How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though?
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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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Their traffic went down 3% so not really
How much of those 3% are comprised of the 1% who are active posters and the 10% who contribute commenting instead of the ~90% lurkers?
I'm willing to bet more than 20% of the people who left Reddit are frequent contributors instead of lurkers. Those are the users that drive traffic in the long run.
I was definitely a Reddit power user. To the point that people who wanted to dig at me thought "look at all the time you spend on Reddit" would insult me for some reason. They lost me last week and I don't plan on coming back. I pinned a "Reddit sucks, come to Lemmy" post on my profile and logged out.
I won't say that I was keeping any decently-large subreddits alive singlehandedly, I didn't have that ability or power, but I was definitely a major contributor.
Yup, that's the point. Most of the people who moved away from Reddit are the people who spent the most time there interacting and contributing to content, and those are the most affected by Huffman's crap. (edit) Most of the people who remained are lurkers, and if a platform only has lurkers, then who's producing the content? It's obviously an hyperbole, but it skews the userbase even more towards having more lurkers than posters, and it sets a trend.(/edit)
To be honest, I didn't even use any 3rd party Reddit apps (even though I was a serial commenter on things I had interest) before coming to Lemmy at the beginning of the protests. I only did so out of my own "moral" choice and because I'm a FOSS enthusiast.
Who cares. Reddit isn't cool anymore. We've moved on.
Web traffic, not total traffic, and only for the month of June