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?

  • Frost Wolf@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    If not the fear of losing power, maybe the fear of losing followers. After all there’s no guarantee that the ordinary reddit user will go through the trouble of creating another account. The fear of starting over might be a deterrent into leaving. Just look at the mods who ended their protest because they will be replaced by reddit.

    • Morose mammal@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      I get that, but it is irrational. They can plan such a thing, esp. when they do it in concord consort. Just prepopulate the new lemmy communities with some content, ask some regulars/power-posters to become active first. Then setup a site that simplifies the signing-up tot lemmy/kbin and make a big announcement before you abandon reddit. Sure, at first the amount of people will decline. But as Reddit will have problems assigning new mods to all those big subreddits the quality over there will go down further. It won’t be an easy or even fast switch, but sometimes it’s best to just start over.