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The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.::Reddit corporate claims victory over its disgruntled mods as r/aww, r/pics, and r/videos abandon the "John Oliver rule."

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[–] exapsy@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

I dont know what you say, I transitioned to Lemmy 100% and deleted my acc at reddit.

The only super annoying thing is that they get to keep the cake whole and the dog full (my comments by deleting my name and my acc deleted). Which I despite them for that even more now and just make me avoid the platform even more and dis-advertise it.

I would be fully happy if I had my account, changed my comments first to "fuck /u/spez" and then had deleted my account, but I only knew so much. I was naive enough to think they would delete my comments too, since they're My Intellectual Property. Right? They came from my own mind, I took the time to write them, and I deleted them! But no! We will keep them, just delete your name.

And when you google my reddit username, you still get from the google's cache directed to threads with my deleted comments. Fuck you spez. Fuck you.

Time will tell if reddit won. It's not a short-term fight. I deleted my discord a Chinese Tencent's vessel and a product that makes no money but burns money for the sake of gathering data. My Instagram, my Meta account thus my FB too, my WhatsApp, every app that was there just to gather my data or exploit me now or in the future.

I do everything to keep off being fingerprinted. I use platforms that use more and more end-to-end encryption like Matrix. Or at worst Telegram which is not end to end but the best of the worst since my relatives still use it.

Just because you don't see it yet, doesn't mean that a movement against anti-consumer platforms like reddit don't exist. I inform my mom about it, I inform my relatives and friends about it. I move friends and friends move me to safer for the future to use platforms and de-centralized.

A battle may be short, but the war is long.

[–] lorkano@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I removed all of my comments first, so they dont have anything. Used app to do this, took few minutes to remove thousands

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[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just If you consider the growth of 7000% of a competitor in the era when many players fight for the attention of the users a victory. Time will tell

[–] MrFagtron9000@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There's two problems...

  1. There is no easy to use singular Reddit replacement. (The fediverse is not easy to use to normal people.)

  2. Reddit is such a large social media site now that all the nerds getting angry and leaving doesn't matter. 10 years ago this change would have killed Reddit, but now that normal people like my mom are on Reddit they don't give a shit about using the official Reddit app, in fact they were probably already using it.

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[–] _thrax@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

So buying reddit coins and gilding every “fuck spez” comment/post didn’t work? I can’t believe it!

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"I'm bleeding, making me the victor!" - Reddit after losing half their valuation, alienating their user base, removing veteran mods, and revealing how shit of a company they actually are

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[–] who8mydamnoreos@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I won because Im free of that site

News brought to you be [official news side totally not paid by spez]

[–] zerbey@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

They won, but hopefully the hit they took gives them pause. Lemmy won too, it's become a nice little community and I'm happy to be here.

[–] shinobizilla@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Partly because the majority of the people didn't even know there were 3rd party apps lol. Many people don't even care about the protests. Reddit is too big for it to go down overnight.

The only thing we could do now is build better communities here.

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[–] anonyplum@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

Just a matter of time till majority of its users realise how easy it is to migrate to lemmy and how greedy and evil reddit has become.

[–] omnius@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Reddit didn't win over me. I edited all my comments to "fuck u/spez", got suspended from a couple subreddits, and then never logged back in to my account. Been using Lemmy ever since.

[–] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The victor is not victorius if the vanquished does not consider themselves so

Never stop fighting, we will win!

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Assuming that this is not just Reddit paying Gizmodo for an article to discourage people from using Lemmy by shaping the narrative that everyone is back on Reddit, then I would say it's just way too early for Gizmodo to make this call.

Enough people have come over to make a push/pull environment happen between the two sites. Time will tell which one pulls the most over to their side.

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