Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting...
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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In my opinion even if he changes his mind and tries to backtrack, the damage is done, for sure.
Yeah. There's no backtracking now. The reputation is tainted.
What he didn't bank on is a lot of power users were already getting sick of wading through ads and dealing with mass idiocy. I mean, mass idiocy will move with the masses, you can't really get away from it. But add a power-hungry megalomaniac to the mix of an already irritated user base, and it's not pretty. Frankly, Reddit can keep the kind of users who are willing to stay there. Hopefully that will keep other communities cleaner.
For us that are making the switch. Unfortunately too many fishes these days.
Reddit has been crappy for years now, and a lot of people have wanted to leave but didn't have anywhere to go. Now that there's somewhere else, people will continue to trickle out as they get tired of it. It doesn't need to all happen at once -- in fact, reddit doesn't need to shut down. It just needs viable alternatives with a critical community mass, and we're there now.
Exactly. The explosion of users in the last week, caused by them, has cemented that. It will get exponentially worse come July 1st.
And, just thing- give it a few months (and a lot more contributors / developers...) and this platform can become REAL competition for reddit.
As I see it currently though, there are a lot of unresolved issues before it becomes more mainstream. But, hey, I have posted here almost exclusively today, other then telling a few redditors about lemmy,.
There's a private subreddit I'm a member of that I'll probably stick around for a while on. It's one where they kick people out if they don't participate for a week, so I'll have an interesting sample of how many active redditors are leaving.