Well that went just as I expected it to. The admins are still the admins. Theyāre the top of the power totem and thatās that.
Honestly this protestās only purpose shouldve be to raise awareness of alternatives and tell people āwere leaving Reddit, and this is where weāre goingā while we still can. Because Reddit is private property, and therefore will always be subject to the whims of its admins - regardless of how people believe it should be run of if people think it should tolerate protesting against the platform on the platform.
Everyone shouldāve been aware that this protest could only have been temporary.
Sure we reminded them of the power we possess, but theyāve essentially reminded us that they possess more, and can remove that power regardless of how the community feels. Admins are and have always been at the top.
No one had any illusions about how this was going to go. The point was making them do it. The point was forcing Reddit into a PR nightmare just before their big IPO. The point was giving this platform traction. The fact that this post exists on this platform is proof that the mods succeeded. Sure, Reddit is still huge.. but with entire mod teams being replaced with Spez bootlickers it remains to be seen whether they can maintain what they have, or if this is Digg all over again.
It's hard to predict what will happen, but I'm here, and you're here, so something is happening.
I don't think reddit will die, but they definitely hurt themselves. The fediverse grew by leaps and bounds over the past week, reddit drove so much traffic to their potential competitors. Then when the 3rd party apps die, they'll lose some more.
Reddit is gambling on gaining enough revenue from pushing people on 3rd party apps to 1st party that it makes up for the loss of users overall.
People on reddit say "Why do we care about 3rd party apps, it's such a small section of the userbase" But apparently reddit cares enough about that small section of the userbase that they need to push them to their own app.
We'll see in a few days what the people end up choosing. I'm not going back unless demands are met, but I do have a tiny glimmer of hope that the people will let it go as apps disappear, and a slightly larger glimmer of hope that it'll just kinda shrivel over the following months and years.
But, in all likelihood, people are dumb, and spineless and ignorant, and will continue to make spez money and the durability of the site will endure. It'll be worse, but not worse enough for the vast majority of normal people to not use it. I have hope, but it's simply hope in the face of my ever growing misanthropy.
Doing absolutely nothing meaningful about inflation is why our next president is going to be an overt and unapologetic fascist. (Granted, theyāll come up with a better name for it.) The foreclosure crisis and Obamaās failure to address it properly is what got Trump elected the first go-around.
The recession happened in 07/08 under Bush. Obama didnāt take office until January 2009. Trump won because these two private parties control everything about our election process and one of them put up a candidate that almost nobody liked to the point that a failed businessman and reality TV star was somehow more appealing.
It doesnāt matter when the recession started. When you donāt do something about a preexisting problem, it becomes your policy.
Millions of people lost their homes when Obama was president, and Democrats were somehow shocked that people who lost their homes wouldnāt vote for someone campaigning on continuing Obamaās policies. (Policies that included criminalizing the poor and demonizing Occupy.)
This is a pretty shit deal tbh. Ooohh ad free browsing and some free pngs you can tack onto your avatar or comments.
It sure is convenient that the second they kill third party apps they push a subscription model for ad free service on their ad riddled, barely functioning appā¦
Hey, my first repost on lemmy! This is shamelessly lifted from r/pizza crimes a few weeks ago. And the top comment there was about gerrymandering too! This is a big moment for me, I think Iām officially a lemmian.
And thatās how we know this post was probably fake. Another point, in order to cram that box in, they would need to put in considerable effort. No. UPS. Driver. Is going to put this effort in.
This reminds me of staying overnight at a friendās house when I was a kid, and discovering a slightly sinister family habit, like cutting pizza with scissors or everyone drinking hot tea with dinner
I cut my pizza with kitchen scissors. My knives arenāt sharp enough and I donāt have to transfer it to a cutting board. And drinking warm water with a meal aids in digestion :D but I donāt do that lol
Iām just shocked at how bad that offer is, 6 dollars a month just for ad free browsing? Damn. All the other ābenefitsā seem completely worthless to me.
If Reddit wasnāt going downhill I wouldnāt mind paying to not see ads - if it helps keep the site running. But 6$/mo is very excessive for what is essentially a forum + link aggregator.
Disney+ for comparison isnāt much more expensive and I feel that I get a lot more value out of that, not to mention streaming isnāt cheap.
can anybody please tell me why lemmy wont be regulated or commercialized like reddit in the future? which safety rules are installed in the lemmy ecosystem to guarante freedom and democratic rule changes?
Iām ashamed to admit Iām a former reddit premium member. I canceled my subscription after being a paying member for a number of years the day Spez started his bullshit. I just canāt see myself going back. I just need to find an instance for my country thatās actually active.
I loved Reddit, and I still love Reddit. I love so many little communities. And although I am persuaded that the fediverse is the future, I would go back in a heartbeat if it managed to regrow a soul. I happily paid for premium back in the day.
I use uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock for YouTube and I havenāt seen an ad in ages. When I do see an ad, itās because Iām trying to browse on somebody elseās computer.
SponsorBlock in particular is life changing. You donāt realize how much nonsense filler is in these videos. You can easily cut a 10 minute video from a mainstream YouTuber down to like 6 or 7 minutes worth of content if you skip intros, skip recaps, skip sponsorships and product plugs, and skip interaction reminders.
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