<story><title>Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/149zmar/reddits_blackout_protest_is_set_to_continue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idiotsecant</author><text>It seems to me like this is turning into a subreddit migration in slow motion. A lot people still want to post content and a lot of people still want to read content, so what&amp;#x27;s happening is people are posting it to the less popular &amp;#x27;alternative&amp;#x27; versions of the popular subreddits and those posts make the frontpage instead. It seems like there is a noticeable decline in quality but i&amp;#x27;m still seeing quite a bit of posting. Not sure if it&amp;#x27;s having the intended impact or not. I think the missing thing here is a viable, popular alternative. Digg died because reddit existed. If there was a consensus on the next reddit I would think reddit should be much more worried.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rblatz</author><text>Also most people don’t really care about the API&amp;#x2F;3rd party app thing. It doesn’t impact them and it looks from the outside like a bunch of dorks with no lives getting worked up over nothing.&lt;p&gt;I’ve been on Reddit since the digg migration and I’ve never felt the need for an app, old.reddit.com and Adblock works perfectly fine on the phone.  Better than Reddit’s mobile site.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/149zmar/reddits_blackout_protest_is_set_to_continue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idiotsecant</author><text>It seems to me like this is turning into a subreddit migration in slow motion. A lot people still want to post content and a lot of people still want to read content, so what&amp;#x27;s happening is people are posting it to the less popular &amp;#x27;alternative&amp;#x27; versions of the popular subreddits and those posts make the frontpage instead. It seems like there is a noticeable decline in quality but i&amp;#x27;m still seeing quite a bit of posting. Not sure if it&amp;#x27;s having the intended impact or not. I think the missing thing here is a viable, popular alternative. Digg died because reddit existed. If there was a consensus on the next reddit I would think reddit should be much more worried.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adeon</author><text>I think even though there is no consensus on the next Reddit, this might be another inflection point in Reddit downhill. It might not die on short term but I think being super crappy to your userbase makes you more vulnerable to future competition. I&amp;#x27;m thinking something like what Tiktok did to Instagram or Facebook.&lt;p&gt;I am really hoping the next Reddit is not some megacorp effort.</text></comment>