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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 to also be the people who don’t really care about values.
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.
It depends on what percentage of power users/content creators/OPs are in that 10%. Most online communities have a pretty lopsided composition of posters vs. lurkers. If all posters move, the community will be eaten from the inside-out by repost bots.
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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It isn’t the 1st of July yet…
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I was an active member of reddit for over a decade. That ended during the blackout and I refuse to go back. I have blocked reddit at the router level to ensure they see no traffic from my network
I had 11 years there. I do miss the interface and pure volume of content (235 subs as of a week ago), but I’m enjoying the conversations here which is the part that meant the most to me. I hate to see it go, but the fact is their app is shit and I use mobile, so when RiF goes im out.
I went on Reddit yesterday for the first time since the strike, whilst trying to debug a code issue. Almost every post from years old questions had the replies deleted by the users. I think the real damage will be the deletion of content and the change in tone from redditors. Most useful discourse will be gone and it will turn into a place only for arguing, memes and shit posting. Advertisers aren’t going to want to pay to advertise on low quality content like that.
I truly feel most of the 3rd party app users were the more level headed folks in the userbse. For the most part we were users there since before reddit had an app when good discourse took place. We’re taking that discourse with us and I anticipate further deterioration of reddit. More akin to Facebook style toxicity and echo chambering. I’m sad to see it because overall that’s a net loss for humanity/the internet. But I like it here.
I’ve cut out Reddit, if lemmy dies my social media use dies with it.
I’ll be here contributing to the community as long as everyone else is.
I’ve found my alternative. But the last few days and those going forward I’ve went back to using the shit out of Apollo like I used to because I know it’s about to die. Reddit is going to die on July 1.
I’m curious if this type of usage of Reddit via 3rd party apps is captured in these metrics, or if it only looks at Reddit website and the app traffic
Once Apollo is inactive, so am I.
I’ve been here 50% or more. Won’t be hard, lol. Idiots
Ill admit its taking a hot minute to get setup on Lemmy, find communities and such. But Im enjoying it.
Yup, once boost is dead I’ll be over here on lemmy full time.
Maybe it’s the novelty here or something but I’m really enjoying Lemmy overall. Agreed switching over completely won’t be difficult in the slightest
There’s less comments, but also no low-effort jokes at the top for karma.
This is 100% what I love about the switch. It’s not spammed with reposts and bots karma farming.
The change will take some time.
I’m more curious about how the numbers will look after they nix 3rd party apps. There’s bound to be a dip after June 30.
Are there a significant number of users using third party apps? Would be interesting to see.
Last I saw they account for something around 10 000 0000 users. But that number is dwarfed by the official app.
Yes, but many of the “power users” (ie, not lurkers who downloaded the official app because its the "official app) are the ones making content which drives enagement who are using 3rd party apps, as well as the majority of mods AFAIK.
All we can do now is speculate until the price of API access pushes our 3rd party apps in July.
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Yeah where is this data coming from?
Ribbits
I continued to look reddit for reasons, but honestly the feed is deteriorating fast, maybe traffic is back, people posting content, not so much, engagement? Even less, it’s like looking to a old mediocre Google News feed.
Yeah, I at least personally used to be a bit of a power user and have just stopped posting/upvoting/downvoting altogether, and I’m not even a mod.
Just because people show up does not mean people are engaged.
Engagement is up because an algorithm optimized it.
The algorithm does not care if that engagement is negative or toxic.
Fine with me, found a good substitution here after 11 years of reddit
It’s going to dip again when third party apps are shut off. Personally I’m still browsing Reddit to check in on the drama on /r/ModCoord
dunno, but third party usage were never that high IIRC. that’s why them targeting third party apps is a weird decision
Apollo has 25m downloads, I can’t imagine that the various Android 3rd party apps are any lower than that in total, if not individually.
Officially they make up a small amount of traffic, but amongst power users who both create and comment significantly is much more commonly done through 3rd party apps.
When Apollo stops working, I will only be accessing Reddit via old.reddit.com
I refuse to use that shitshow of an ad riddled official app.
You should access Reddit only via a mirror as you wouldn’t want to contribute there anyway.
You should use Teddit, I’m using it as a mirror to wrangle in RSS feeds of sub’s. That way Reddit doesn’t get your traffic directly
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