• Genericusername@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yup. Just like Spez predicted. The site is maybe less popular, but it will survive. The protests will die off eventually. The Reddit clones will never be as popular and active as Reddit once was. Maybe eventually the investers and advertisers will return, and it will be seen in hindsight as a smart move. The quality of the content may take a drop, but it was a calculated risk of making it more profitable.

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      1 year ago

      It was a pretty safe bet. Most of the people on this planet don’t give a shit about principles or corporate hostilities so long as they get what they want.

      It drives me nuts!

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      The Reddit clones will never be as popular and active as Reddit once was.

      They used to say the same kind of things about Digg.

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      1 year ago

      The real problem was always a lack of alternatives imo. A “protest” can’t work on the website you’re literally using. What should have happened is those people all moved to another platform, but there isn’t one. There isn’t one canonical alternative to reddit, so they had to “protest” there.

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        1 year ago

        I mean, a priest didn’t have to leave the platform if it hits the ad revenue, which things like going NSFW have reportedly done.