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It’s going to lose more after it turns into an even spammier shit show riddled with scam ads and bots.
They really don’t. Yes. They did lose users and money in the last week but I doubt it will have any significant influence in the future. In half a year they’re back to normal
@zekiz the most significant impact will happen at the end of the month when the 3rd party tools that have been running the place quit working.
Honestly, I’m a very active redditor with over 1000h on reddit and I will leave. However, I don’t think it will make such a major impact on the overall reddit experience when 3% are leaving. Even if they belong to the most active members on reddit. Sure we’ll definitely see a drop in users on the 1.7, but I don’t think it will have such a huge impact on the revenue.
I’m really hoping it does, but even then the question remains on how platforms like Lemmy or Kbin make money. They don’t have any ads and Lemmy and Kbin currently have about as many members as a large subreddit.
I was here before Lemmy blew up and I can say it definitely improved and it improved fast but well have to see how many actually stay here and stay active
I think you are forgetting one thing: Reddit is the content, not the servers. If the most active members start to flee the rest will follow because Reddit won’t have content anymore. Or at least not the content that drags people and makes them stay.
High doubtful.
A significant population have left for good. Sure more will take it’s places but it will get shttier and shittier. Just like Facebook before it.
This is reddits watershed moment.
Those that care will leave. Those that don’t will drive it down into the depths of hell. Remember reddit works because of content creators. As they leave or that content changes. It will slowly or quickly change.
It will slowly turn into only a stale repost-fest.
The front pages are already filled with content copy-pasted from instagram and tiktok and news repost bots. Once the small communities that bubble to the surface occationally are completely snuffed out reddit will be quora-level dead.
The month or so before I left (11th) it was already a spam/porn bot mess. Up until then I have never gotten a chat request, and suddenly 5-10 only fans chat requests.
