I couldn't find any info but what was the end result of the blackouts?
Did reddit agree or compromise, or did the movement run out of steam? Just curious if anyone knows..
Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
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Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#2Some Reddit communities fled to other platforms such as Lemmy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(social_network)
Many subreddit moderators protested in various ways and were removed and replaced.
Reddit never agreed or compromised and for the most part the movement seems to have run out of steam.
Maybe if Reddit squeezes more, more users will go to Lemmy and similar alternative platforms?
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#3Had as much impact as a fart in a hurricane.
May a bit more: there were a few news stories about it, so it wasn't totally silent; but I kinda doubt the people it was meant to impact were at all distressed.
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#4Depends on the community. Some subreddits I used to go to migrated off the platform or closed down entirely, but many others just reopened with new staff and proceeded as usual. Not sure if activity was affected sitewide, though it feels a bit more quiet than it used to for me.
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#5Had as much impact as a fart in a hurricane. May a bit more: there were a few news stories about it, so it wasn't totally silent; but I kinda doubt the people it was meant to impact were at all distressed.
I disagree, it was impactful. More than a fart. What we have to look at is the impact though, not some specific objective that was impossible anyway (ie killing Reddit).
The impact was massive attention to alternatives. Tons of traffic testing on said alternatives. Tons of press to activity pub, etc etc.
It’s just like Mastodon. Every exodus was big for mastodon and activity pub. It gained traffic, interest, devs and users. Did it kill twitter? Of course not, but only fools thought it was likely to.
Killing some massive social network is near impossible. But dismissing the twitter or Reddit drama as being irrelevant because they didn’t die is missing a lot of interesting development in the FOSS ecosystem imo.
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#7My outcome was the shutdown of Apollo, rather than the blackout. I no longer read Reddit on my phone. (Except for a link or two clicked from something else, but even then I go to `old.reddit` instead to read the comments). That was really where I wasted the most time on it.
It’s kind of a relief. I think I was too “lazy” to stop on my own because Apollo was so comfortable to use.
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#8Lots of communities died: they "moved" to other platforms but didn't meaningfully survive the move. Reddit's conduct didn't change.
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#10Personally I moved to lemmy and hackernews and stopped using reddit because the apps stopped working.