Well yeah because all the people who cared moved to Lemmy or kbin
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This is like Bush's mission accomplished. Too early to tell. Thanks to that though I found this nice community.
The victor is not victorius if the vanquished does not consider themselves so
Never stop fighting, we will win!
Why fight when you can just delete your account and be done with it? :)
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.
Dead to me 💁♂️
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
So, the API prices will go back to normal? Because if not, that's not a win.
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.
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.
If Reddit won, why are we here?
A shadow of its former self but they managed to clear out the troublemakers
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: