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Some Reddit communities fled to other platforms such as Lemmy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(social_network) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(social

Some Reddit communities fled to other platforms such as Lemmy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(social_network) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(social_network) Many subreddit moderators protested in various ways and were removed and replaced. Reddit never agreed or compromised and for the most part the movement seems to have run out of steam. Maybe if Reddit squeezes more, more users will go to Lemmy and similar alternative platforms?

johnnyanmac 3y ago
>Maybe if Reddit squeezes more, more users will go to Lemmy and similar alternative platforms? oh, no worries. We have at least two looming controversies for that upcoming. 1. the contributor program (AKA, get paid to post on reddit) that replaces Reddit Gold that was datamined: https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/reddit-will-start-paying-you-real-money-for-your-karma/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/reddit-will-start-paying-y... 2. the looming hostility towards NSFW content that will likely in the mid term (1-2 years) lead to reddit trying to cut off NSFW material. It's a matter of being prepared for the next drama instead of if it'll ever happen again.
x86x87 3y ago
Nah. A lot of power users are gone. Now it will slowly slide into irrelevance.
- jseliger 3y ago
  We'll see. Back in 2015 I wrote about how poor moderation and moderator incentives were problems, and yet since then Reddit has kept growing: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/16/the-moderator-problem-how-reddit-and-related-news-sites-decline/ https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/16/the-moderator-problem-how....
  - marginalia_nu 3y ago
    You can be both large and irrelevant. Facebook is perhaps the best example of this. Reddit feels headed in the same direction.
    - smrtinsert 3y ago
      Define irrelevant, because if it has eyeballs...
      - david927 3y ago
        If early adopters have moved elsewhere, and it's all late-majority, it will have the most eyeballs right before it dies out.
      - x86x87 3y ago
        Facebook has the eyeballs. I don't think it's relevant anymore
        dymk 3y ago
        What's the criteria for relevancy, if not "do people still use it"?
        x86x87 3y ago
        Are you innovating? Are you top of mind for people? Is your tech transforming people's lives? I use electricity every day. Is electricity relevant in most contexts for me? Nope. I drive a car every day. Is the type of car I drive relevant in any way? Nope.
        brewdad 3y ago
        Your life as you know it would disappear if electricity stopped flowing tomorrow. Facebook is no longer the trendsetter but it still influences the daily lives of millions of people and will probably, once again, have a major impact on who the United States next president is. Facebook is highly relevant.
        x86x87 3y ago
        Would your life as you know it disappear if Facebook disappeared tomorrow? Facebook is a cancer to our society. Luckily it looks like most people moved on an now it's a ghost town.
- powera 3y ago
  Many of the "power users" were outright liabilities for Reddit, and they should consider their departure a good thing.
  - realusername 3y ago
    I disagree, they had a lot power users creating the content and now it definitely dropped in quality.
  - x86x87 3y ago
    It depends. When your best content and the filtering of crap content comes from these power users you're in trouble when they leave.
- punkspider 3y ago
  Reddit's Google traffic is growing at this time. The only time it was higher was in March 2022, according to SEMrush. This is because Google is assigning more weight to user-generated content, since the rise of AI-generated content, and I believe traffic will keep growing.
- PurpleRamen 3y ago
  New power users will take their place. The platform is still big and fame. What we've seen is mainly a shift from old to new generation.
treyd 3y ago
I wrote an article [1] back in June about Lemmy and how reddit communities leaving should approach it but it seems like in practice it's been a lot more unstructured than I thought it should have been. Most users/boards are on lemmy.world. That's probably fine though, there are still some more niche boards. I just wish there was a better automatic cross-posting between parallel boards. Personally I have essentially not used reddit since June outside of following links there from searches. It was the thing that got me to make an HN account after being a passive reader for like 7 years. [1] https://tr3y.io/articles/tech/reddit.html https://tr3y.io/articles/tech/reddit.html
MegaDeKay 3y ago
Speaking of "other platforms", I know of a 3D printing sub that went over to Discord and they have no plans to ever go back. I wonder how many other subs headed over to Discord as well.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
  As much as I like Discord, I hate that people use it as a replacement for reddit. It's an entirely different medium that serves an entirely different purpose. Reddit is a message board. Discord is chat. A highly-active Discord is impossible to keep up with, whereas a highly active subreddit is still very useable. You can post a question on reddit, go to work, come home many hours later, and read the answers, and it's easy no matter how much traffic the sub gets. On Discord, if it's very active, you could find yourself scouring through hundreds of messages to see if someone replied to you and didn't use the Reply feature.
shitlord 3y ago
Lemmy.world has 143k users. For comparison, a now-banned snuff film subreddit made their own website, and it has over 1M users. Lemmy and similar platforms just aren't very appealing to the hordes of people who left reddit. Those users are getting their dopamine fix from somewhere else.

