It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.

Reddit is requiring manual admin approval to make /r’s private, eliminating the main mechanism for the last sitewide protest agains changes to the API.

  • @AceBonoboEnglish
    9•3 months ago

    What kind of protest worthy change is reddit about to make?

      • @EheranEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        We all should, since many people are “locked” in there and simply do not have the capacity to escape.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•3 months ago

          Hard disagree. There are also people using Facebook, then complain how they got ads for product x after talking about x casually with a friend. Just stop. They get no sympathy just like the companies didn’t get a pass for making services worse and worse.

          There are never going to be viable alternatives if people keep using the worsening services

            • @[email protected]English
              1•3 months ago

              It might be, but you’ve managed to focus on the single thing in my comment that was just a side note, and tongue-in-cheek as well. You literally ignored my whole point.

              Let’s be explicit: The point is you can’t make the company go into a direction the leadership doesn’t want. “Protests” might have a short term effect, at best. that huge protest on Reddit when they changed API terms and more? Barely anyone actually left the platform. Not regular users, but mods did, making the platform technically worse, but the users clearly don’t notice. Or don’t care enough to leave.

              You can’t make a company that size do anything, not as an individual, not as a group. Maybe as a share holder, obviously. I hope you got some millions to spare.

              You said “we all should care”. What for? What does that do? “Caring” is the activists version of “thoughts and prayers”. It’s saying something, or thinking about something, but has no effect in the real world.

              • @EheranEnglish
                2•3 months ago

                I mean we should care about the people, so help them either move off that platform or change the platform itself. Sorry for ignoring your actual reply.