See you on the other side

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    1 year ago

    I am 99% lurker and I joined a few weeks ago. I’ve been patiently waiting to see what happens with the amount and type of content after an assumed bump in activity when 3rd party apps go dark.

    I was an Alien Blue user for years before Reddit purchased it, then I was using Sync (and will be again soon with Sync for Lemmy). Reddit is essentially dead to me without 3rd party apps.

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    1 year ago

    You know you fucked up, when even google gets worse for a few days, because of the subs you made go dark.

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      1 year ago

      Most 3rd party Reddit apps will be gone, and Reddit have shown willingness to move to a far more closed model than it used to be. Mods were and are not the only ones to leave.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah people like you and me care about that, but let’s face it, if the average user cared about how shitty social media sites treat them then FB and Twitter would be deserts

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          FB is a desert compared with the old days, and Twitter will get there as well. Maybe the “AI revolution” can replace all the organic human content with fake people, but that’s about their only chance long term. If you can even call such a thing a “win”.

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            I hope that is the case with FB but according to my American friends it’s still the social media site of choice for racist uncles everywhere

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    1 year ago

    This absolutely feels like republicans setting themselves up for the “red wave” in 2020 that never materialized.

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        1 year ago

        While I want to agree with this, there have been a number of people saying they will stop using Reddit when the changes come into force on July 1.

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          Yeah people say stuff like that all the time. If they were really going to leave they’d have done it already

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            1 year ago

            I heard that less than 10% of redditors use 3rd party apps. After tomorrow, I doubt that the whole 10% moves here. Maybe 5% if we are lucky (on unlucky if you are an instance owner).

            What really matters is how well the mods can manage the site without their 3rd party tools. Without them, moderation will suffer.

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        1 year ago

        There will probably be another wave. Simply for the fact that moderation bots are going to stop functioning tomorrow and Spam is just going to go through the roof. It all depends on how fast Reddit can get a handle on that situation.

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          1 year ago

          Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about the moderation tools losing API access. The big subreddits don’t have the staff to manually fight all of that, especially with at least some of the senior/dedicated mods losing at least some interest in keeping things afloat. Pro bono work was already rough enough with tools to help. Remove those tools and it’s going to put a lot of people off moderating in a serious manner.

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            1 year ago

            Unpaid staff at that

            At what point do they just decide fuck it and stop trying to fight against all the spam and irrelevant posts because they simply just don’t have the means to anymore

      • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        I just got notification from bacon reader that I can’t use it anymore after almost 10 years. It was how I used reddit. I reckon a lot of folks will be getting that same announcement tomorrow, loads of iphone users especially. So I just deleted my account today. Reckon other people will do the same

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    I’ve seen people that use third party apps and had no idea about them going away. Let’s see if it effects Reddit in any meaningful way.