I feel that the last year has been awful for the assistant. We have a google nest mini or w/e in the bedroom, and I can’t snooze my alarm for 10min without it shitting the bed and setting off the alarm, while also asking me if I meant 10am or pm (as if I’m setting a new alarm). To be clear, I can snooze for 9 or 11 minutes just fine. But 10 minutes is no good.
I mean - it was a ~6% drop…Most of which is probably back by now. The visit duration was a decently significant drop at about 10%, but that will surely return to normal as more subreddits open back up. I doubt reddit is going anywhere, or will even make any substantial changes resulting from the protest.
Overall, I’m unlikely to go back. Not necessarily to hurt reddit or anything, but because fediverse alternatives seem pretty reasonable without ads that will be forced on users now that reddit third party API calls are basically gutted. The infrastructure is here to make something good. Hopefully the turnout will stick around and increase beyond the initial influx of users from the protest. I will say that, of the various “exodus” episodes of reddit’s lifetime, this seems more impactful. I think mainly due to the alternatives actually being present. Earlier attempts at exodus fell short because there was simply nothing similar out there.
Honestly, my only use case for reddit currently is as an archive for my questions that likely have answers on reddit. A reddit archive Lemmy instance would allow me to completely stop usage of reddit, easily. I’d imagine there are a lot in the same boat.
Not sure that it’s even a feasible option, but it would be welcomed. If anyone has some suggestions to solve this use case I’d be interested to hear it.