I personally don’t think the protests are working. But they are getting reddit admins to show they have no interest in the communities on reddit and as a result, are helping push everyone to wonderful new communities that don’t generate revenue for the owners of reddit. So I just may be misunderstanding the goal of the protest, but it’s definitely doing something!
If the protests weren’t working at all, reddit’s admins wouldn’t care and wouldn’t be reacting to those protests. That they’re taking such heavy handed actions to change things would suggest that the protests are working.
That doesn’t mean they’ll succeed in the end. I don’t know. But they’re certainly working to some degree.
How do you define “working”? I think it was pretty obvious from the beginning they were never going to change their minds
However they accomplished
A bunch of negative media coverage
Completely crashing the site
A terrible AMA that showed spez is not a good CEO and the company is not profitable
A select few accessibility apps are whitelisted (for now)
Free drama for all of us
The IPO is fucked regardless of what reddit does next, they are in a lose lose situation. Anyone who thought they would turn around and change their mind is delusional and doesn’t understand how maniacal CEOs work
What a lot of people don’t seem to understand is that there is no turning back. There is no reason for them to keep ANY mod that participated in the blackout or said anything negative about the API decision even if they reopen and try to appease them now. Might as well mutually self destruct
Right, I think this is what people are misunderstanding. Reddit was never going to change their minds. I was hoping that maybe the API prices were negotiable, or maybe they were going high to start with then going lower later to make them look like the nice guy. But in no way were Reddit just going to say “oopsie, our bad” and go back to how it was.
So why protest, then? Well, exactly what you said: if Spez is going to ruin the site, lets help him do it. Let’s create an absolute dumpster fire, let’s demonize him in the press, let’s spoil the IPO, let’s make “fediverse” a household term.
If that is the point of the protest, it’s worked with flying colors. Spez is losing his mind, entire mod teams aren’t just getting kicked out they’re getting out right deleted. More bad press, more people jump ship, fediverse exploding with activity, new Lemmy servers spinning up left and right.
It took Digg about 2 years to shed its users and it’ll probably take Reddit longer than that because I think Reddit has become more entrenched than Digg ever was, but I think it’ll happen. Twitter is a shell of what it was before Elon, and Reddit will become just as big of a joke. From cultural phenomenon to laughing stock in 2 weeks, because of one guys ego. Same as it ever was.
I personally don’t think the protests are working. But they are getting reddit admins to show they have no interest in the communities on reddit and as a result, are helping push everyone to wonderful new communities that don’t generate revenue for the owners of reddit. So I just may be misunderstanding the goal of the protest, but it’s definitely doing something!
If the protests weren’t working at all, reddit’s admins wouldn’t care and wouldn’t be reacting to those protests. That they’re taking such heavy handed actions to change things would suggest that the protests are working.
That doesn’t mean they’ll succeed in the end. I don’t know. But they’re certainly working to some degree.
How do you define “working”? I think it was pretty obvious from the beginning they were never going to change their minds
However they accomplished
The IPO is fucked regardless of what reddit does next, they are in a lose lose situation. Anyone who thought they would turn around and change their mind is delusional and doesn’t understand how maniacal CEOs work
What a lot of people don’t seem to understand is that there is no turning back. There is no reason for them to keep ANY mod that participated in the blackout or said anything negative about the API decision even if they reopen and try to appease them now. Might as well mutually self destruct
Right, I think this is what people are misunderstanding. Reddit was never going to change their minds. I was hoping that maybe the API prices were negotiable, or maybe they were going high to start with then going lower later to make them look like the nice guy. But in no way were Reddit just going to say “oopsie, our bad” and go back to how it was.
So why protest, then? Well, exactly what you said: if Spez is going to ruin the site, lets help him do it. Let’s create an absolute dumpster fire, let’s demonize him in the press, let’s spoil the IPO, let’s make “fediverse” a household term.
If that is the point of the protest, it’s worked with flying colors. Spez is losing his mind, entire mod teams aren’t just getting kicked out they’re getting out right deleted. More bad press, more people jump ship, fediverse exploding with activity, new Lemmy servers spinning up left and right.
It took Digg about 2 years to shed its users and it’ll probably take Reddit longer than that because I think Reddit has become more entrenched than Digg ever was, but I think it’ll happen. Twitter is a shell of what it was before Elon, and Reddit will become just as big of a joke. From cultural phenomenon to laughing stock in 2 weeks, because of one guys ego. Same as it ever was.