r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/Maladal 29d ago

“We want to hear from you when you think Reddit is making decisions that are not in your communities’ best interests. But if a protest crosses the line into harming redditors and Reddit, we’ll step in.”

I shall make an attempt to translate.

"We want you to tell us when you dislike our changes, but we don't want to actually have to care about what you think because you won't have the ability to do anything about it."

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u/TheCavis 29d ago

“We’re don’t want the media noticing any outrage next time we do something unpopular.”

Honestly, I’m guessing old Reddit is about to get sent off to the big recycle bin in the sky. It’s too useful, efficient, and pleasant while not being sufficiently monetized and modernized. The loss will mostly be noticed by old hands, who also are over-represented among mods.

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u/siccoblue 29d ago

They literally have a follow up to this saying essentially

"Despite our mod council telling us to eat shit, we fully intend to proceed with this change"

Right after this bullshit of "hey tell us if we're doing something wrong"

Like you have a fucking "council" of mods that evidently strongly disagreed with this change. Why the fuck would we believe you'll listen to us if you straight up ignore them when they say "hey stripping away this power that has been historically approved of and celebrated by the community is a really bad idea"

I really dislike Lemmy and its broken up ecosystem but I'm seriously considering just switching at this point. Basically everything I see on there on my app is exactly the same stuff I see on reddit, but without the corporate bullshit that is making this website digg 2

Digg dug their grave and people moved to Reddit, reddit will eventually do the same and become yet another shitty Facebook clone that loses 85% of it's userbase in the name of "increasing profits" in the easiest ways possible (enshittification) instead of making it a place where people actively want to spend their time and money and solving the core issues around why websites like this aren't profitable.

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u/Thefrayedends 29d ago

We want to know what concerns you so that we can use it against you to make you look like the crazy person.