Reddit Migration

My take: The people who were in support of the protest were mostly the 3rd party client users and a lot of them left after the protest, leaving normal users, like myself, who are there for the content only, to vote for the sub to remain open in order to view the content again

I wouldn't doubt that the majority of users that supported the protest are probably bating their time. They're periodically lurking to see if there has been an impact, not posting, and/or deciding to quit. So what's left are users that didn't support the blackout, and they're pissed and very vocal, and upvoted by the rest of the community that supports u/spez.

I don't think the average redditor cares. They will complain about their third-party app going away, but will use the official one and go on with their life.

Those who have an issue are leaving and not commenting or upvoting each other anymore either. This creates a sort of feedback loop where people critical of Reddit get less positive feedback and either they adjust their opinion to fit the majority or get downvoted. Thus minority opinions are pushed into small communities or off the site entirely.

It‘s always kinda been that way tbh, I could still tolerate it cause who wants to hear Nazi or tankie opinions for example, but now I‘m thinking I‘d rather be uncomfortable with them than comfortable with this hivemind.

there's a degree of contrarianism but here's the other thing

a lot of people using reddit...really hated redditors. it's completely ironic and irrational but it's not an uncommon type of group think within a group. a lot of the "smaller" subreddits in general, and I mean smaller as in millions of users as opposed to tens of millions like the giant /r/pics or whatever. those people will probably celebrate what they see as the migration of the "bad" redditors and are against the protest because they see it as representing general/"bad" reddit

I think I've contributing factor that's likely is that the users that care already bailed and aren't on there anymore

Simply, there's not people I like anymore on Reddit or content I need. It's not a place for me now. I don't care what happens to it, I'll never go on it again. Thankfully I don't have mega niche hobbies so there's a lot of alternatives for me (forums or discords or kbin)

Most of us, the "chronically online" have a lot of voting power and are up to date with reddit and other options to use it. Now, most "left, AKA the majority of reddit users, are just casual users using reddit like any other social media. And most are the kind of people that browse without any form of adblocking