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The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next

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Re: The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next

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Post by avgDev »

anoonmoose wrote: post #22
king_magic wrote: post #8

I barely noticed the blackout. And pretty much every subreddit I use is back up and running. Blackout had next to zero impact in the short term, and I doubt it will have any lasting impact.

I mean...something like 70% of subs are private at this moment. I deleted my account before the API changes were announced but it's easy to see that most of the subs I used are still private. I'm trying to get a dedicated server running for a game I started playing and the Google searches I've been doing for answers on some of the settings all return a shitlaod of reddit results I can't access. Your experience is you…

Your experience is also my experience.

One should try googling anything with reddit.....most of results will be private.

Re: The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next

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Post by nineplay »

A few hard truths

- No alternative is going to show up which can host anywhere near the amount of traffic that reddit receives/received. That takes a lot more money than any new contender can drum up.

- reddit isn't going to decide it no longer wants to make a profit

- A lot of users are going to wander back over to post-blackout replacement subreddits

- A lot of communities are just going to disappear. It breaks my heart as a member of a sport-based subreddit, there's just no good substitute. If I were in charge of a sports league, I might be working on some sort of equivalent because for me personally a lot of the joy of watching a sport is sharing reactions with others. I can see my interest just fizzling out.

Re: The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next

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Post by sjckciodjcr »

CleanCoder wrote: post #29

Who owns the user-generated content? Would it be feasible to clone Reddit (the site) and populate it with content scraped directly from Reddit? One could potentially even claim the same username by verifying their ownership of it on Reddit. Of course it's not easy but a mass social migration might be more practical than mass segregation in hopes of something else to slowly gaining traction.

Reddit owns the content so you can’t do that.

Re: The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next

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Post by Semaphor »

ParetoOptimal wrote: post #20
brucethemoose2 wrote: post #3

> What happens next. Its going to slightly accelerate the migration of some communities to Discord... Which is awful, with how siloed and noisy Discord is. I hope I am wrong, and that a good alternative gains traction.

> Its going to slightly accelerate the migration of some communities to Discord I wish they'd at least try Discourse first. Discord is where knowledge goes to die.

I don't know, discord makes me hate life less than discourse.

Re: The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next

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Post by bhouston »

wmeredith wrote: post #30
brucethemoose2 wrote: post #3

> What happens next. Its going to slightly accelerate the migration of some communities to Discord... Which is awful, with how siloed and noisy Discord is. I hope I am wrong, and that a good alternative gains traction.

Discord will not replace Reddit. It's a chat client. I don't understand why people keep saying it's a replacement. It's not. I have tried!

It doesn't replace reddit, but Discord is serving community building needs. A lot of large successful projects do support via Discords.

I know it is incredibly inefficient with the same questions being asked and answered constantly, but it appears to be what we do now. But even with that downside, it creates more intimacy/connection instead between members. So it likely leads to more engagement, even if it is inefficient.

Re: The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next

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Post by aquova »

bhouston wrote: post #19

Countdown to when Reddit leadership does some drastic moves like (1) forcibly making some of the most popular private subs public again, (2) removing the mods who want to keep things private. This would effective take these communities under company control. This will create even more uproar as well though, but I think it is inevitable. Given the mess they have put themselves in, and their unwillingness to budge on t…

I agree. If the subreddits remain closed indefinitely, I think the only options are forceful removal of the holdout moderators for the largest subs, or, and this seems somewhat unlikely, a shake up at the company. I don't think it'll save the situation, but I could see the brass removing spez if that means it would all be over.

Re: The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next

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Post by azemetre »

soperj wrote: post #25
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #17

This is reminding me of when all the Vine power creators banded together and tried to make demands or they would "stop creating" and all it resulted in was Twitter deleting them and their entire website. Don't be surprised if Reddit starts taking some pretty drastic action here on the grounds that they're violating one of the site's oldest rules which is "don't break Reddit". Not saying it's good or bad, but just tha…

And Tiktok took that and made it a billion dollar business. Twitter sure showed them.

Just goes to show you that it doesn't matter how much of a lead or the millions you can pour into a blackhole, hubris luckily makes everyone an equal player.

Re: The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next

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Post by castlecrasher2 »

avgDev wrote: post #28

I'm done with reddit. My account is 12 years old with nearly 70k karma. I moderate a niche subreddit and have helped build a wealth of knowledge. I will most likely deploy and pay for hosting a forum for the users and then nuke the subreddit. This particular subreddit cannot just be replicated by anyone. Moderators are physicians, chemists and devs. We all worked for "free" for the greater good but I'm not going to c…

Subreddits like yours are the true loss here.

Re: The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next

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Post by slaymaker1907 »

bhouston wrote: post #19

Countdown to when Reddit leadership does some drastic moves like (1) forcibly making some of the most popular private subs public again, (2) removing the mods who want to keep things private. This would effective take these communities under company control. This will create even more uproar as well though, but I think it is inevitable. Given the mess they have put themselves in, and their unwillingness to budge on t…

I completely support Reddit doing this in some cases. Mods have no right to hold my city’s sub hostage indefinitely without consulting the community. If they don’t want to mod, that’s there right, but namesquatting is not. Not the city I live in now, but I imagine support would be about the same as r/NewOrleans for an indefinite blackout (non-existent).

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/comments/1491zmn/moving_...

Re: The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next

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Post by enumjorge »

avgDev wrote: post #28

I'm done with reddit. My account is 12 years old with nearly 70k karma. I moderate a niche subreddit and have helped build a wealth of knowledge. I will most likely deploy and pay for hosting a forum for the users and then nuke the subreddit. This particular subreddit cannot just be replicated by anyone. Moderators are physicians, chemists and devs. We all worked for "free" for the greater good but I'm not going to c…

What subreddit is that?
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