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I tried and was downvoted even when I made an actual contributing post, and limited it to mentioning the lemmy community only in the comments.
The core r/vans community and SamTheKing25 (top mod) is awesome and supported the blackout when voted on. But the overall reddit community has grown so toxic.. And while r/vans may be niche, it is in the top 5% largest subreddits.
So while the most active posters/supportive community members may remain, they are outnumbered by a very toxic mass, many of whom mostly just vote and sometimes comment. And they are solely the community members responsible for the rare hateful comments in r/vans. Sadly I think the user-base of reddit as a whole will only grow more toxic.
Edit: Want to clarify that I made a reddit post that was well received before the blackout happened, in which I did link c/vans. But I made another post sharing a new pair the other day, and was downvoted for mentioning lemmy in the comments.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Reddit admins have it set up to automatically downvote anyone mentioning one of the alternatives. It makes me wonder how often they were messing with the apparent popularity of many posts and comments. Like somethings that were downvoted were just baffling as to why anyone would have a problem with that specific thing being said.
Yeah, the admins there have a proven, long history of deceitful manipulation.
Yeah - I honestly believe the 3PA users were top community contributors and more likely to leave.
I have no hard data to back it up, but it sure seems like the overall quality of content on Reddit has bombed.
Personally I’m no power user or anything but I did have 6 figure comment and post karma. I even gave myself permission to use old.reddit.com after the API change and I’ve just had no urge to contribute. I’ve started to post a couple times and decided it’s just not worth the effort anymore.
Wait till they have lesser quality stuff to consume!