Maybe I’m just cynical, but I feel like everyone cancelling is going to forget about this in a few months when the news cycle moves on and a new Star Wars show comes out or something.
Has a disorganized boycott like this ever worked? (honest question)
A lot of us are only here because we wanted to join a consumer action against Reddit. The first few months I was on Lemmy every post was about how Reddit users were fleeing in droves and we were going to show those big bad corporate clowns over at Reddit not to mess with us and Reddit would collapse within weeks.
Welp. Reddit is doing just fine, so yeah, color me cynical as well. I like it better here though.
Reddit is a wasteland where every informative post is now marked as DELETED by those of us who torched our donated content as we left. It’s full of garbage posts now, and mods who don’t care.
Do they still manage to attract ad revenue, sure, so does X after Musk turned it into a fascist turd bath. Is it as valuable as it used to be? Not by a longshot.
Oh, yes, I 100% agree with this. I’m shocked and horrified every time I get curious enough to poke my head back in there and see how it’s going. Yeah, I only meant they are doing fine in terms of weathering the boycott efforts financially. The Reddit I knew and loved is long gone.
I agree and I thought more people would be frustrated enough to leave Reddit. But there are enough of us here now that there is an alternative to Reddit that is viable. Hopefully that becomes common knowledge and they realize leaving Reddit doesn’t mean not having a community, so they feel encouraged to switch.
I second this. From experience, I noticed more hyper local subs on Reddit are very active, but the more larger general subs seem to endlessly repost old content or share exaggerated titles/content. I do wish there were more of a local presence on Lemmy, not everyone wants to go to Reddit or Facebook Groups for that.
Maybe I’m just cynical, but I feel like everyone cancelling is going to forget about this in a few months when the news cycle moves on and a new Star Wars show comes out or something.
Has a disorganized boycott like this ever worked? (honest question)
A lot of us are only here because we wanted to join a consumer action against Reddit. The first few months I was on Lemmy every post was about how Reddit users were fleeing in droves and we were going to show those big bad corporate clowns over at Reddit not to mess with us and Reddit would collapse within weeks.
Welp. Reddit is doing just fine, so yeah, color me cynical as well. I like it better here though.
Reddit is a wasteland where every informative post is now marked as DELETED by those of us who torched our donated content as we left. It’s full of garbage posts now, and mods who don’t care.
Do they still manage to attract ad revenue, sure, so does X after Musk turned it into a fascist turd bath. Is it as valuable as it used to be? Not by a longshot.
Oh, yes, I 100% agree with this. I’m shocked and horrified every time I get curious enough to poke my head back in there and see how it’s going. Yeah, I only meant they are doing fine in terms of weathering the boycott efforts financially. The Reddit I knew and loved is long gone.
I agree and I thought more people would be frustrated enough to leave Reddit. But there are enough of us here now that there is an alternative to Reddit that is viable. Hopefully that becomes common knowledge and they realize leaving Reddit doesn’t mean not having a community, so they feel encouraged to switch.
I second this. From experience, I noticed more hyper local subs on Reddit are very active, but the more larger general subs seem to endlessly repost old content or share exaggerated titles/content. I do wish there were more of a local presence on Lemmy, not everyone wants to go to Reddit or Facebook Groups for that.
No, these boycotts have never worked.