Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

2 years ago by zabadoh to c/redditwasfun

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.

mrfriki 38 points 2 years ago

The only valid protest is just walk away from Reddit.

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Skyline969 20 points 2 years ago

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

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CosmicTurtle0 18 points 2 years 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.

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Crackhappy 8 points 2 years ago

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

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solsangraal 8 points 2 years ago

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Fallofturkey 6 points 2 years ago

Done

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u_spez 5 points 2 years ago

Agreed.

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FourPacketsOfPeanuts 30 points 2 years ago

That awkward moment when your "public square" turns out to be on private land

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ogmios 3 points 2 years ago

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BossDj 2 points 2 years ago

And free public land is visible just a few yards away, but you'd rather pay the toll because you don't feel like moving, even though your toll is used to fuel unethical endeavors.

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ApeNo1 12 points 2 years ago

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AceBonobo 10 points 2 years ago

What kind of protest worthy change is reddit about to make?

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metaStatic 5 points 2 years ago

and more to the point, who cares?

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Eheran 2 points 2 years ago

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

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Creat 2 points 2 years 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

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Eheran 1 point 2 years ago

That's frequency illusion and not actually anyone listening to what they talk.

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billbasher 6 points 2 years ago

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

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db2 6 points 2 years ago

Who?

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witty_username 4 points 2 years ago

I think he's played by Rowan Atkinson

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Mandy 2 points 2 years ago

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EndlessNightmare 1 point 4 months ago

Time to make Reddit's future impossible. If you know anyone still on there, get them to leave.

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thebudman420 1 point 9 months ago

Isn't it funny that if they would have listened to protestors and not screwed the users that reddit would have been protected.

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