That ended during the blackout and I refuse to go back. I have blocked reddit at the router level to ensure they see no traffic from my network

When Apollo stops working, I will only be accessing Reddit via old.reddit.com

I refuse to use that shitshow of an ad riddled official app.

When the quality of content drops on reddit , people will automatically move to Lemmy.

Minus me. I used that fancy script to change all my comments to a statement and I deleted all my posts.

Too early to judge. Wait a month at least

Not for this user lol

Read that and came here