Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddit CEO’s recent remarks

Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by satvikpendem on Sunday June 11, 2023 @01:31AM (#36278451)

Reddit doesn't care about users who use third party apps, that's simply a fact. It doesn't matter if they are content producers as there are 500 million monthly active users on Reddit and once people either migrate to the official app (or quit, but I highly doubt that since people say they'll quit a lot of things but never actually do), they'll continue to churn out content.

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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by josephg on Sunday June 11, 2023 @01:42AM (#36278519)

My prediction is it’ll be like the slow death of Facebook. Did Facebook users quit en masse after the Cambridge analytica scandal, or after The Social Dilemma? No, Facebook was still going strong. But it just doesn’t seem culturally relevant any more. People don’t seem to ask to be Facebook friends now. They ask for my insta or WhatsApp. (And meta buying both of those sites seems like an utterly genius move in retrospect.)

I predict the same will happen with reddit. It’ll take awhile for new platforms to mature, and for the good content to leave. But I’d put money on it losing its cultural relevance over the next 5-10 years.

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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by satvikpendem on Sunday June 11, 2023 @02:05AM (#36278637)

Facebook has 3 billion monthly active users. It's not dead by any definition of the word. Even if you and I don't use it, many people around the planet do. It is simply that we are not in the target market anymore, but don't discount 3 billion people, that's around 30-40% of the world's population. Cultural relevancy doesn't matter as long as Facebook still has the install base to show ads to, which is how it makes its money, and why its stock is still one of the best performing in the business.

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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by ben_w on Sunday June 11, 2023 @04:13AM (#36279330)

To an extent. Although the stock price includes the performance of Instagram, doesn't it?

But I count as one of those, and the only time I tap an ad is by accident.

The ads are literally every 3rd slot (for me at least).

What do the advertisers get out of this?

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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by satvikpendem on Sunday June 11, 2023 @04:18AM (#36279352)

Lots of users that are not you nor I click on ads. I should know, I used to run Instagram and Facebook ads for my product and my user acquisition cost on that was far lower than my average revenue per user. People absolutely click on ads and buy stuff.

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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by doix on Sunday June 11, 2023 @05:22AM (#36279643)

People do genuinely click on and buy things from ads. I've never done it, but I helped my personal trainer sell his workout programs online.

I thought he was absolutely crazy and was going to waste a bunch of money. I was completely and utterly wrong. People were clicking ads and buying his workout plans.

At that point I realized I'm completely out of touch with the majority of social media users.

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