Reddit Captures 7% to 16% Less Audience Time During Blackout

Re:Reddit Captures 7% to 16% Less Audience Time During Blackout by Justsignedup on Sunday June 25, 2023 @01:33AM (#36465360)

I mean I stopped using reddit and I think I'm better for it. I haven't replaced it with much else so it's a good thing.

So takeaway. I don't care what happens, they can make all the money in the world, I can only control what I use and consume.

I find the next draft to be a wonderful curated news aggregation that someone has been lovingly doing for a long long time. It has been better for keeping up with the news.

So that's it.

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Re:Reddit Captures 7% to 16% Less Audience Time During Blackout by Terr_ on Sunday June 25, 2023 @03:55AM (#36465912)

13 years, over 500,000 comment karma, also taking a break.

Of course, Reddit made it easier when they randomly removed all my posts and comments! I appealed, got a canned "oops, spam-filter false-positive, fixed now" message, but they didn't actually fix anything, and the sole appeals-form stopped working because it falsely claims the account is normal... And it happened a second time when I sought help using another account! (Yes, I'm very bitter at the Kafkaesque shitstorm.)

Fortunately I was still able to get a data dump--a bunch of massive CSV files--so it's not a total loss, some things I'm proud of writing I can still reuse.

So maybe it's time to go back to blogging, perhaps replace the abandoned WordPress site with a static generator...

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