“The blackouts are not representative of the greater Reddit community.”

he seems really on defensive

  • squidzorz@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago

    From https://www.redditinc.com/blog/https-www.redditinc.com-apifacts:

    As of now, more than 80% of our top 5,000 communities (by DAU) are open

    The 48 hour blackout that was popularized was a complete joke and reminds me of all the corporations that change their social media pictures to pride-themed photos for like 2 days then revert back to not caring at all. Reddit literally did not give two shits about 2 days of ad revenue being gone because they knew it would be back to normal before most people even noticed.

    • Tsunami45chan@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      Once July 1st starts a lot of redditors will move to lemmy or other sites because of the third party apps no longer available. Corporate greed practices should die. Also I won’t be surprise that reddit will add more bots in the comments.

      • OctoMatter@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        With the first blackout, any user who didn’t bother to change remained on reddit. With July first, those on 3. Party Apps will be gone unless they actively surrender by switching to the official app.

        U/Spez might think a majority uses the official app and that nothing is lost on 3. Party users who won’t generate ad revenue anyway. However those users are probably the content creators that make the website worth a visit for all the “normies” that use the official app and costume ads

    • darkkite@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 years ago

      are you aloud to comment. many subreddits took that off. for me i’m still on reddit but only using RES. no more mobile. once old reddit is dead then usage will drop more

  • coldredlight@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    He does seem very defensive, and aggressive. Reddit is all his data he owns so we’re the leaches who just don’t want to pay, he has been so magnanimous to allow us to waste his money all these years with our stupid API calls. It’s amazing they let this guy be the CEO, it’s like he wants to piss people off at this point. Reddit IPO has broken his brain. I was ready to start paying Reddit to keep using RiF when this started, now here I am free from that shitshow forever and ready to spend that money supporting the growth of Lemmy. Incredible leadership from spez.

  • Linnce@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    Damn, he really thinks our posts are his. I didn’t delete my posts or account for the sake of information and google search but that article changed my mind real quick.