johnnyanmac 3y ago

>Maybe if Reddit squeezes more, more users will go to Lemmy and similar alternative platforms? oh, no worries. We have at least two looming controversies for that upcoming. 1. the contributor program (AKA, get paid to post on reddit) that replaces Reddit Gold that was datamined: https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/reddit-will-start-paying-you-real-money-for-your-karma/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/reddit-will-start-paying-y... 2. the looming hostility towards NSFW content that will likely in the mid term (1-2 years) lead to reddit trying to cut off NSFW material. It's a matter of being prepared for the next drama instead of if it'll ever happen again.

x86x87 3y ago

Nah. A lot of power users are gone. Now it will slowly slide into irrelevance.

jseliger 3y ago
We'll see. Back in 2015 I wrote about how poor moderation and moderator incentives were problems, and yet since then Reddit has kept growing: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/16/the-moderator-problem-how-reddit-and-related-news-sites-decline/ https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/16/the-moderator-problem-how....
- marginalia_nu 3y ago
  You can be both large and irrelevant. Facebook is perhaps the best example of this. Reddit feels headed in the same direction.
  - smrtinsert 3y ago
    Define irrelevant, because if it has eyeballs...
    - david927 3y ago
      If early adopters have moved elsewhere, and it's all late-majority, it will have the most eyeballs right before it dies out.
    - x86x87 3y ago
      Facebook has the eyeballs. I don't think it's relevant anymore
      - dymk 3y ago
        What's the criteria for relevancy, if not "do people still use it"?
        x86x87 3y ago
        Are you innovating? Are you top of mind for people? Is your tech transforming people's lives? I use electricity every day. Is electricity relevant in most contexts for me? Nope. I drive a car every day. Is the type of car I drive relevant in any way? Nope.
        brewdad 3y ago
        Your life as you know it would disappear if electricity stopped flowing tomorrow. Facebook is no longer the trendsetter but it still influences the daily lives of millions of people and will probably, once again, have a major impact on who the United States next president is. Facebook is highly relevant.
        x86x87 3y ago
        Would your life as you know it disappear if Facebook disappeared tomorrow? Facebook is a cancer to our society. Luckily it looks like most people moved on an now it's a ghost town.
powera 3y ago
Many of the "power users" were outright liabilities for Reddit, and they should consider their departure a good thing.
- realusername 3y ago
  I disagree, they had a lot power users creating the content and now it definitely dropped in quality.
- x86x87 3y ago
  It depends. When your best content and the filtering of crap content comes from these power users you're in trouble when they leave.
punkspider 3y ago
Reddit's Google traffic is growing at this time. The only time it was higher was in March 2022, according to SEMrush. This is because Google is assigning more weight to user-generated content, since the rise of AI-generated content, and I believe traffic will keep growing.
PurpleRamen 3y ago
New power users will take their place. The platform is still big and fame. What we've seen is mainly a shift from old to new generation.

treyd 3y ago

I wrote an article [1] back in June about Lemmy and how reddit communities leaving should approach it but it seems like in practice it's been a lot more unstructured than I thought it should have been. Most users/boards are on lemmy.world. That's probably fine though, there are still some more niche boards. I just wish there was a better automatic cross-posting between parallel boards. Personally I have essentially not used reddit since June outside of following links there from searches. It was the thing that got me to make an HN account after being a passive reader for like 7 years. [1] https://tr3y.io/articles/tech/reddit.html https://tr3y.io/articles/tech/reddit.html

MegaDeKay 3y ago

Speaking of "other platforms", I know of a 3D printing sub that went over to Discord and they have no plans to ever go back. I wonder how many other subs headed over to Discord as well.

Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
As much as I like Discord, I hate that people use it as a replacement for reddit. It's an entirely different medium that serves an entirely different purpose. Reddit is a message board. Discord is chat. A highly-active Discord is impossible to keep up with, whereas a highly active subreddit is still very useable. You can post a question on reddit, go to work, come home many hours later, and read the answers, and it's easy no matter how much traffic the sub gets. On Discord, if it's very active, you could find yourself scouring through hundreds of messages to see if someone replied to you and didn't use the Reply feature.

shitlord 3y ago

Lemmy.world has 143k users. For comparison, a now-banned snuff film subreddit made their own website, and it has over 1M users. Lemmy and similar platforms just aren't very appealing to the hordes of people who left reddit. Those users are getting their dopamine fix from somewhere else.