Well the esp32 subreddit took a dive. The other subs I care about were pretty stoic and unaffected, basically, "duh, we are on their site." Some attempted half-hearted departures but the only successful separation I've seen is TheMotte, an offshoot of the slate star codex sub.
Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
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Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#202Reddit has a right and a need to figure out monetization. This was part of that effort and it was likely painful but Reddit is dead anyway if it never figures out monetization.
I didn't participate in the blackout. I felt the mods were wrong to take that approach.
I did go to bat for blind mods. They need better mod tools than they have.
That comment is here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36232441
Hopefully Reddit does figure out how to both foster attractive communities and make enough money.
I run a bunch of Reddits. One has 20k members and says "top 5 percent" and many have a few hundred and say "top 50 percent." There's a lot more to Reddit than the very big Reddits.
I think the relatively small number of very big Reddits get too much press. That's not all there is to Reddit and I hope they defy the expectations of people already pronouncing them "dead."
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#203I think people silently left, and now Reddit usage declined. I don't have the data to prove it - but from the quality of the content nowadays (for the little I have checked it out) is really bad. I personally tried to build an alternative back then [1] (open source [2]), but the problem even Reddit is facing now is acquiring more users and keeping high quality content. Last time I checked Lemmy, it wasn't doing good…
I'm one of those who simply left, though I don't know that deleting my account counts as "silently". My usage had already been on the decline at that point, so I just needed that last push to leave for good.
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#204The end result was a stalemate. Reddit did not change any of its policies. Enough of the people responsible for posting and managing content left the platform to cause a noticeable impact on it. Here's a fun thing to look at, https://subredditstats.com/ for any major subreddit, e.g.: https://subredditstats.com/r/worldnews https://subredditstats.com/r/explainlikeimfive https://subredditstats.com/r/videos All of the mo…
I'm not sure any platform can nosedive quite like slashdot. I'm not sure what the wreck looked like but the entire culture of slashdot and fresh meat seemed to disappear at some point.
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#205Depends 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
I heard about Tildes recently and sent them an email to request an invite but they never replied.
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#206I never was a huge Reddit user before, but I have noticed an increase in lower-quality reddit-style comments here on HN in the last year or so. Thankfully they usually get downvoted or are already dead. I might have to turn off showdead though.
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Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#207I suspect the big impact will still take a while to appear, which is that reddit alternatives seem more credible. People looking to set up a new community were often picking reddit by default without thinking about it.
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#208I've noticed there's a lot less activity in niche subreddits, but I felt like Reddit was in decline before the blackouts. It generally feels like Internet communities have become less interesting, or at least that's the case with the ones I'm exposed to.
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#209The end result was a stalemate. Reddit did not change any of its policies. Enough of the people responsible for posting and managing content left the platform to cause a noticeable impact on it. Here's a fun thing to look at, https://subredditstats.com/ for any major subreddit, e.g.: https://subredditstats.com/r/worldnews https://subredditstats.com/r/explainlikeimfive https://subredditstats.com/r/videos All of the mo…
It wasn't a "stalemate," Reddit got its way and the subreddits were reopened.
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
That data seems wrong. I don't use Reddit much, but I checked the data aginast some smaller subs I sometimes check, and according to those charts they have just a few comments per day, but I know for a fact that's wrong. It's wrong for all subs I checked. For example: https://subredditstats.com/r/thethickofit Just 3 comments for Nov 22, 8 for Nov 23. But how does that square with the existence of this thread from Nob…
I still have mod status on a large-ish (70k+) subreddit so I can view reddit's internal traffic statistics for it, and these estimates are definitely wrong. These stats claim the sub has had 10-20 comments per day in just the past month, so maybe 300-600 tops. In reality it's had 1200+ comments just in the past week alone and probably closer to 5000 for the month. And you can see the activity with your own eyes in ev…
is your sub growing?