Reddit has already lost me as a user in the past month. I originally expected to switch using old reddit exclusively after July 1, but the blackout revealed to me just how bad reddit’s content quality has gone since I first started using it after trying out lemmy and kbin. Reddit’s response to the blackout and protests also showed me that they do not care about their community and that the quality will only go further downhill as the power users migrate away. Reddit was the only social media I used, and now kbin is now the only social media I use. There are still some subreddits I lurk in that have not seen activity here yet, so I still visit reddit once in a while but I only do so using RSS feed. I wish the remaining reddit protesters the best, but it appears to be a losing battle.

Good grief. Little Lord Lemur-roy isn’t going to budge on the API issue, so why stick around? Leave him to his empire of dirt.

I just… don’t care about reddit anymore. I really wanted these protests to succeed, but both the mods AND site admins revealed their true colors, and I ended up here. I fucking love kbin, and wouldn’t go back even if reddit fixed its shit. Whatever happens with that site doesn’t bother me one bit anymore.

I hope the protests go well, but I’m 100% certain that this is more a case of going out with a fizzle than with an explosion. I almost feel bad for them.

Perhaps they should make posts in their new kbin/fedi communties and then only allow links to them posts in their subreddits and disable commenting on reddit. People will then see the new platforms and be likely to sign-up to interact with it.

Or just let the fediverse grow organically, perhaps the masses are better off staying away, but if they are trying to protest reddit, they are doing it the wrong way.

Good on them for taking a stance!