Reddit is paying the price for ignoring the users' protest against latest changes made by the company. On the one hand, many people have moved to platforms such as Lemmy,…
They’ve lost their reputation. Their actions over the past few weeks have soured at least a portion of their most die-hard users who generate the content for the site.
I myself was an avid user visiting daily and contributing/helping newbies multiple times a day answering the same questions and guiding them in the right direction. That all stopped - I haven’t been on the site since the blackout started. I even blocked reddit at the router level so I don’t accidentally visit the site.
I’ve since found two other social media platforms (kbin social and squabbles) to scratch my itch for social interactions. I won’t miss reddit - it’s not the old reddit it used to be a decade ago.
Maybe when the dust settles I’ll return to lurk reddit and laugh at the sh!t show it’s become, but I won’t return in the capacity I did before
They’ve lost their reputation. Their actions over the past few weeks have soured at least a portion of their most die-hard users who generate the content for the site.
I myself was an avid user visiting daily and contributing/helping newbies multiple times a day answering the same questions and guiding them in the right direction. That all stopped - I haven’t been on the site since the blackout started. I even blocked reddit at the router level so I don’t accidentally visit the site.
I’ve since found two other social media platforms (kbin social and squabbles) to scratch my itch for social interactions. I won’t miss reddit - it’s not the old reddit it used to be a decade ago.
Maybe when the dust settles I’ll return to lurk reddit and laugh at the sh!t show it’s become, but I won’t return in the capacity I did before