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.

    • Skyline969@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      After a year away from Reddit, scrolling through the comments there is a dumpster fire. Let it burn.

      • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        It’s so sad. Reddit still comes up in my search results and I’ll check them out if I’m in a pinch. Most of these results are years old. Rarely ever get a result that’s within the last 2 years.

        They were spinning gold.

        They could have improved user experience, made better mod tools and built a fucking native app that competed with third party apps.

        But nope.

        Line must go up.

        Their goal at this point is to monetize old user content.

      • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        I had an account for 15 years, moderated a number of subs, and I do not in any way regret leaving.

    • BossDj@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      And free public land is visible just a few yards away, but you’d rather pay the toll because you don’t feel like moving, even though your toll is used to fuel unethical endeavors.

    • Ogmios@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      That awkward moment when you realize you helped it happen because you got a chance to chirp at people you didn’t like.

  • ApeNo1@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    To stop Reddit monsters, one, two, three
    Here’s a fresh new way that’s trouble-free
    It’s got Paul Anka’s guarantee

    Guarantee void in Tennessee.

    Just don’t look!
    Just don’t look!

      • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

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

        • Creat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          6 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