How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
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Users were outraged, but Reddit mostly won.

How is reddit post protest, did it really win over protesters? Did the ones who left make a dent? Or like all things before, did it ultimately do nothing?

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
    571·
    1 year ago

    It’s still massive and wasn’t going to die over the period of a month. People are looking elsewhere but currently have no good alternatives. Lemmy/kbin is awesome, but still not ready for the entire Reddit community. We’ll get there eventually!

    • NonSecretAccount@lemmy.caEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      we’ll never get there if users keep gatekeeping

      I see many people arguing against improving the ux “its not that hard just learn it”

      even defederating meta is bad imo, I think people will be more likely to switch over to alternatives if thread is federated, but if we defederate it then everyone will just stay on threads. Defederating only hurts us, not meta

    • miket@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yep, it’s on us to help move the content and people over to Lemmy. People and search engine will continue to default to Reddit. Eventually so much content will be on Lemmy/Kbin that reddit becomes a thing of the past, hopefully.