Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they’ve been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving…

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    Several major subs have closed, they’re forced to campaign to keep mods, a significant amount of content generators have left. Even though it’s been only a couple weeks, they’ve slid on the global index of visited sites. They’ve lost 3-4% of 1.7 billion views in weeks. That’s 10’s of millions of ads not delivered. That alone is several million dollars lost on a site trying to be profitable. This doesn’t include people on the fence, people currently unaffected because their app didn’t die until this week, or people just watching the drama until it’s boring again. Also, Reddit depends heavily on free labor to succeed, the bulk of the community that is leaving is their free labor pool. They don’t have the cash to pay moderators for their time and they just removed the tools that let those people do their work.

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        /r/pics didn’t close, but probably doesn’t get the clicks it did before.

        /r/bestof seems to only make a daily protest post.

        I’ve stopped visiting so much, so I don’t know a lot, but those two seem significant.

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            At time of posting, there are still 1922 subreddits that are private
            https://reddark.untone.uk/
            Or the 855 subreddits that have chosen to move to other platforms on sub.rehab
            But hey, if you don’t like it here, that’s fine, you don’t have to be here. If you’re that bored that you’re choosing to spend time flaming in a social media that you don’t enjoy, might I suggest some hobbies like video games, picking up an instrument, or underwater basket weaving.
            Cheers

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              Underwater… basket weaving? (Wondering if this is a technique I hadn’t heard of for softening materials or suggesting one compromise their lung function 🤣)

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                Why not both?
                Yeah, it’s usually done to soften the material, but I’m not responsible for anyone that misunderstands and incidentally drowns themselves 🙃

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      The people that are worth the most are the ones that care the most. And they’re the most likely to bother to move.

      It’s emptying from the top. Mods, tool developers, content creators, commenters. The last to go will be the bots.