I don’t think users are powerless. All these shenanigans are hurting Reddit, otherwise they wouldn’t be trying so hard to shut it down.

I think it might feel like that because Reddit made a sadly rare good decision in deciding to stay quiet and out of the press, as it casts doubt on how effective dissent is.

But it’s clear from the continued pressure on mods and the fairly drastic action to arrest the nsfw trend that the fallout is way worse than they anticipated and they’re just doing damage control.

It’s working, keep at it.

There was any research made for this video?
Cleary there wasn’t.

• There are more apps for Reddit than Apollo
• The protest didn’t stop after 48h, is still going
• Admins forces subreddits to re-open
• Subreddits mods where replaced
• Subsreddits change tactics to protest
• There’s a bunch of more apps for Android than there are for iOS
• Didn’t mention what subreddit was u/spez moderator in 2008

Slashdot was becoming too toxic, I moved to reddit.

Reddit wants me to use their obnoxious app, I moved to Lemmy.

Reddit is a business. If they can survive doing what they see fit, good for them.

I moved on. Life goes on.

Consumers are never powerless, if a company does something shitty you don’t like with their product stop using the product. Companies are always tied to profitability, they will always try to maximize profits and milk it’s users as far as they can without losing them. If consumers fought back with their dollars by not consuming, then companies would stop. If 60% of reddit stayed blackout untill the change was cancelled, spez would have to give in. That’s why there is so much effort to fragment everyone, it’s the only to stop the majority from realizing the power they hold.