Reddit Migration

Oh, look another article on how Reddit is fine. Must be fine, everyone stop protesting, it doesn't work. /s

Reddit is unprofitable with massive new expenses, no realistic plan on making a profit, apparently trying to pump for an upcoming IPO, being run by a CEO who seems fine to disrespect its lifeblood, the community, and thinks it's a good idea to emulate Elmo... what could go wrong?

Like these sorts of things with large momentum, they don't stop overnight but who can say the Reddit ship is on a good trajectory?

That said, I really like this insightful take:

https://kbin.social/m/reddit/p/528198/https-www-pcmag-com-news-as-reddit-crushes-protests-its-user-traffic-returns-to-normal-lol-we-re-all-great-and-powerful-piggies-aren-t-we#post-comment-934433

TL;DR - the protests worked, also expect to see a different headline once we reach June 30.

Well. With the CEO blatantly lying and just showing how little integrity he has whats stopping him from just hiring a bunch of cheap workers/bots. Or even just blatantly changing the numbers in the database? He can change the upvotes for any post with just a simple database update.

I'm going back to delete comments lol. I wonder how much is people doing that.

Anyway, this is just starting. Pissing on mods who do unpaid work isn't going to work. The next batch will wonder why they are doing it when we hear about how the CEO got rich on IPO on their backs.

Opening RIF is, unfortunately, a muscle memory for me. For these next 7 days when it's still open, I'll probably be on there on occasion, although the subs I'm subscribed to anymore are either closed, or they're ModCoord & SaveThirdPartyApp. I've unfollowed subs that re-opened, and frankly, I was never subscribed to much beyond specific communities I liked to begin with. The "statistically insignificant" millions of users on Apollo, RIF, etc. (last I counted RIF had 5 million downloads on the app store to Reddit's 100 million -- that 5 percent so talked about is not a small number.) My post histories are deleted, all my accounts but one are deleted, I'm now just there to see the end, and see the drama with my own eyes (and part of that, for me, is that I don't wholly trust what I don't see myself, either.)

That the daily traffic is at "normal" levels, to me, is interesting, because we're not in a "normal" news cycle right now. With Trump indictments, the sub implosion, a new Marvel show, new Final Fantasy games, a potential Biden impeachment, and reddit's implosion as a news story itself, Reddit ought to be booming right now, not "normal". That there are incredible surges of people in subreddits participating in reddit drama should be a warning sign, the way a Fogo De Chao ought to be worried when two dozen PETA people sit down at each table.

I guess, once the mobile clients stopp working we will see a decline

I’m only heading over there to see the drama unfold (for the lols, as they used to say) and promote alternatives, but once Apollo is gone, I will as well. The plan is to nuke my posts and delete my account.

All I know is I'm not there. So traffic must be at least traffic--

Do we have data on the Digg exodus back then? Did the traffic and time on site decline instantly or did it take a few weeks?