The main problem with the protest is that there’s no viable Reddit replacement. Back during the Digg fiasco, it was easy for everyone to jump ship to Reddit.
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#12It seems to me like this is turning into a subreddit migration in slow motion. A lot people still want to post content and a lot of people still want to read content, so what's happening is people are posting it to the less popular 'alternative' versions of the popular subreddits and those posts make the frontpage instead. It seems like there is a noticeable decline in quality but i'm still seeing quite a bit of posting. Not sure if it's having the intended impact or not. I think the missing thing here is a viable, popular alternative. Digg died because reddit existed. If there was a consensus on the next reddit I would think reddit should be much more worried.
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#13"Let's use Reddit to promote boycotting Reddit!"
Why is that a bad idea again?
Other people’s opinions are surely different than mine but… I think the subs that have gone dark actually made Reddit better.
It’s all the popular subs, and that’s the really low effort, frankly, basic bitch comments.
For me, in protesting they’ve improved it.
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This AMA happened 27 days ago…
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#15IMHO, Reddit's charging such a high price for API access that it's as good as unattainable is more of a last straw then anything else. Reddit has been clear that they view the data as their sole property, when you think it through, why be a moderator for a for-profit company if you aren't being paid?
I don't know why it took this long for moderators to quit.
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#16The main problem with the protest is that there’s no viable Reddit replacement. Back during the Digg fiasco, it was easy for everyone to jump ship to Reddit.
This is the root of the problem.
Large communities can't meaningfully migrate off it.
Small communities shouldn't migrate off it. (As they will lose discoverability.)
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I suspect the set of power users that insisted on using Apollo overlaps quite a bit with the moderator population.
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#19The biggest Reddit communities are in open rebellion. Twitter is, charitably, a mess. Twitch started taking a full 50% of the revenue of their top creators, who are furious.
What's going on? What's the bigger trend that's causing all these platforms to go so user-hostile?
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#20It seems to me like this is turning into a subreddit migration in slow motion. A lot people still want to post content and a lot of people still want to read content, so what's happening is people are posting it to the less popular 'alternative' versions of the popular subreddits and those posts make the frontpage instead. It seems like there is a noticeable decline in quality but i'm still seeing quite a bit of post…
I think HN is experiencing a lot more traffic too