How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
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Users were outraged, but Reddit mostly won.

How is reddit post protest, did it really win over protesters? Did the ones who left make a dent? Or like all things before, did it ultimately do nothing?

  • eee@lemm.eeEnglish
    52·
    1 year ago

    It’s too early to say I think. We all think the most active posters have left but only time will tell if the content left on reddit is sufficient.

    • Bel_Shamharoth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      48·
      1 year ago

      Yep, it’s going to take a few months for the spam bots to really take control of the default subs. There’s still several subs’ mod teams who are in active standoffs with the admins about the NSFW tag, and I believe there’s still a large amount of lesser known/popular subs that are either still completely inaccessible or in read only mode.

      • dogebread@lemmy.worldEnglish
        301·
        1 year ago

        And time for the Lemmy apps to mature, which is happening at a staggering rate.

        The people here now are most willing to deal with the friction but as the ecosystem matures and the content grows, I would expect word of mouth to help maintain some steady growth even with no additional Reddit drama.

      • Terevos@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Yeah I took a bunch of my subs private again on July 1st and haven’t had any more messages from the admins.

    • Matte@feddit.itEnglish
      26·
      1 year ago

      I’m going back to Reddit from time to time to check the situation and read some micro-communities that i follow and that did not jump the ship.

      I gotta say that my previous feed was deeply tailored between interesting discussions, tech and gaming news and some meme and futile discussion (like askmen or aita).

      right now, that fine calibrated feed has become an uninteresting mess of memes, reposts and low-quality content. I see that users are still there because upvotes are still high, but it’s not as interesting as it was before.

      this might very well be my own perception based on who i followed, but I got the feeling that reddit got taken over by people who only enjoy low-quality content, kind of like facebook, where I used to enjoy discussions with my friends and now it’s just ads and influencers.