This place has roughly 3,000 people and was intended to be an entire replacement for DaystromInstitute and StarTrek as they were going dark indefinitely. Well, within 4 days the moderators have walked back those statements and opened both subreddits up. I see no incentive for people to come to this website now and while a few may come here in the future, most people will go to r/startrek with 600,000 people.
The change hasn’t even gone into effect yet. Let people deal with the ads and shittiness that is the official app. They’ll be looking for alternatives.
Yeah, it seems pretty obvious that their end goal here is to get people off of 3rd party apps and off of old.reddit so their eyeballs will be exposed to more ads. I now no longer really care how many more people there are on reddit. I’ll do some silly shit to avoid looking at ads. It’s almost like a religious thing for me.
You’re right, as of now it seems that a majority of users and moderators have gone back and using Reddit like normal but after the deadline I wonder what both sites will look like