I don’t think it’s necessarily newsworthy as they’ve stated they would do that since the beginning of the uprising. They would be silly to sit on their thumbs while losing communities with millions of subs to protest. Open it, recruit a few people that could care less about 3rd party access and keep raking in that dough.
While this is logical it completely destroys their image and the whole point of volunteers creating these subreddits/their now selectively chosen guidelines they follow only when it benefits them 😆
To go into more detail on the point of their image being ruined they were all about community and what the community wanted/being more transparent then this shit happens 😂 joke of a company
I completely agree with you but I think that the majority of Reddit users don’t care and in 6 months time, this debacle will be completely forgotten by them and revenue will have completely recovered. I don’t think I’m being cynical about it, I’m just going by past cases(FB, Twitter, etc.). The majority of users simply don’t care.
The interesting wrinkle is not necessarily about “the majority of users” caring. It’s whether the content creators and moderators care to the point that the people bailing on reddit are drawn largely from the people who actually produce value.
If 80% of reddit users just browse or post one liners and 20% are the mods and users who generate the content and keep communities from going off the rails, that would be roughly in line with what we’d expect in an online community. If the people bailing out are mostly coming from that 20%, then post and community quality will decrease, which will eventually decrease users and other KPIs. That was the point of the blackputs and demoderation protests. I deleted all of my posts on all of my accounts before leaving for that reason.
The 80% might not care about the abstract, but when content falls off, they’ll find another site. It’s like Reddit: The Muskening
I don’t think it’s necessarily newsworthy as they’ve stated they would do that since the beginning of the uprising. They would be silly to sit on their thumbs while losing communities with millions of subs to protest. Open it, recruit a few people that could care less about 3rd party access and keep raking in that dough.
While this is logical it completely destroys their image and the whole point of volunteers creating these subreddits/their now selectively chosen guidelines they follow only when it benefits them 😆
To go into more detail on the point of their image being ruined they were all about community and what the community wanted/being more transparent then this shit happens 😂 joke of a company
I completely agree with you but I think that the majority of Reddit users don’t care and in 6 months time, this debacle will be completely forgotten by them and revenue will have completely recovered. I don’t think I’m being cynical about it, I’m just going by past cases(FB, Twitter, etc.). The majority of users simply don’t care.
The interesting wrinkle is not necessarily about “the majority of users” caring. It’s whether the content creators and moderators care to the point that the people bailing on reddit are drawn largely from the people who actually produce value.
If 80% of reddit users just browse or post one liners and 20% are the mods and users who generate the content and keep communities from going off the rails, that would be roughly in line with what we’d expect in an online community. If the people bailing out are mostly coming from that 20%, then post and community quality will decrease, which will eventually decrease users and other KPIs. That was the point of the blackputs and demoderation protests. I deleted all of my posts on all of my accounts before leaving for that reason.
The 80% might not care about the abstract, but when content falls off, they’ll find another site. It’s like Reddit: The Muskening
These articles are so helpful. Keep finding new Lemmy’s to join! Fuck Reddit.