It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.

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.

  • ApeNo1@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    To stop Reddit monsters, one, two, three
    Here’s a fresh new way that’s trouble-free
    It’s got Paul Anka’s guarantee

    Guarantee void in Tennessee.

    Just don’t look!
    Just don’t look!

    • Ogmios@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      That awkward moment when you realize you helped it happen because you got a chance to chirp at people you didn’t like.

      • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        We all should, since many people are “locked” in there and simply do not have the capacity to escape.

        • Creat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          2 months ago

          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

            • Creat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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              2 months ago

              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.

              • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                2 months ago

                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.

    • Skyline969@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      After a year away from Reddit, scrolling through the comments there is a dumpster fire. Let it burn.

      • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I had an account for 15 years, moderated a number of subs, and I do not in any way regret leaving.

      • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

  • Mandy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    the “sidewide” protest didnt work before so giving it extra measures is worthless anyway

  • billbasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The people here are a ton better anyways. I just wish some of the more niche communities had more users