Now that the two day shutting down of many thousands of subreddits is over, what is happening now? How many are remaining closed? Are others just going back to normal? What is the prospects of any significant change happening now?

I’ve set my pihole to reject reddit.com and I’m committed to using Lemmy, but I do miss the old Reddit.

  • @Katt@lemmy.world
    36•1 year ago

    You may not like my answer but here goes: Time will tell.

    Those who have jumped ship indefinitely will build a community here in the Fediverse. Those who miss Reddit too much will return there and use the official app.

    By staying you are building something new. It may not be Reddit, and it may never be Reddit. But there are still millions of users who are here to stay and will become a community.

    I hope it will not become a “they” vs “us” thing. Both platforms can exist peacefully, the same way Facebook and Twitter coexist.

    Perhaps a difference in content style or format will appear in time, which will make people choose one platform over the other. But that’s not bad. Competition is healthy.

    I’m staying, and I’m curious to see where Lemmy is going. All I can do is contribute to making it a place I want to hang out in.

    • Aviandelight
      9•1 year ago

      Regardless of who stays and who goes back I fully expect we will see sharing of content with reddit here just like we saw content from Twitter and TikTok over there. I’m not worried in the slightest about “missing” something.

    • @lynny@lemmy.world
      8•1 year ago

      Hate to be that person, but the lemmyverse has about 160k people as of this morning. If you include Mastodon it’s millions, but they aren’t likely to interact as much with lemmy users.

          • @CaptManiac@lemmy.worldOP
            4•1 year ago

            I’m sure I have misremembered. No one’s near the 100k number.

            I think it’s interesting that despite lemmy.world having less users than lemmy.ml it has way more active users. Something to do with improved stability?

  • zero_iq
    32•1 year ago

    The more time I spend on lemmy, the less I’m missing reddit.

    Lemmy feels fresher, more positive, and faster. It’s a bit rough around the edges, but things will only improve, and there seems to be a large number of people willing to get involved and help out.

    Even if the current blackout amounted to nothing, at least Lemmy has had a boost in users and engagement. Lemmy and the fediverse will learn lessons, improve, and fix bugs, and will be here for the next time reddit fucks up, and gain even more users.

    I think I’ll be staying regardless, reddit has been pissing me off for the last couple of years. It was mainly the lack of a viable alternative that kept me there.

    Sp*z has fucked up badly this time. And he will continue to fuck up.

    • @can@sh.itjust.works
      4•1 year ago

      Exactly, the reddit addiction is hard to break but lemmy slides right into that craving nicely.

      And this is just the beginning.

    • @jimmyjazx
      5•1 year ago

      RIF was reddit to me so as it goes, i go. This app I’m using, Jerboa for lemmy, is pretty good

      • MentalEdge
        3•1 year ago

        And it will only get better, let’s hope. I’m hoping at least one of the third party reddit app devs jumps onto making a lemmy apps, or contribute to Jerboa repo.

        For now I still have lot of peeves with Jerboa, but it’s very new, turns out. There was Lemur before, but its been abandoned.

      • VitaMan
        1•1 year ago

        I like the layout of Jerboa, but there doesn’t seem to be much new content, hopefully that changes soon.

  • @baleygr@beehaw.org
    13•1 year ago

    Read an interesting idea today. Let subs become unmoderated free for all so chaos would reign. Not gonna lie, I’d like to see what it would become hahaha.

    • jorgeEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      AnarchyChess considered very seriously doing exactly that

      • @Obi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        They did do it but then something something admins stepped in something something mod was forced to do some things (can’t remember the details).

  • @boo@lemmy.world
    12•1 year ago

    You can use https://reddark.untone.uk/ to check which subs are still private. This morning it has been showing live notifications as many go public again. There are still some subs that are set to private or restricted.

    • fraser
      5•1 year ago

      Good to see my two home subs of r/Fantasy and r/SquaredCircle still private.

  • @Asifall@lemmy.world
    4•1 year ago

    I mean I’m trying to stop using Reddit in general because it pisses me off, but IMO the individual users protesting is unlikely to change anything. The real test will be how many mods stay and continue to work well once the change goes into effect.

    • Billiam
      2•1 year ago

      I think the real litmus will be on July 1, when all the 3pa shut down for good. That’s when it’ll be apparent who is willing to put up with Reddit, and who won’t.

      Also fuck the greedy little pigboy, spez.

  • @KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world
    2•1 year ago

    I’m still using Boost until that app dies at least. It seems as though some of the protesting subs are coming back, some are doubling down. Every non-participating sub seems to be doing fine, although the upvote and comment numbers do seem lower than usual. The result is still kinda up in the air it seems.

  • f1g4
    1•1 year ago

    Nothing really. Reddit will go on as usual with a bit less users and more ad revenue.