How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though?
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1190537
How is reddit post protest, did it really win over protesters? Did the ones who left make a dent? Or like all things before, did it ultimately do nothing?
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That's not important, we've already moved here
An incredibly insignificant amount of users migrated over, yes. Protest failed and got decimated. Reddit won. That's all there is to it.
Migrations take time, it was never going to be a flick of a switch. Reddit content will slowly get worse and worse, and Lemmy content (or some other competitor) will get better and better as more people move. it’s those core users that generate great discussion that matter the most and those people are looking for somewhere else.
Don't have to be the biggest -just the most fun.
Bigness and funness are related in the case of social media, though. Reddit's size means that it can support a lot of niche subreddits that cater to very small slivers of their userbase. Some of those niche groups have been replicated in the Fediverse but they're mostly dead still - there aren't enough people here to actually generate the content and conversation needed.
The users who left were often likely to be the most dedicated (which is why they were the most butt hurt). This is only the beginning and the exodus will continue and the content will decline, although I don't know why I'm even telling you this since you're probably a spezbot.
Reddit: we are going to make our site objectively worse for everyone
Everyone: fuck you reddit, we will stop using reddit in protest
Reddit: ok
Everyone: Oh... Wait... So like I actually have to stop using reddit?
Reddit: ...
Everyone: Fine, we'll come back but I am fake mad about it!
Nobody pushes over the coke machine first try. You gotta keep rocking it.
yeah but… who cares? we all won: there doesn’t need to be winners and losers
Insignificant? Putting aside the issue that it’s not the number that counts but the content the new lemmings create and the number of post shoot up by a million, I don’t have the numbers but we put a heavy pressure on Lemmy’s instances.