Reddit is requiring manual admin approval to make /r’s private, eliminating the main mechanism for the last sitewide protest agains changes to the API.
Who?
That awkward moment when your “public square” turns out to be on private land
What kind of protest worthy change is reddit about to make?
We all should, since many people are “locked” in there and simply do not have the capacity to escape.
Hard disagree. There are also people using Facebook, then complain how they got ads for product x after talking about x casually with a friend. Just stop. They get no sympathy just like the companies didn’t get a pass for making services worse and worse.
There are never going to be viable alternatives if people keep using the worsening services
The only valid protest is just walk away from Reddit.
After a year away from Reddit, scrolling through the comments there is a dumpster fire. Let it burn.
It’s so sad. Reddit still comes up in my search results and I’ll check them out if I’m in a pinch. Most of these results are years old. Rarely ever get a result that’s within the last 2 years.
They were spinning gold.
They could have improved user experience, made better mod tools and built a fucking native app that competed with third party apps.
But nope.
Line must go up.
Their goal at this point is to monetize old user content.
the “sidewide” protest didnt work before so giving it extra measures is worthless anyway