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Spez has told Reddit staff that the 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.
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.
They can, and probably will, replace the mods I wager
But a bunch of people will be permanently gone by then I hope
Excellent, I can only hope more join them.
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.
Yeah, I noticed the same. All it really showed me was how many subs didn't black out…
Some subs went into restricted posting mode and made it so the only post in the past 2 days is that Reddit is killing 3rd-party apps. I'm not sure how you are expecting r/all to actually look. Even if every major subs closed their doors forever, as long as there is any activity on the site r/all will be populated.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For sure. I feel the same way. I feel like I've developed hobbies from niche subreddits I've discovered over the years. Makes me wonder what other interests I could get into if I stuck it out. But I won't be doing that with their horrible mobile app, or to be spammed to use the mobile app every time I access the site from a mobile browser.
I've made my peace with it and I'm going to move on.
Yup, I left facebook a couple of years ago and it was hard at the time. Now I'm reminding myself that I don't miss facebook now that time has passed, so I probably won't miss reddit either.