As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal
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This is a very short-sighted way of looking at things. The real crunch will come on June 30th when the third party apps stop working. That will cause many people to switch away from Reddit or at least reduce their usage. Also, the current shenaigans will have a long term negative effect on the quality of moderation and thus the quality of content. And people will think twice about putting a lot of effort into producing content. They've been on a downward slope in this regard for a long time but this will only accelerate it.
I'd like to think this is true, but I think it remains to be seen. It may end up being that most users end up deciding to just accept the new normal and reddit pretty much weathers this storm without enough blowback to make a difference.
That is a possibility. I hope it'll turn out differently. But basically I'm done with Reddit. My main hope is that kbin/lemmy become viable alternatives.
Several communities have been effectively nuked by the mods changing rules and/or setting the subs to NSFW (with actual NSFW following that move).
Unless Reddit rolls them back to what they were 2-3 weeks ago (which might be a possibility), I'm not sure if there's any going back.
Yep, I agree. It'll be a slow decline, but I think we'll see one. It's kind of like a boss being hit by a bunch of DOT's. Seems fine at first, won't keel over right away, but as time passes, the amount of health loss will get more and more catastrophic until it becomes overwhelming.