• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    From what I have seen, traffic is down 9-10% now, which is quite significant.

    https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/social-media-news/reddit-blackout/

    Also the world has found out there are alternatives, so if mobile apps stop working or cost money by July, we may see a similar drop again.

    What happens after that is hard to say. IMO reddit has steadily deteriorated compared to what it was 15 years ago. I miss the old reddit, what reddit is today I won’t miss.

    Reddit will probably survive, and that may be for the best for Lemmy too. As long as Lemmy stays sustainable, I think we are better off without most of the people who choose to stay with reddit. Because those are likely also the people who don’t really care about real values.

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      It depends what percentage of power users/content creators/OPs are in that 10%. Most online communities have a pretty lopsided compsition of posters vs. lurkers. If all posters move, the community will be eaten from the inside-out by repost bots.

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        I think the way reddit was going, quality content creators were already drowned out in many places.

        We have a few bots here already making posts, I’m not sure how good or bad they are, but I’d prefer a site without bots. Where things are posted, because someone actually found it relevant here.

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      Reddit will probably survive, and that may be for the best for Lemmy too.

      I never thought about that and that makes a lot of sense to keep the problematic users over there.