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Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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post #10

Personally I moved to lemmy and hackernews and stopped using reddit because the apps stopped working.

I generally don’t use apps for things that have a decent website. Reddit was still in that category.

But after they started doing stupid stuff I also moved to Lemmy, and haven’t looked back.

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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post #7

My 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.

+1. I’m grateful because I knew it was in my mental health’s best interest to stop endlessly scrolling /r/all, but I needed a push.

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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post #4

Depends 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.

> feels a bit more quiet than it used to for me.

The site as a whole feels a bit less active - i.e. not as active as it used to be.

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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post #4

Depends 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.

> feels a bit more quiet than it used to for me. The site as a whole feels a bit less active - i.e. not as active as it used to be.

And what activity there is, is tepid and bland, the same low effort crap you'd see on Facebook or YouTube comments

The soul is dead, the body is alive

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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post #4

Depends 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.

iirc there was a report in the Verge that overall content quality has fallen. r/all has mostly short trending tiktok video, earlier it used to be niche interesting topic, you wouldn't find anywhere else.

I started using tildes.net which is invite only interesting community.

https://tildes.net/register?code=QF8KC-GAWKJ-K6WQ6

https://tildes.net/register?code=F67V6-483W1-ADFS0

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Some 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?

Nah. A lot of power users are gone. Now it will slowly slide into irrelevance.
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