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?
Because Reddit got exactly what they wanted. Smaller subs, including my own, died. Larger subs had their mod teams replaced with Reddit employees or volunteers who follow blindly for free. The only people left on Reddit are bots, ignorant users, new users who don’t know the difference, and the losers that agree with what the corpo bullshit did despite it making their experience noticeably worse.
It’s incredible how right you are, I left reddit after 4 years just last month, in these years I’ve seen reddit becoming Facebook and the process was so sad and macabre.
Like a dead corpse that is still moving.
The amount of BS, false claims, exploits and every kind of toxicity I’ve seen there is astonishing.
People ragebaiting other people so their admin friends could ban random people for the fun of abusing power.
People literally defending corporates with false information that you can just search on google and see it’s a false claim.
It’s unbelievable