I’ve seen many comments and posts regarding the API fiasco on Reddit, with the claim that there will be a huge influx of users when that happens. I’m all for it, but I find it hard to believe that the average or even above average user will make the effort to switch.
I might be alone, but I don’t want or need a huge amount of users. I’d rather discuss the subjects I want to talk about with a smaller group of users. It would be nice to have some familiarity in the comments as well. On the big subreddits, your comment was practically guaranteed to be lost in the sea of thousands of comments unless you were the first to comment, or had bots upvoting you. If I want my comments to be lost, I’ll comment on a Tiktok video.
I do miss the unexpected celebrity or expert comments that would pop up every once in awhile. Like, Oh, here’s u/GovSchwarzenegger giving some sort of motivational comment to somebody, or GODDAMNIT, u/shittymorph got me again with his ridiculously well-written comment that devolves into copypasta, or, oh hey look, it’s a particle physicist at CERN who’s an expert in this field and knows that the linked article is BS because X, Y, and Z. Smaller is nicer in some respects, less garbage to sift through, but having world experts on hand to comment on posts was pretty cool too.
Yep ngl that was pretty cool of Reddit. The AMAs however I could never get a question answered so it was just a spectator sport for me at times.
I expect it’ll be its own Eternal September
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
It’ll be just like Reddit, if you want to avoid the huge mega popular communities you absolutely can. And the smaller more specific communities that you want to interact with won’t have the annoying traffic you’re talking about.