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Has the Reddit boycott lead to any result?
There were calls for boycotts, people who'd never use it again, lots of hot threads in HN.
But a few months passed and it seems the Reddit admins had their ways and none of the demands were met. Was there even a change in traffic or did Reddit only need to wait out for the end of the drama and get back to business as usual?
I personally stopped using it, as I spent too much time on it anyway. Maybe other HN users did it too, but that may not reflect the habits of the majority of reddit audience.
- PaulHoule 3y agoSites like Tildes (I've got invites) and Kbin and Lemmy got a lot of growth out of it. Of course a 1% loss to Reddit is a 200% gain to a little site.
- tornato7 3y agoI would browse Reddit on Apollo for hours every day, and now I've stopped using Reddit save for occasional search results (in which case I'm sure to use old.reddit). For me that's a pretty big result!
- runjake 3y agoI rarely visit Reddit anymore. But that's more about Reddit dooming third-party clients than the boycott. Does that count?
- wifipunk 3y agoReddit did more to deter their users on their own than the boycott did. I was a big supporter and regular user for reddit 10 years ago, but it slowly devolved from where discussions happened first to being fully reactionary/reposted content. I can't remember the last time I found out about something because of reddit. Mixed with them killing off reddit coins yesterday I say good riddance. I'd rather be on hn
- Jemaclus 3y agoIndividually? I use Reddit less than ever. For context, I was an avid Apollo user. I still check it occasionally, but much less than I used to. Several of the smaller subreddits that I used to frequent have effectively died and moved to other places (Discord, mostly), and so I lament the loss of those. Large-scale, though? Probably no result at all.
- leke 3y agoI can't speak for everyone, but I handed my sub over to someone who agreed to take over it, and I stopped using it altogether. I don't know what has become of the sub, but I really don't miss using Reddit.
- jakabia 3y agoI still use Reddit, but not their official app, no way. I subscribed for Infinity, I like it so I use it