When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit’s community won’t ever be the same.

“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”

  • Elysium@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I hope Redditors don’t cave and cease protesting, clearly it’s working if Reddit has to force subs to reopen.

    • Michael Kazarnowicz@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Same here. I’m trying to find other ways to support the protests. The community I’m moderating there will migrate over to here (yay!) but I don’t expect more than a couple hundred to move. I will keep moderating the community over there (because we’re a gay community and a safe space for trans men which is sorely lacking on Reddit), but I’ve deleted the app from my phone and only use old.reddit.com with uBlock origin to make sure I’m not contributing to Reddit’s bottom line.

    • Smellmop@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I haven’t been on since the 10th and I was on it near constantly before that. If reddit sync isn’t going to be around 10 days from now then I have no plans to use the site anything like I used to. I literally have no desire to learn their crappy app and lose the curated experience I had set up for myself. The only redditing I plan for the future is googling for specific questions in niche communities.

      • Elysium@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        The only redditing I plan for the future is googling for specific questions in niche communities.

        Same, though you could possibly find some non Reddit answers to your questions