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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?
#252It was complete submission lmao
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of my favorite conspiracies is that reddit is mostly just LLM's and paid agents talking to eachother. Employed by various intel agencies, governments, and reddit themselves trying to astroturf and sway conversation in one direction or another.
While this is absurdly conspiratorial, there is a grain of truth to it: early on in Reddit's history, the admins created fake accounts and posted on them to boost engagement[0]. More recently, after the blackout and user exodus, /r/de noticed a bunch of new German-language copies of popular English-language subs being created with a bunch of autotranslated comments[1]. So Reddit's administration is not above creating…
They specifically reposed users content from other platforms then pinged them that it was being discussed on reddit. It's what caused me to use reddit for the first time.
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#254Nothing. As the CEO predicted it fizzled out. The 3rd party apps died or asked for ridiculous amounts just to use the app. My Reddit usage dropped significantly but I guess I am not their target anymore. As any drama starts and ends on Reddit, this will be forgotten very soon.
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#255Some subreddits such as r/malefashionadvice did achieve the critical mass required to fully migrate to another platform. In that case, the moderators never re-opened and were replaced by scabs by the admins. But the sub remained fully dead. The userbase had moved to a discord server, which is well run and has plenty of users in the 50+ age bracket not normally associated with the platform.
Where did they go?
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#256my guess: mission accomplished from reddit's perspective. they lost more than they did during the ellen pao blackout but gained enough users to make up the difference, have more paid subscribers than they did previously and are probably saving a ton of money from all of the API traffic from the 3p clients that were kicked out. lemmy is more popular than voat.co (shut down in 2020) but still far from a reddit alternat…
>ellen pao blackout those were some innocent times
They were. Similarly Unidan's crow stuff. I miss those days of reddit.
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#257Absolutely nothing came from it. Except for the fact that the best Reddit client and arguably one of the best iOS apps of all time disappeared off the face of the earth.
For some reason, Apollo's creator declined to turn Apollo into a new Reddit. He could've tried at least.
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#258My 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.
Same, Reddit saved me from it by cutting my 3rd-party app cord.
It's just bizarre to me that they didn't try to buy one of these apps to replace their own. That would've been a net win. It seems instead, as throughout their history, that their leadership is constantly trying to destroy it.
If they had external investors they'd be being hit with shareholder lawsuits constantly.
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't see that text either. I just did a quick "let's verify this data" check because it just doesn't match my experience. > If I had noticed that, I still would've needed one of the very clever people here to explain the significance. I don't know if that's sarcastic or serious or if that's some dig at me? What an odd comment.
A little bit of snark, not directed at you specifically. Several people now have pointed out either the red text at top, or that the numbers aren't an exact match, or both, without themselves bothering to read through this thread to see if those had already been discussed.
IIRC there was just one comment when I posted that (but others may have been posted in the 10 or 15 minutes it took me to write that), and I still feel my comment adds value, because "likely to be wrong" in the warning seems like a rather weak phrasing (can also mean it's correct!), as are some of the other "I think this may be wrong" comments I see here.
I also suspect that smaller subs are a more useful measure than these huge subs, because I'd expect them to die off much quicker than the huge ones with a lot of inertia.
That said, I understand it can be annoying having 16 people tell you you're wrong all in slightly different ways. It's the price of posting on the internet I'm afraid. But it was (and still is!) the top post on this thread, even though it's not just factually wrong, but spectacularly factually wrong – which is fine, everyone is wrong sometimes – but people do have the tendency to point that out. As long as it's not a pedantic point I don't think that's wrong even if there's a comment already, if you think you can make that point better.
Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
#260Absolutely nothing came from it. Except for the fact that the best Reddit client and arguably one of the best iOS apps of all time disappeared off the face of the earth.
For some reason, Apollo's creator declined to turn Apollo into a new Reddit. He could've tried at least.
I agree that he could have tried harder. For one, I’d have been willing to get my own API key and paid my own fees to use the app. Like part of onboarding could have been enter your API credentials. Not the most user friendly but better than nothing.