Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
Reddit is requiring manual admin approval to make /r’s private, eliminating the main mechanism for the last sitewide protest agains changes to the API.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protestsOpen linkView original on ani.social
The only valid protest is just walk away from Reddit.
After a year away from Reddit, scrolling through the comments there is a dumpster fire. Let it burn.
It's so sad. Reddit still comes up in my search results and I'll check them out if I'm in a pinch. Most of these results are years old. Rarely ever get a result that's within the last 2 years.
They were spinning gold.
They could have improved user experience, made better mod tools and built a fucking native app that competed with third party apps.
But nope.
Line must go up.
Their goal at this point is to monetize old user content.
I had an account for 15 years, moderated a number of subs, and I do not in any way regret leaving.
Done
Agreed.
That awkward moment when your "public square" turns out to be on private land
And free public land is visible just a few yards away, but you'd rather pay the toll because you don't feel like moving, even though your toll is used to fuel unethical endeavors.
What kind of protest worthy change is reddit about to make?
and more to the point, who cares?
We all should, since many people are "locked" in there and simply do not have the capacity to escape.
Hard disagree. There are also people using Facebook, then complain how they got ads for product x after talking about x casually with a friend. Just stop. They get no sympathy just like the companies didn't get a pass for making services worse and worse.
There are never going to be viable alternatives if people keep using the worsening services
That's frequency illusion and not actually anyone listening to what they talk.
It might be, but you've managed to focus on the single thing in my comment that was just a side note, and tongue-in-cheek as well. You literally ignored my whole point.
Let's be explicit: The point is you can't make the company go into a direction the leadership doesn't want. "Protests" might have a short term effect, at best. that huge protest on Reddit when they changed API terms and more? Barely anyone actually left the platform. Not regular users, but mods did, making the platform technically worse, but the users clearly don't notice. Or don't care enough to leave.
You can't make a company that size do anything, not as an individual, not as a group. Maybe as a share holder, obviously. I hope you got some millions to spare.
You said "we all should care". What for? What does that do? "Caring" is the activists version of "thoughts and prayers". It's saying something, or thinking about something, but has no effect in the real world.
I mean we should care about the people, so help them either move off that platform or change the platform itself. Sorry for ignoring your actual reply.
The people here are a ton better anyways. I just wish some of the more niche communities had more users
Who?
I think he's played by Rowan Atkinson
Isn't it funny that if they would have listened to protestors and not screwed the users that reddit would have been protected.
Time to make Reddit's future impossible. If you know anyone still on there, get them to leave.