I think every subreddit should have created a community on a reddit alternative, like lemmy, kbin, etc. and actively promoted it as a "temporary" replacement. This way, Reddit waiting out the blackout risks losing marketshare to the alternative.<p>Right now, that risk is very low because the alternatives didn't seem to have picked up enough critical mass, especially outside a few big topics like technology or news. Without an alternative picking up steam and stealing eyeballs, Reddit doesn't have an incentive to come to the table and can easily wait this out.
Something is afoot over there. I updated and then removed all comments, like, everything on my account, and then deleted the account a few days ago. And now its back with the previous comment I updated everything to intact. They did some form of rollback.
I’ma lurker on Reddit. No account, I just browse the top threads to kill time on the bus.<p>From my perspective absolutely nothing has changed other than some new subreddits hitting the front page. The topics are the same. Maybe a little more international content——I can’t recall “ich_iel” ever making it to the top before.<p>I understand most users are lurkers like me. With that in mind, I don’t believe these blackouts will accomplish much. They’ll probably accelerate the homogenization of the platform and the race to the bottom in terms of quality, but that is happening anyway. I already know Reddit is mind-numbing days-old TikTok memes, I use it anyway because I like the interface more.<p>Edit: it isn’t that I am against the blackout, I just think in realpolitik terms it is not effective since most people are really not that invested or interested in participating in activism for their memes.
Just to add to the list of alternatives, I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. It's sort of a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid. We've built a place to monetarily incentivize ownership over the communities created on the platform. It feels like the people curating the communities should be rewarded for the work that they do.<p>Here's an example community: <a href="https://sociables.com/community/Sports/board/trending" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://sociables.com/community/Sports/board/trending</a>
So, I briefly visited reddit twice over the past 2 days and I noticed something interesting.<p>Each time I visited, I had a new reply to one of my recent posts.<p>Each time, the reply was pretty obviously from a bot account (newly created username with a non-sensical reply).<p>I'm speculating that reddit is being infiltrated by bots. Clearly, I only have 2 tiny data points to support this notion. But I wonder if an influx of bots, coupled with the loss of popular subreddits will be difficult for reddit to deal with.<p>Basically, if reddit is suddenly filled with noise (bots) it may reduce the desire of real humans to return. </speculation>
This is unfortunate for the long tail of communities since places like /r/hardwareswap do rely on automation significantly to drive their functionality. Reddit is a little bit like a Craigslist in that sense: it is hard to unbundle, but also it is hard for the bundle to capitalize on the market flow through it.<p>Interesting puzzle, for sure, and I will be curious to see if there will be a new meta-community that can create the wide range of communities like /r/tipofmytongue, /r/hardwareswap, /r/changemyview, etc.<p>Reddit may be unable to justify its valuation without being able to drive more revenue but there is a place for a meta-community that is more focused like that without having any of the complex pieces of functionality like federation, etc.
I'm doing my part!<p>Just killed all my comments and then deleted the account, after over a decade on the site. Would have had to go in July any way once my RIF app quit working on me. So what's a few days? Gives me more time to find alternatives before the rush gets there. I remember digg. This is more of the same.<p>Just history rhyming again.
I support this, but as someone who doesn't have a Reddit account currently it also makes me want to create one again, just to be able to read threads that come up in my search results.<p>But then again I would be supporting Reddit (the company, not the community), which would be counterproductive to the initiatives objective.
I'm starting to see sub Reddit's come back as "unblocked." People are creating r/subreditUnblocked communities and filling the void
As a lowly redditor I feel this has become a fight between a nomenclatura of moderators and Reddit. The moderators believe they are taking the rightful fight, but as far as I am concerned, they they don't represent a community since they are not elected by it. They elect themselves, right? So this is less of a grass roots movement than it may appear.
I see a lot of backlash on reddit right now. A few of the top voted comments in a couple of the threads on my current frontpage:<p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/149cq9f/comment/jo4fs7t/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/149cq9f/comment/jo4...</a><p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/149cq9f/comment/jo4gy94/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/149cq9f/comment/jo4...</a><p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/148xygd/comment/jo2h5hp/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://old.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/148xygd/comment/j...</a><p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/148xygd/comment/jo2g0k3/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://old.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/148xygd/comment/j...</a>
Based on the interview Christian Selig gave, Apollo has enough active and paying users, that he could continue to make this work with adjustments to the backend code as well as paid products offered by Apollo. Understandably, it seems there is little will after the relationship between Christian and Reddit soured.<p>My guess is, Christian is content that he can now fully focus on Pixel Pals.