This is a rant post and I apologize but I had to talk about this. Most subs are coming back online and not saying ANYTHING about the next steps. Only a handful of subs are going indefinite. I checked the front page for the first time today after leaving the a couple hours before the day of the blackout and what do I see? Subs are up, and comments and upvotes are up to the general average before the blackout.
I checked r/gaming to see their recent post (WHICH HAS OVER 68k UPVOTES), and I see a comment with over 500 upvotes saying in a nutshell, “You guys need to calm down, they’re a company and need to make money”.
Along with a couple other comments saying similar things. Are you fucking serious? You can’t even have the fucking balls to say, “This is a company that has consistently screwed over its users and I need to take a stand and quit my addiction”? You’re just gonna sit and do nothing? Fuck you. You’re no fucking better than u/spez. You’re all a bunch of fucking hypocritical liars for shitting on spez and the admins while talking about how you’re “done” with Reddit and you won’t support this.
Go touch grass you fucking addicted cowards. I’m glad I made the switch to Lemmy if it means I don’t have to interact with dumbfucks like you.
Yes, there is a logical inconsistency in the statements about how many users are actually affected. On one hand Reddit claims to lose a lot of money on advertising, yet the 3.part app userbase is a too small to care about. So which is it?
There already is a noticeable change. The remaining users are very angry right now, understandably so, but it may also hint at more hidden problem for Reddit.
As this topic suggests (and my experience is the same) it’s really toxic over there right now.
If the toxic behaviour doesn’t normalize soon then Reddit shouldn’t worry about users leaving, they ought to worry about what kind of users remain. There probably has been a some brain drainage in the userbase and it will get worse when the apps actually close. Who wants to sign up for that…