How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
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Users were outraged, but Reddit mostly won.

How is reddit post protest, did it really win over protesters? Did the ones who left make a dent? Or like all things before, did it ultimately do nothing?

  • ooterness@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    In the grim darkness of the 21st century, there is only advertising. For more than a hundred centuries Spez has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Reddit by the will of the gods, and master of a million subreddits by the might of his admins. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand moderators are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die.

    • Frost Wolf@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      As he sat on his golden throne, his empire growing and diminishing in its own weight, new gods and empires rise and fall, his very legacy cast to the forces of chaos as the sons and daughters of his mighty but rotting Imperium fought amongst themselves. And as he watched satisfied from his divine city, the hungering investors, devourer of worlds and empires, crept ever closer, waiting for the most opportune moment to strike, to feed its never ending hunger for profit.

    • graphite@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      1 year ago

      He’s a product of the digital landscape that we live in today.

      Reddit has improved considerably over the years.

      As much as I personally don’t want to use their app, they’ve done a reasonable amount to actually clean up the site.

      The old Reddit had a lot of garbage and a lot of garbage people. This will help to prevent that from being an issue in the future.

      There’s probably always going to be some kind of groupthink circlejerk happening in the background; it’s annoying and gives reddit a bad name, but it’s usually harmless.

      • 100@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I’m sorry but no, reddit has consistently gotten worse over the years, to the point that I can’t possibly imagine what you mean when you say it got better.

        • graphite@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          The userbase has become more of a PC mob that continues to regurgitate the same stale words, but that’s my only real gripe with it.

          The moderation has improved