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Did the reddit hivemind do a 180 or are the people left behind just the people who don't care. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Prior to the protest reddit was in full support of the protest. Most polls on subs supported a shutdown. Now, seemingly every community cant understand why the protest was needed and they're calling it a mod power trip. There is a 3rd possibility. This is an unfounded conspiracy but reddit themselves could be manipulating scores.

See the NFL thread if you don't mind sending traffic

https://reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/14b11kh/were_just_here_so_we_dont_get_fined/

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Its a classic case of people having no fucking clue about scale, bias, the vocal majority and silent minority.

For every loud reddit dissident, there is 100 people who just heard about reddit and grabbed the official app from the store. They dont comment, they dont post, they dont give a shit. If reddit went down they wouldnt question it, they would just grab a 9gag app or something and continue on consuming content. They dont block ads, they dont get invested in net neutrality or anything else the EFF are involved in, they dont mod the UX, they dont dig into dodgy shit going on behind the scenes. They dont give a shit.
In other words, they are the perfect community for a corporate social media.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm interested to see what happens when the third party apps actually die. And old.reddit.com obviously

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I read somewhere that a shim was being developed to allow reddit apps to join a lemmy instance. Not sure how practical it would be, or how far off it is, but its an interesting idea. Would obviously need to be implemented by the original reddit app dev, or a forked version if open source.

I imagine at least a couple of developers will migrate over here. If they update their app to the fediverse, join in on other open source projects, or just leave the scene is yet to be seen though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If Sync ever did that, I would be over the moon. That app made browsing a genuine joy with how good the UI is and how customizable it is. I really hope the devs for the existing third party apps repurpose them or make a version for the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can't find the comment because the sub is private, but /u/ljdawson did actually say modifying Sync to work with lemmy was a possibility. I would be so happy if it ended up working out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I read somewhere that a shim was being developed to allow reddit apps to join a lemmy instance

I assume you're talking about this project?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Userbase here will explode, then continue to grow. Content and moderation quality on reddit will decrease week by week, but they will go on for a very long time anyway (see Digg)