On one hand I’m glad the blackouts made a noticeable dent and moved reddit (the site) into a response of some sort.
On the other hand, reddit (the site) is not going to back down because they already revealed their hand and they’re motivated by $$$ which is a strong-ass motivator.
On the third hand, the majority of reddit (the users) are back and still using it, which proves that reddit (the site) was correct in staying on their course. Those users now have a negative outlook on both the corporate leadership AND the mods that run the subreddits, yet they still log in, contributing to the wealth of discussion and information stored in that place.
I am whelmed.
Not everyone is back. See I’m here.
at some point it’ll be worth investigating what the “real” cost (inasmuch as this can be determined) for the blackout was to the IPO, and whether the fees Reddit makes of API access makes up for it.
My reddit average daily traffic dropped 100% 😀
Hopefully there’s another wave of power users moving to Lemmy/Kbin after the 30th.
For me it’s simple: no sync, no reddit.
I’m never going to use their app.
Same. Plus not many people here yet so I got a sweet username.
Of course, if you wanted a name that was always taken you could just join another federated site. For example, you’re FloridaMan@kbin.social but there could also be a FloridaMan@lemmy.world, etc.
It’s a good bet. Breaking habits is hard, but removing some people’s preferred way of using Reddit forces them to go cold turkey. It’s a great opportunity for all the alternatives.
I’m not missing Reddit as much as I thought I would, however I do miss Apollo
I am still on a blackout. And I canceled my paid Reddit account.
You can pay for Reddit?
Yes, you can, mainly for going ad-free. And if Reddit had simply given every subscriber a private API key for their account and let the 3rd party apps use user-supplied API keys, Reddit would have probably actually made more money without getting any serious API-related blowback.
“According to data provided to Engadget by internet analytics firm Similarweb, the impact was small but noticeable. On the day before the blackout began on June 12th, Similarweb logged more than 57 million daily visits to Reddit across desktop and mobile web clients. By the end of the first day of the protest, daily visits were below 55 million. Then, at the end of June 13th, Similarweb recorded fewer than 52 million daily visits to Reddit. Compared to the website’s average daily volume over the past month, the 52,121,649 visits Reddit saw on June 13th represented a 6.6 percent drop.
Over that same time period, Similarweb recorded a more dramatic decrease in the amount of time Reddit users were spending on the platform. The day before the protest began, an average session on the website was about eight minutes and 31 seconds long. A day later, that metric fell to seven minutes and 17 seconds, or the lowest that stat has been in the past three years. Reddit did not immediately respond to Engadget’s comment request.”
Guess that’s why spez was on such a media blitz the last few days.
General rule of thumb, the more a CEO desperately screams WE ARENT LOSING MONEY I PROMISE, the higher the chance that they’re losing a metric shitton of money
Haha an average session on the website was about eight and a half minutes. Must be alot of folks that come to see one post and leave to average out those of us that are terminally online.
i think the average user just scrolls it on the loo
Yes. Average users = people shitting. Power users = office workers avoiding work. So mote it be.
