Reddit's collaborative art project seemingly has one overarching message to Reddit's CEO.
    • fearout@kbin.social
      50·
      1 year ago

      Publications like these lower reddit’s future valuations though. I’m not sure whether a two-day uptick in users is worth that. My guess would be that it’s not.

      • Cubes@lemm.ee
        10·
        1 year ago

        This is what I see as the true value of these “protest” messages above just “more user engagement” since it seems like more eyes on negative press does more damage than the plus of “a few more users interacted with our site for a few days”

        • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.one
          5·
          1 year ago

          Agreed. People keep saying that investors can be bamboozled by numbers of any kind, because they are not familiar with Reddit, because they don’t understand the technology, etc etc, but investors do know how to read, and a lot of them also know how to read the room. They might be rich scumbags who don’t understand the internet, but I am willing to bet that a lot of people who might be interested in buying Reddit understand people, and therefore, understand that you can’t run a business that defines itself as an online community when you have pissed off a whole lot of the people who make up that community.

      • Pechente@feddit.deEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        And I wish they did. With all the „fuck spez“ and 3rd party app grief, people do surprisingly little to improve the current situation and link to Reddit alternatives.

    • megane-kun@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Unfortunately, in the same breath as that mention is them saying erasing that is the work of users. There’s enough evidence to suggest it’s the admin’s handiwork. Some people elsewhere mentioned that those “random” dots do not have a user attached to it.

      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        1 year ago

        The random noise appeard nearly instantly after the guillotine was completed, there is no way regular users caught on to that that fast.

        • megane-kun@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Even if we give it the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe a group have waited until the guillotine have finished to strike back, it would have been traced back to actual users if they were indeed actual users.