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It was done in a very "reddit" brained way. The protest got over, everyone moved back to reddit.

2023 api was what led me here. Actually, might've been earlier. I was here since fuck spez protests.

Edit: actually, yeah 2023 was both api and fuck spez protests

Those that cared generally left the platform for places like Lemmy. That's why I'm here.

The vast majority of people don't particularly care though, and the people that do care generally overestimate how much everyone else cares. And they overestimate how many other people actually care at all.

The CEO threatened the Reddit mods that he would replace them if they didn’t reopen the subs, so nearly every mod reopened and everything went back to normal. The CEO won easily without offering anything, and he was right when he said that ‘this too shall pass.’

Well, yeah. Why would he have to offer anything? It's his site, and mods are not employees. They are just users and can be banned or replaced with another user at any time. Mods don't have any leverage whatsoever.

If they did it again we'd win. Second wave will kill it I think.

Most of the reasons people didn't stick around are technical, there are some social reasons but they'd rapidly get drowned out by the incoming wave or find nice instances that respect their... values.

I quit Twitter after the kitchen sink incident in 2022.

Quit Reddit for good after the API bullshit.

I like the Fediverse.

That's when I migrated over here. I'll still lurk reddit on occasion but on the rare occasion I post I'll do it here.

Learned a lot about communities I didn't know existed.

Glad to be here and not on that bot-run place!

I left Reddit. I came here and Discord.

The reddit feed is its biggest strength. It's addictive for the general public. Lemmy feed is not that addictive or maybe there are more people like me who don't know how to properly customize it.

Didn't the admins just ban any mods who kept their subreddit up like that after the three weeks?

I left Reddit and ran a script that was supposed to remove all my posts (don’t know if it worked or not).

It was ironic as it happened literally a week after I had bought the premium version of Apollo because I had used it for years and figured I’d finally throw the dev some money. He offered refunds to people but I declined.

Fuck u/Spez

Many of the decent mods left and the bootlickers remained. There was a noticeable shift in the more „high effort“ subreddits like /r/hobbydrama where they receive a fraction of the posts they once did, indicating a shift in audience towards a more passive one. Places like /r/livestreamfail, which was already pretty bad, got so much worse. It’s a visibly rotting corpse of a site.

I remember migrating from Digg to Reddit, then Reddit to Lemmy

It seems reddit has made it even worse now. I cannot se anything anymore without installing their clunky app and making a burner account.

Reddit is not the same place it was in 2011. The average user in 2023 did not care or even know about the API changes, the vast majority were already using it on the official app.

So from the viewpoint of an average user there was maybe some news about reddit making some kind of change, then some confusion as a bunch of subreddits were unavailable, then after a couple days it went away and it was back to business as usual. And that was that.

I was a mod for a number of large communities. I contributed thoughtful (and sometimes not so thoughtful) content on a regular basis. When the API debacle happens I and quite a number of long time (15+ years) reddit users quit and haven't returned. I nuked my account then deleted it. Haven't been back since and don't miss it.

I think the results of many long term intelligent content generators leaving at once are pretty self evident.