Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests

24 Comments

  1. You know what I miss? The old Reddit when you could watch live feeds of people performing music, showing off a skill/craft, letting us glimpse into their day-to-day, that science guy with the microscope, DJs running through their playlists, watching old cartoons, etc.

  2. RandomRedditor44 on

    >“The ability to instantly change Community Type settings has been used to break the platform and violate our rules,”

    What rules does it break?

  3. I get the feeling they’re going to keep “fixing” the site until becomes trash and cause a mass exodus of users like Digg and Tumblr did.

  4. Whatever happened to that API price increase protest? I remember the NBA sub going private literally during the Finals, but can’t remember much more of consequence.

  5. I think Reddit’s CEO and Ajit Pai should be sent to a remote island to live out the rest of their lives 🙂

  6. “We want to hear from you when you think Reddit is making decisions that are not in your communities’ best interests. But if a protest crosses the line into harming redditors and Reddit, we’ll step in.”

    I shall make an attempt to translate.

    “We want you to tell us when you dislike our changes, but we don’t want to actually have to care about what you think because you won’t have the ability to do anything about it.”

  7. Well that last “protests” only achieved annoy the users and make old content that would help people unavailable and Reddit went through with the API changes anyway, so yeah.

    So if you dislike how Reddit is doing things don’t throw a tantrum, don’t make a dramatic speech, don’t hurt or inconvenience other people under the guide of “fighting the man!”. Just leave. It’ll hurt Reddit more and the rest of the users less.

  8. ShaveTheTurtles on

    Meh if they deny it, just stop moderating.  Don’t say you are young to stop,  just stop actually doing anything.

  9. Reddit, this app, has lost the plot. They r taking away everything that made this place cool to be at in the first place. Fuck enshitification, greed has ruined everything

  10. Pour one out for sports subs going dark when they shit the bed in make or break championship or playoff games.

  11. You know what would be a better protest that they could not block easily? Have as many people as possible not login for an entire week. If it was actually organized and successfully executed with a very large amount of users, imagine what that would do to their advertising revenue. Unfortunately, I seriously doubt this ever happened because of human nature and disorganization among other things.