I was looking at reddit today, and the front-page felt like nothing happened. I scrolled and scrolled and scrolled and clicked into comments. Everything is popping off buzzing with activity. All the subreddits I was subscribed to that went dark are now back up and business as usual.

I knew we were a minority, but I didn’t expect this level of apathy. It feels like Spez was 100% right and this did in fact blow over. What’s your take on it it? I didn’t expect Reddit to immediately be a failure, but man I guess I expected a bigger impact than that.

  • sdothum@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    i would not have found this federated alternative if not for the protest.

    i, for one, am glad to not have to put up with the ever increasing ads, the constant “install reddit app” popup, the crappy “new” interface (vs the “old”… which i continued to use)…

    Remains to be seen how the post June 30 impact to mobile apps and the mod community shapes up. But the drive to further monetize the platform for the IPO is the writing on the wall afaiac.

    Yes, the federated user base is still in its infancy… but quality over quantity :)