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The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.::Reddit corporate claims victory over its disgruntled mods as r/aww, r/pics, and r/videos abandon the "John Oliver rule."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well yeah because all the people who cared moved to Lemmy or kbin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is like Bush's mission accomplished. Too early to tell. Thanks to that though I found this nice community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The victor is not victorius if the vanquished does not consider themselves so

Never stop fighting, we will win!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why fight when you can just delete your account and be done with it? :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just a matter of time till majority of its users realise how easy it is to migrate to lemmy and how greedy and evil reddit has become.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dead to me 💁‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No they did not win. People just expect people to move out from an historic platform overnight. This just doesn't happen like that. Like Twitter, they'll be small events that will make users want to find alternatives and migrate here.

That crisis made Lemmy way more populated, just for that we won in a way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So, the API prices will go back to normal? Because if not, that's not a win.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree that reddit won but it was a, pyrrhic victory the content quality has massively gone down. I still have a secondary account there but I only use it to spread the word about lemmy. Haven't used it in weeks because I don't want to attract too much attention and get suspended.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No surprise here, just like Bernie Sanders, Mueller, and everything else, le reddit blindly overestimated what was going to happen. I'm willing to bet less than 10% of reddit even knows there were other apps, they just want cat pics and reposted tiktoks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If Reddit won, why are we here?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

A shadow of its former self but they managed to clear out the troublemakers

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sadly, Reddit has won. Their traffic is higher now than before the API protests. It seems like the saying "All publicity is good publicity was true in this case. While one can appreciate a minimal downtrend in Twitter interest (as expected), Reddit interest is growing and even more after the protests. Google trends:

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