Multiple subreddits are adopting alternative methods of protesting like publishing only one kind of post and private days.
  •  saigot   ( @saigot@lemmy.ca ) 
    6•1 year ago

    I think this is the death knoll for the protest unfortunately. Shitposting hurts the user experience, but it doesn’t really hurt reddit. In a week or two the casual users will revolt against the protests and the mods will feel like they have lost popular support and cave.

    Hopefully enough people have fully left the platform to cause reddit some pain. But honestly I think reddit would rather have a smaller easier to manipulate user base of new users rather than keeping all the oldest and most cynical users.

    •  Stewie   ( @StewieTheThird@beehaw.org ) 
      1•1 year ago

      I think long term reddit will start to bleed out. There is simply no world where once that IPO drops they don’t start making even more anti-user choices. Digg has members active to this day. Its just a matter of time. I genuinely see fediverse projects as the future, it’s just about organic growth now and the shutdowns did a great job of jumpstarting the process.

    •  darkmugglet   ( @darkmugglet@lemm.ee ) 
      1•1 year ago

      It’s burning the barn down. Sure, new subs will happen, but they will be harder to find, and they need to re-establish the rules. It also makes monetization hard. All those ads sold against specific subs are worthless. And now reddit doesn’t know what subs it can sell ads against. Basically they can only sell ads generally to the entire site. This hits Reddit in the wallet. Also, it mucks up selling the data to AI companies.

      Long term, I think you are correct. But short term reddit is trying to IPO. This whole protest will devalue any IPO and cause investors to think twice.

    •  foni   ( @foni@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 
      0•1 year ago

      I think the action should be coordinated with a migration to lemmy, every user who complains about the lack of quality content you forward (via comments) to the counterpart here