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Is it okay to use old.reddit.com or is using it still in support of spez?
Restricting your access to the site is a form of individual consumer activism, and I don’t think that ever really makes a difference.
The thing that will kill reddit is their enshittification leading to an exodus of content creators and the subsequent exodus of casual users.
The tiny influx of traffic you give them when you look something up occasionally isn’t going to make any difference. I visit it when it has answers, but it’s about 1000th of my previous activity and I no longer submit anything.
You may as well lower hay bales off the boat deck of the Lusitania. Yes it will reduce its weight but it’s still been hit by a torpedo. It’s going down; it’s inevitable; don’t stress about it.
I hope all the useful posts will be archived somewhere and accessible later. That’s perhaps the best outcome we can hope for.
Restricting your access to the site is a form of individual consumer activism, and I don’t think that ever really makes a difference.
The thing that will kill reddit is their enshittification leading to an exodus of content creators and the subsequent exodus of casual users.
The tiny influx of traffic you give them when you look something up occasionally isn’t going to make any difference. I visit it when it has answers, but it’s about 1000th of my previous activity and I no longer submit anything.
You may as well lower hay bales off the boat deck of the Lusitania. Yes it will reduce its weight but it’s still been hit by a torpedo. It’s going down; it’s inevitable; don’t stress about it.
I hope all the useful posts will be archived somewhere and accessible later. That’s perhaps the best outcome we can hope for.