I remember when Reddit announced it would begin charging commercial developers for access to its API, and in response, thousands of subreddits went dark in protest. I think it lasted for a couple of weeks. The CEO threatened the Reddit mods that he would replace them if they didn’t reopen the subs, so nearly every mod reopened and everything went back to normal. The CEO won easily without offering anything, and he was right when he said that ‘this too shall pass.’ Those third-party apps offered accessibility features for disabled people that Reddit still hasn’t implemented today. Now Reddit is getting even worse. How come there wasn’t a protest like that when they made even worse decisions?
I used to be a mod for r/streetwear (millions of subscribers). Before the blackout we’d constantly be getting posts throughout the day. Now when I lurk, I see 2 posts a day on average, sometimes none. The community is dead compared to before the blackout, but they didn’t migrate to lemmy. Maybe they shifted to discord or just quit reddit-like social media, idk.
P.S. shameless plug for !streetwear@lemmy.world 😋
I don’t know anything about fashion but joined anyway.
Haha appreciate it 😁
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