How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
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Users were outraged, but Reddit mostly won.

How is reddit post protest, did it really win over protesters? Did the ones who left make a dent? Or like all things before, did it ultimately do nothing?

  • Poob@lemmy.caEnglish
    38·
    1 year ago

    Saying that it’s over and the Reddit won is a bit naive. The majority of the subs that I used to frequent have come back online, but they are definitely still protesting. ProgrammerHumor is making new troll rules based on majority vote every week. Madlads made everyone a mod. Many subs are posting John Oliver or troll versions of their original purpose.

    It’s not over. Will they succeed? Who knows. But Reddit is currently a completely different place than it was a month ago because of the ongoing protests.

      • whofearsthenight@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        1 year ago

        I started spending more time at reddit slightly before the digg exodus, and yeah. The masses aren’t the ones to worry about, it’s the people that have been creating content and moderating it for the last 15 years. Reddit has no value past that, it’s just forum software (see also: digg.) Not sure how it’s going to shake out, but I know that I went viewing daily and commenting often to… nothing. The official app is not getting added to my phone, the mobile website is outright hostile, and it honestly just feels gross to launch the main website. I’d rather just search for gems on lemmy or kbin or mastodon and engage on that.

      • Poob@lemmy.caEnglish
        131·
        1 year ago

        Yup. I haven’t logged in since Boost went down and don’t intend to. Except when a link takes me there and auto-opens the app.

        That said, while it’s fun and informative to talk about how bad Reddit has become, I hope Lemmy can move on soon and just start being something different rather than constantly being smug about Reddit.

        • Archer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I still have 12k+ comments made over 15 years I need to delete, then I’m gone

        • bboplifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
          06·
          1 year ago

          I thought the same as you until I checked and saw that /r/programming is back. That is a professional resource whose merits outweigh the ideological ramifications

          • shiftybits@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            1 year ago

            It’s mostly blogspam and gpt generated “articles” and has been for years. Some of the language specific subs were good though.

    • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      The subs I have witnessed (although it is difficult because I did delete my account in protest of the API changes), are all full of Astroturf and Ads and are no longer usable.