That’s just measuring captive audience. What about all the influential users who have left because of how Reddit is treating their userbase. Removing mods who were protesting is a very short term solution. In the long term the overall quality of the site will be diminished.
It has caught cancer. They just haven’t totally realized it yet.
It’s just what brain drains are called when they happen on the internet. Term coined by /b/ if I’m not mistaken. Creative types start leaving for whatever reason, quality dips, and a feedback loop begins. Quality steadily drops until you’re left with a massive ratio of garbage spam to quality stuff worth looking at.
Now if we can just get those creative types that are wanting to leave to come here instead, then we’ll have the good content. Because it definitely follows along after the people that make it.
the end of reddit has arrived. might take a few months. but with every controversy, like leaves shaken from a dying tree, users will depart in droves to kbin or lemmy or whatever, and seed a new beginning.
Those numbers seem off IMO. I was over here already, but I went over there during the blackout and there simple wasn’t anything to read. The only subs that were up were the ones that I really didn’t read frequently anyway. During the blackout, actual human audience HAD to be far far lower.
I’d like to think so too, but that is ignoring all of those people who have admitted to instinctively opening Reddit because it’s their habit. There were probably a lot of people who, whether meaning to or not, kept returning to Reddit despite already finding out there wasn’t anything they wanted to read during the blackout.
This is how I feel. I made my account in 2009. Couple hundred thousand karma. You can’t really alienate the real people who give their time to create shit for free and expect your product to last. They will reap what they sowed.
That’s just measuring captive audience. What about all the influential users who have left because of how Reddit is treating their userbase. Removing mods who were protesting is a very short term solution. In the long term the overall quality of the site will be diminished.
It has caught cancer. They just haven’t totally realized it yet.
It’s just what brain drains are called when they happen on the internet. Term coined by /b/ if I’m not mistaken. Creative types start leaving for whatever reason, quality dips, and a feedback loop begins. Quality steadily drops until you’re left with a massive ratio of garbage spam to quality stuff worth looking at.
Now if we can just get those creative types that are wanting to leave to come here instead, then we’ll have the good content. Because it definitely follows along after the people that make it.
the end of reddit has arrived. might take a few months. but with every controversy, like leaves shaken from a dying tree, users will depart in droves to kbin or lemmy or whatever, and seed a new beginning.
The end of Reddit as a place where anyone interesting hangs out. Reddit will continue on as the Facebook of 2023.
Those numbers seem off IMO. I was over here already, but I went over there during the blackout and there simple wasn’t anything to read. The only subs that were up were the ones that I really didn’t read frequently anyway. During the blackout, actual human audience HAD to be far far lower.
I’d like to think so too, but that is ignoring all of those people who have admitted to instinctively opening Reddit because it’s their habit. There were probably a lot of people who, whether meaning to or not, kept returning to Reddit despite already finding out there wasn’t anything they wanted to read during the blackout.
This is how I feel. I made my account in 2009. Couple hundred thousand karma. You can’t really alienate the real people who give their time to create shit for free and expect your product to last. They will reap what they sowed.