Rule 1: All Posts Must Be About Vacuum Cleaners
Rule 2: All Comments Must Be “Wellthatsucks”
Really funny and impossible to block
- sina ( @sina@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 year ago
The best protest method is to just not visit the site at all.
- scifu ( @scifu@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
I think instead of mods trying the active protest they should just do passive protesting. Do bare minimum of work and let users (read trolls) post whatever they want.
- Evan ( @Cloak@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Catch-22. Subreddit mods can be removed for not moderating
- McBinary ( @McBinary@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
This is pretty funny, but I still think it would piss investors off more if there was just a mass influx of gay porn without nsfw tags in every sub after the mod tools break. Hard to get advertisers that way. 🤷
- techno156 ( @techno156@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Don’t even need porn. Just have a wave of spambots poised and ready. There’s a non-zero chance many of the big moderation tools will break, and moderators using the site/official app could be overwhelmed, and I’d not be surprised if some spam/repost bot operators were waiting for precisely that moment, because the mods would be more limited in what they can do/use.
- nicktron ( @nicktron@kbin.social ) 0•1 year ago
What would really piss off investors is if nobody used the site. Posting memes to and visiting the site you’re trying to protest doesn’t achieve anything.
- ReCursing ( @ReCursing@kbin.social ) 0•1 year ago
Why gay porn?
- Trebach ( @Trebach@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
It irritates the puritans more.
- DrownedAxolotl ( @DrownedAxolotl@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Oh, I like this even better. I hope a lot of other subs do this as well. Wonder what r/feedthebeast would look like.
- WoodGrainTerrain ( @xXxOxhamxXx@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year ago
;)
- crilen ( @crilen@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Have you checked out /r/pics? Lol
- Sept ( @Sept@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Why do you want to advertise for Reddit protest on Lemmy ? I mean I understand if you want to protest because you want Reddit to stay as it is, but then why go on Lemmy to do that ? If you want to come to Lemmy that’s great, but with this kind of post it more looks like you are staying hère just waiting for Reddit to be black. No offense here, you do whatever you want, but I’m juste wondering why you would do this ?
Why are you commenting on c/reddit on lemmy then ?
- Junglist ( @Junglist@kbin.social ) 0•1 year ago
Cos the post is showing up on my kbin /all feed.
A guy is walking down the street and sees a restaurant, he goes in and says “why are you eating here ?”. It starts like a joke, finish it
- gamebuster ( @gamebuster@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
I love this :) Also, welcome me, this is my first post on Lemmy!
- DrownedAxolotl ( @DrownedAxolotl@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Welcome gamebuster!
- gamebuster ( @gamebuster@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Thanks! I feel very welcome
- Larvitar ( @Larvitar@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
While this is funny, it drives traffic to the site so it’s the equivalent of people buying Nike shoes to then burn as protest. The company is still making money and they’re getting free advertising.
A better protest would be to delete Reddit accounts, uninstall the apps, and see how long you can go without hearing or thinking about reddit.
- BlackCoffee ( @BlackCoffee@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
It depends, how long until it will not be fun anymore to see every sub turned into a meme?
I give it 2 days. After that people will stop tuning in as regularly.
Also traffic != money in regards of advertisers.
If traffic increases but the engagement lowers then that is a death blow to reddit.
The metric that got posted 1-2 days ago that engagement was cut down from 31 to 17 seconds during/after the blackout is huge and a metric the advertisers will look at.
- smokinjoe ( @smokinjoe@kbin.social ) 0•1 year ago
In the short term, sure
But in the long term, the novelty will wear thin and people will find the content they want elsewhere
Not exactly. I think the advertisers will start to ask some uncomfortable questions, as will any inverstors for the IPO.
- Yoshizuki ( @Yoshizuki@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
I started learning to use photoshop instead of braindeadly scrolling Reddit. It’s more peaceful and enjoyable.
- techno156 ( @techno156@kbin.social ) 0•1 year ago
Reddit’s CEO outright admitted that their own app was “never profitable”, while also complaining third party’s apps were making money from the same content.
If I was an investor, I’d absolutely want a good explanation for why Reddit isn’t able to make their own app profitable, while other Reddit apps can do just that.
- Larvitar ( @Larvitar@kbin.social ) 0•1 year ago
3rd party reddit apps aren’t bogged down resource hogs meant solely to preload videos of “he gets us” propaganda. Do the investors even use the default reddit app? Of course not!
- BrenoMartins ( @BrenoMartins@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Wellthatsucks
- Trebach ( @Trebach@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
For those who don’t want to follow the link, it’s pictures of John Oliver in an artistic manner.