Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they’ve been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving…

    • RavenFellBlade@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      The issue with that line of thinking is that it is either ignorant of or deliberately ignores the fact that Reddit actively undermines your ability to build community as you see fit. They don’t view subreddits as communities, they view them as commodities, and their users are unpaid content producers that they are happy to steamroll over the moment your “contributions” don’t exceed any impediments to monetization you may be causing.

      Reddit is no longer an actually communal space. It’s a virtual sweatshop for online content so Reddit Inc can monetize ads ads ads all over.

      • brianorca@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        That means we need to build the communities we want to see somewhere else, like here. Which is what that poster was saying. Don’t worry about what Reddit is doing, just build something new.

    • spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      You know I haven’t really thought of it that way. A huge problem with the way people are thinking is that we want to see the other side fail or be worse off. It doesn’t really have to be like that, we can just make what we have better.

      Although I gotta say, it is nice to have a service that your real life friends might use that you can discuss things with them. I find it kind of annoying sometimes that I have to explain everything that I use like the Fediverse or Matrix, or other services that I self host. But I guess that’s a price you gotta pay for freedom.

      • MrSlicer@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        At least it’s easy. The federation stuff isn’t super important. I understand it now, but that understanding hasn’t caused me to change or use lemmy differently.

    • Astroturfed@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      The people who don’t care how it works and just wanted it to be a doomscroll content feed for them are a ton of the ones who got mad about the protest and are still there. It’s noticably more repost bot content now. I decided to dip out cuz the content kept getting further and further from what I wanted to see anyway and then it was a sudden noticable decline.