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Reddit protest plunges user engagement, site activity and ad portal visits

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/28/reddit-protest-user-engagements-site-activity-impact/

Reddit protest by its community moderators has impacted user engagements, traffic and visits to its ad portal since its beginning on June 12.

18 comments

tartan

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good.

Clbull

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We are two days away from virtually every third-party Reddit app shutting down. Of all the ones that announced their closure, I'm only aware of one that's continuing on a premium subscription model that would allow it to pay Reddit's outrageous API usage fees.

I imagine a good chunk of Reddit are OOTL on what's going on, or haven't comprehended the true gravity of apps like Baconreader, Sync, Reddit Is Fun, Apollo, etc shutting down in two days time.

The exodus to Lemmy is going to intensify over the coming days when more and more people realise what a crock of shit the official Reddit app is. Also if the data stolen from Reddit back in February gets leaked as planned and it contains some truly spicy shit, that's going to speed up the rate of refugees.

Lantier

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RedReader will continue to be free, it was granted free access to the API as it is considered an accessibility oriented app.

demonsword

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the time spent on the Reddit website dropped to about 7.16 minutes on the first two days of the protest, down from an average of about 8.40 minutes for other days before that period

8min? rookie numbers... I've used to spend 2h everyday there

teamevil

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I am still going through withdrawal....I love Lemmy so far but I miss how well I kenw how to get around in old.reddit. welp Reddit sounds past tense and turns out it is now past tense.

curiosityLynx

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That article reminded me to go to the google play store and write a 1 star review of the app. Made a reference to enshittification.

cassetti

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I blocked reddit at the router level o prevent any accidental traffic from my network since the blackout. In a few months after the dust has settled, I plan to write a script to edit my posts (slowly at one per minute) to say something else, then go back and erase all posts, one by one. But I'm not doing it now since they appear to have a script preventing people from bulk erasing/deleting posts

harmonea

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My approach was to unsubscribe from all my subs. Going there and seeing an empty front page serves as a reminder that there's nothing there for me now, and also jolts me into realizing that I've idly opened it up yet again.

I'll get rid of the app (rif) when it shuts down, but for now, getting slammed in the face by an empty front page is helping me break the habit more naturally than past quit attempts.

be_excellent_to_each_other

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As long as you do it before the api change tomorrow, you can do it now if you wish. (Totally understand if you like the idea of scripting it yourself)

Running this now on my second and final account. https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

cassetti

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Nope, not going to use the API - I don't trust reddit to do some sheisty stuff over the next few days.

I'm going to write an automated script to simulate physical mouseclicks and keystrokes. No API needed if I put in enough delays between my interactions haha

be_excellent_to_each_other

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Fair enough, carry on! :-)

https://i.giphy.com/media/rHR8qP1mC5V3G/giphy.webp

Cloud55

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I deleted my account and have been actively avoiding reddit since. Not going back, and I am much happier for it.

xc2215x

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That was the point of it.

bearr

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Why does this article say they’re headquartered in Israel? Their HQ is in San Francisco. In any case, I’m curious to see how the dust settles on all of this.

dan1101

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I think the article was referring to "web traffic analysis firm Similarweb", but yeah it was confusing. I think Similarweb is the article's source for a lot of those numbers, so the data is not official.

Raphael

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San Francisco is an american city, Israel is an american colony, no big different either way.

joel_feila

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i prefer usa military base

teamevil

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Colonies do not have the amount of political influence that Israel has in the US. It's something much worse like Stockholm Syndrome or something and I'm not sure who the victim is, other than all the Palestinians of course.

MelonTheMan

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San Fran has better bagels

Nisciunu

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Sounds like good news to me