For better or for worse, spez was correct in claiming that this will just blow over.
People in general are shit at boycotts, redditors doubly so - there’s barely any group cohesion or leadership there.
The people who see an issue with reddit’s current behavior have left, the others will just keep going on a much shittier platform. As it has ever been.
Yeah reddit likes to talk a big game but generally speaking they’re not very good at sticking to anything. You see it a lot in the various gaming subreddits too, whenever a company releases a broken/underwhelming game. They’ll spend about a month saying “this is the worst thing to ever happen, this is the end of the company, I’ll never buy another thing from them as long as I live” and then a month later it’s all just memes of people playing that game and a year or two later it’s full of hype for the next one.
For better or for worse, spez was correct in claiming that this will just blow over. People in general are shit at boycotts, redditors doubly so - there’s barely any group cohesion or leadership there.
The people who see an issue with reddit’s current behavior have left, the others will just keep going on a much shittier platform. As it has ever been.
Same as it ever was
Yeah reddit likes to talk a big game but generally speaking they’re not very good at sticking to anything. You see it a lot in the various gaming subreddits too, whenever a company releases a broken/underwhelming game. They’ll spend about a month saying “this is the worst thing to ever happen, this is the end of the company, I’ll never buy another thing from them as long as I live” and then a month later it’s all just memes of people playing that game and a year or two later it’s full of hype for the next one.