The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. It's the official end of the battle. The Reddit protest is over, and Reddit won.
Major social media platforms don’t just explode and go extinct, they slowly slip into irrelevancy.
Digg still exists, no-one cares. Tumblr still exists, no-one cares. Myspace still exists, no-one cares. The list goes on and on.
Exactly. I no longer visit Reddit since the incident. I know I’m one person but there are others just like me. Fuck Reddit. I mean digg. Or do I mean Reddit? Ceo is a loser.
The question is, what percentage of the 90:9:1 ratio they lose?
The 90% being those who just use it The 9% being those who engage and comment The 1% being the content creators.
Reddit would seem to have lost a lot of the 1% and a fair chunk of the 9%.
The 90% will take at least a year to understand that there is not any new engaging content being created.
The thing is, the website you listed have direct alternatives. Right now with the current format Reddit is the only big player so moving away from it will be very hard. Tumblr user migrated to Twitter, and we haven’t seen the same thing happened to Lemmy at that scale yet.