Reddit won in the since that Sparta lost. Nobody tells the story like they're LOSERS. Sometimes, being the protagonist in a tale is more important than winning.
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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I dunno - I'm here and about the only way I've interacted with reddit since they killed RIF is with Hermit using a suspended account (scrolling combatfootage once in a while).
Previously I upvoted and commented? Not anymore. Now I'm not important but I don't imagine I'm completely alone...
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That's a criminally LONG read for not even having some updated (July) stats counter numbers.
Show me those, then we're talking 👍🏻
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If they won then why am I here?
We got a head start for the future. We got in the lifeboats before the little holes slowly will leak in water so the ship will sink. It takes some time with smal holes 😉
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It was always clear Reddit would not change course.
The real question is whether the fediverse found enough room to germinate and if Reddit's days are numbered.
I'm all in on the fediverse.
Who cares about reddit or the people still on there? Afaic, everyone cool has already moved here, and ya'll have already built a beautiful community. Sometimes its not about destroying a corporate website, but the friends we make along the way.
Meh. The ruthless, slimy, and devoid of moral compass always walk away with the most money.
The key here is that they don't walk away with my money.
Cool story, unfortunately
I'm here and I got infinity, dbzer0 and everything reddit offered me
Lol… the fact that they are saying they “won”.
I think no one expected Reddit to just fold in a month, if that was their terms for “winning” then… congratulations?
For a social media giant such as Reddit, it takes years to come down, just like it took years to get where it was. However, the seeds are sown, and for every decision that only benefits their pockets and not the user, they creep closer to that reality of their own demise.
Turns out that information warfare is trivial when you own all the rights and the lights and the locks on your own platform.
Unless we can agree on a definition of a victory, it's pointless to say whether they "won". For example as far as the FB users are concerned, FB might have won with Reddit ages ago.
We are here and I don't know about you but I'm glad to be here with you all.
To be fair, before the reddit crisis I was looking for a decentralised foss alternative but didn't find anything worthwhile. So, imo, the mere fact that this event may have helped put Lemmy in the spotlight and made it grow is in itself the victory to take away from this battle :)
It takes a long time for sites to die completely. Livejournal was wildly popular in its day, but after a couple of changes of owners and becoming a Russian government propaganda machine later, it still exists, but despite me being a staunch LJer I don't know anyone who still posts there. Nobody talks about it as anything but in the past tense. In time I expect Reddit to be another internet graveyard.