Reddit protest by its community moderators has impacted user engagements, traffic and visits to its ad portal since its beginning on June 12.
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.
I deleted my account and have been actively avoiding reddit since. Not going back, and I am much happier for it.
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
good.
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
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.
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
