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Really funny and impossible to block
I hope more subs do stuff like this, the Steam sub is trying to be about literal steam but the mods don’t seem to be officially endorsing it yet (users are running with it though)
If Reddit is serious about communities moderating themselves they shouldn’t have a problem with subs becoming useless if that’s what the communities decide they want. I feel like it’s going to provide Reddit another way to show that they are liars though.
They should partner with /r/trains, and start posting steam trains.
Too useful, unfortunately.
r/trains should probably become NSFW, considering how that’s IPO-unfriendly.
(Contemplating which kind of thing I mean by NSFW trains is left as an exercise for the reader.)
I think instead of mods trying the active protest they should just do passive protesting. Do bare minimum of work and let users (read trolls) post whatever they want.
This is pretty funny, but I still think it would piss investors off more if there was just a mass influx of gay porn without nsfw tags in every sub after the mod tools break. Hard to get advertisers that way. 🤷
Don’t even need porn. Just have a wave of spambots poised and ready. There’s a non-zero chance many of the big moderation tools will break, and moderators using the site/official app could be overwhelmed, and I’d not be surprised if some spam/repost bot operators were waiting for precisely that moment, because the mods would be more limited in what they can do/use.
Why gay porn?
It irritates the puritans more.
Why do you want to advertise for Reddit protest on Lemmy ? I mean I understand if you want to protest because you want Reddit to stay as it is, but then why go on Lemmy to do that ? If you want to come to Lemmy that’s great, but with this kind of post it more looks like you are staying hère just waiting for Reddit to be black. No offense here, you do whatever you want, but I’m juste wondering why you would do this ?
Why are you commenting on c/reddit on lemmy then ?
Some of us are enjoying the novelty of a dumpster fire for a while.
For those who don’t want to follow the link, it’s pictures of John Oliver in an artistic manner.
While this is funny, it drives traffic to the site so it’s the equivalent of people buying Nike shoes to then burn as protest. The company is still making money and they’re getting free advertising.
A better protest would be to delete Reddit accounts, uninstall the apps, and see how long you can go without hearing or thinking about reddit.
It depends, how long until it will not be fun anymore to see every sub turned into a meme?
I give it 2 days. After that people will stop tuning in as regularly.
Also traffic != money in regards of advertisers.
If traffic increases but the engagement lowers then that is a death blow to reddit.
The metric that got posted 1-2 days ago that engagement was cut down from 31 to 17 seconds during/after the blackout is huge and a metric the advertisers will look at.
Not exactly. I think the advertisers will start to ask some uncomfortable questions, as will any inverstors for the IPO.
I started learning to use photoshop instead of braindeadly scrolling Reddit. It’s more peaceful and enjoyable.
