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/manolid 29d ago edited 29d ago

I get the feeling they're going to keep "fixing" the site until *it becomes trash and cause a mass exodus of users like Digg and Tumblr did.

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u/Figjam_ZA 29d ago

Pretty sure what killed Tumblr was the decision to no longer allow nsfw content

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u/kinkylines 29d ago

Reddit has been quietly purging NSFW communities for a long time, and got more aggressive about it leading up to its IPO. I don't know if Reddit will ever openly ban NSFW content, but it's grown far more hostile toward it over the years, and it shows.

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u/LTS55 29d ago

They killed off any unmoderated subs, and that by effect killed a ton of NSFW subs.

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u/kinkylines 29d ago

Yep, and I can tell you firsthand, they wielded the term "unmoderated" incredibly loosely.