So I work in marketing and have suggested ads on Reddit for a few campaigns in the past. We were very much on the fence (and ultimately decided against) specifically because Redditors can be very ad adverse. This might honestly be enough to tip the scale and get them to allocate the money elsewhere. Why spend where it might hurt instead of help.
Sure but the messages might just be enough for them to decide Reddit is no longer profitable enough.
Don't think it as boycoting these companies, cause that wouldn't work.
But all it takes is one look at the news (on a very sad example, how target removed pride merch from their stores) to see it only takes a few loud voices complaining for some companies to shit themselves and adress the complaints. Right now, many of them are advertising in a protest / NSFW filled landscape... they may not take a liking to that.
My life has gotten so much better not seeing those fucking "he gets us" ads. Like, fuck you hobby lobby, you bigoted fucks, and fuck you for taking my former religion and bending it over a pomel horse and buggering it three ways to sunday.
In Germany we have the co-op-based Fairmondo who have plans to expand. Feel free to get in touch with them.
I think this is going too far. Reddit isn't doing something SO horrible that we need to drive them out of business by boycotting advertisers. Boycott reddit, 100%, but do we really need to try and punish companies that just do business with them? It's not like Fox News or Twitter where they've directly taken an odious ideological stance, they're just running their business badly. I disagree so I won't be their customer. I'll tell other people that they're doing dumb things with their site and should leave it. But I'm not going to go further than that.
but do we really need to try and punish companies that just do business with them?
Reddit Higher up decisions have massively hurt the community. Mods have been doing massive unpaid work while Reddit was using the data harvesting and ads to monetize. and mods were never allowed to monetize due to ToS.
Reddit has shown, that they really don't value the community at all. This is ugly. It's appropriate to make such devastating actions, as that's exactly what Reddit has done to 3rd App Devs, people needing accessibility features (r/blind), people wanting a clean and compact Reddit experience and focus on content, people looking for one of the few places on the internet for highly quality discussions, mods who have been thanklessly raising a great moderated helpful and enjoying community only to then get shadowbanned by Reddit without possibility to appeal.
I don't know what else to add here.
Reddit doesn't seem to care about their image among the community anymore. But like every company they will listen to where their money comes from.
Poor Inbred!
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Commendable intentions, but I don't think we can make a noticeable dent in... Best Buy, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and the US fucking Army. Sorry guys.
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