They should just give up and leave, bless them for trying and all but haven’t they learned anything…
Don’t get me wrong. There’s some support communities on Reddit I still visit. I don’t want to see them burn down in flames. But there’s no help from the admins coming. You might as well ask your cat.
I think most people knew it was a protest and nothing more - I doubt a lot of people thought, hey Reddit is totally going to back down.
It was a mass expression of user dissatisfaction which escalated from an initial 2 day blackout into something so much more, and so I’m pretty impressed with what it did, which was stirred up shit for the management and made the CEO say some ridiculous things in the press to boot.
What I am a little disappointed in is that not as many mods walked. I’m not a mod, but I was fed the line ‘it’s going to be impossible to mod my sub without the 3rd party apps’. Given the amount of subs that seem to have been ticking over just nicely since the API switch though I feel like I was fed some bs in that department
The only thing I go on Reddit for now at the moment is to browse their comic sub once every now and then.
But that’s not completely dropping Reddit. Because Lemmy/Kbin is still in its early stages there’ll be a lot of people who spend most of their time here but occasionally go to Reddit for that one sub or for some particular thing that’s not quite made it here yet.