Had the subs gone off for longer (2 weeks) or indefinitely, the risk of Google bots dropping links may have shaken things up more. Personally, I don’t see Reddit going anywhere. There frankly is not enough backing for a sustained enough period of time. Reddit knows tomorrow subs who joined for 2 days will re-open.

[–] tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyz 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, I think the people who stay after the blackouts are the ones Reddit wants: the ones least likely to care about being subjected to ads and hostile UI. The ones least likely to leave or protest. The ones with least critical thinking. The ones consuming the most trivial content and guerrilla marketing. The holy grail of any money-hungry social network.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That's true, they're filtering out the people they can't bully around. Smaller population of users but you can be relatively certain about their behavior.

It's like when a scammer intentionally misspells things so that people who are more aware are filtered out off the bat.

[–] row_boat@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully if there is no reaction from spez, a more severe protest will follow.

[–] yankeebobo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Hopefully, but somehow I doubt the same amount would join. Those that are indefinite are not enough.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once I got Lemmy working on mobile I just deleted my reddit account straight up, a two day protest was always a stupid move. The only way to get their attention is permanently stopping the use of the platform.

Unfortunately in order to actually make a dent in anything under capitalism you simply can't partake of it at all.

[–] mikerussell@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I deleted my Reddit account as well. People deleting 10-year-plus accounts will make a larger statement than a couple of days of silent subs.

Reddit has control over granting mod access to new people for rebellious subs. It doesn't have control over my use or non-use of the platform.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, I've had a few different accounts over the years. I tended to delete mine when I hit 100k karma and start over. My last one was barely a year old but whatever, it's gone now and they know why if they read the "why are you leaving?" Thing.

[–] Devadander@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This article and quote is from june 9, before the outages. That said, I agree a planned 2 day blackout is not as powerful as an indefinite strike until plans are reversed

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Here's a thread where mods are announcing that they're going indefinitely dark: https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/148ks6u/indefinite_blackout_next_steps_polling_your/