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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Spez has told Reddit staff that the Reddit blackout “will pass”.

He’s right, it will. And that’s the problem.

A two day blackout means nothing to Spez and Reddit. What it tells them is “we can treat the userbase and developers like shit and they’ll still use our platform for the other 363 days of the year”.

The only thing that will force Reddit to the negotiating table is blacking out indefinitely. Not a single protesting subreddit opens back up until they realise what made the company so attractive to investors in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There are a couple of subreddits that will go blackout indefinitely. I think r/video is one of them, and it's quite big. This can be annoying for the platform.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

As others mentioned, if any worthwhile subreddit goes dark, then the mods will be replaced and it'll be brought back.

Creating some noise works only if anyone is listening and willing to respond and enact change. Absolutely not in this scenario. The sad reality is the vocal ones are in the minority in the grand scheme of things. The 50k people leaving is, probably, pocket change and aren't the ones that the platform is geared towards nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They can, and probably will, replace the mods I wager

But a bunch of people will be permanently gone by then I hope

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Excellent, I can only hope more join them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Being out for a few days or a week could be enough for a disapera to form and go elsewhere. For me, I am finding Lemmy and Mastodon are more usable. If even 1% go to Lemmy or Masatadon, a critical mass might be established and people will stay.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Blacking out indefinitely won't change a thing. Reddit has before and will again, if threatened this way, re-open shuttered subs if they believe it is valuable for their bottom line.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed, but I don't think negotiating is going to do anything. If they were to negotiate, it would likely only work temporarily. They would likely just changes the terms of the deal when it suits them.

I really feel like Reddit is in "pumping money out of the users" mode at their own expense.

Sadly the only solution feels like parting ways with them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Maybe so. It wouldn't be the first time - I've left platforms that have gone downhill before and I'll do it again. But it is psychologically difficult to let go of a site that I've used for over a decade and made so many connections through. That's how they get you I suppose, the sunk cost fallacy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to mention, it doesn't feel like the blackout did anything either. I opened up r/all on Sync just now and it didn't feel any different than it did a week ago besides a bunch of posts that say that Reddit is killing 3rd-party apps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I noticed the same. All it really showed me was how many subs didn't black out…