Instead of closing down it would be cool for 3rd party apps to switch to Lemmy but I know it would be a lot of work.
My wife uses reddit, and couldnât be bothered to use anything other than the official app. Sadly sheâs in the majority with this. Iâd say somewhere between 5-20% of mobile only/heavy reddit users will end up over here, and thatâs heavily dependent on whether or not the subreddits that they like come over here too. I see far too much content for the moment just linking back to reddit
Just deleted all my Reddit accounts! Another social media to forget about⌠đĽą
The first one to fall, unfortunately. The conversation the Apollo Dev had with the admins seemed pretty bleak. Iâm slowly accepting that Reddit needs to die. As a Redditor, we built it. We can kill it.
As a Redditor, we built it. We can kill it.
Maybe. But it may well be, that Reddit has enough momentum to keep going with the shitload of dummy users who donât care about third party apps or quality.
For all we know, half the users over there (re)posting content could be bots that continue indefinitely, reposting more and more popular content from other sites like TikTok with more bots leaving comments that they stole from other posts. Reddit could in theory continue operating even with zero actual users.
I feel lots of people say âWho cares about 3rd party apps?â donât realize the mod community also heavily relies on 3rd party apps. So high chance of the quality of subreddits going downhill regardless. Either way, anyone using Reddit still should be looking for a way off the platform.
I literally just signed up for lemmy after reading this post on reddit. Iâm ready for reddit to crash. Decentralized apps seem like the way to go. It seems super short-sighted on Redditâs part to be basically extorting all these 3rd party apps that are super popular.
Unfortunately, I doubt Reddit would crash. I donât think these online protests have much sway anymore. Twitterâs definitely didnât. And ironically, Lemmy might crash a couple times with going over user capacityâŚ
Either way, we ought to work to avoid it. Chop chop, people, content, we need content! Lifeblood of link aggregators is people having topics.
There is a thing, twitter has already had an okay and quite usable official app alongside third party apps. Reddit official app is buggy as hell and not very intuitive. I think too Reddit will survive, but I think the quality of content is going to go down since many power users were using third party apps.
But for Reddit officials that wouldnât be a problem since they donât care for quality but for engagement.