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Reddit's API protest just got even more NSFW (mashable.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 118 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Do not underestimate average people's resilience to enshittification

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  • [–] 34 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I just saw someone on one of my fb groups saying she's heard a lot about reddit lately and wanting to make an account and asking how it works.

    I tried to ward her off but the negative press just seems to be enticing new users.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    You can train mice or pigeons to hit a button for reward, but the button has to dispense reward pretty much 100%. Once they're trained, you can dial down the reward - 50%, 25%...1% - and they'll keep mashing that button, doing work for free. Human buttons and rewards may be more complicated, but it's the same thing.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's the mods leaving that are going to doom the site. The users will follow soon after

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Define “doom.” Reddit will lose its power users, its trendiness, and just become another forum for recycled content like 9gag or limp along like Digg or MySpace for years, but I don’t see it shutting down.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah, pretty much. The sad reality is that only the most outspoken will actually make a switch. The vast majority will simply accept it as the new norm, because they don’t care enough to bother with a new platform.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    for now. switches like this don't happen one day to the next. reddit has broken a lot of trust with its core users and put things in motion that cannot be stopped, at least without extraordinary action that they're clearly unwilling of. these processes will take years to play out but they're happening.

    same thing is going on with twitter. the easier mastodon becomes to use and the more twitter falls apart, the more the flow of users from one platform to the next will pick up the pace.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I fear this is true. 🤦

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  • [–] 47 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It doesn't matter, at this point. Lemmy is already a good-enough replacement for reddit, with better core principles, and it's just getting better.

    Get some popcorn and watch the drama, and expect nothing.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It's okay to expect more drama though, right?

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