They seriously censoring drawings they don’t like as if that’s gonna stop anyone? What sort of things they been censoring?
Tons of crap like millions of “Fuck spez” all over the place, big ones and small ones, at one point they took up almost a 5th of the visible area. There were multiple statements about never forgetting what was taken from us or joining other social media. There were insults about spez in other languages and a guillotine with a snoo in it labeled Spez
Best to just let them die. The ultimate revenge is not thinking about that site at all. Let them fade into obscurity.
Sure, but that’s something for reddit users to do. There are 63k active Lemmy users monthly, and there are 430 million active Reddit users monthly. I dropped Reddit with the app death, but people are vastly overestimating the direct impact that Lemmy could possibly have on Reddit.
Reddit’s not gonna start dying until the population starts migrating in significant amounts to alternatives, which is probably going to be a little cataclysmic for Lemmy.
Everyone acts like this is hurting reddit. It doesn’t make a fuck what they write on that board, every person who places a dot helps Reddit by being a added number on the user board.
Long term vs short term thinking.
Short term it makes no difference.
But long term it could. People might get annoyed by the lack of content other than protesting and check reddit less. It also keeps the conversation on alternatives like lemmy here.
Also, if reddit believes that the community has genuinely turned against them and will ruin everything on purpose, they might rethink their actions (obviously unlikely).
Sometimes people just like to flip tables out of frustration even if it won’t accomplish much. A lot of angry redditors just want to burn it all down and I hope they succeed.
As an extreme example, if /r/place was truly covered with “fuck spez” 100%, would that be an enjoyable thing for people who don’t care about what’s going on? They’d probably get mad and leave. Which would hurt reddit.
It also costs reddit extra money to deal with all of this.
It’s similar to workers protesting instead of just quitting. There’s a point to protesting and not everything is solved with a simple boycott.
When digg was dying, many people still used digg, but just to point others to reddit. In hindsight, would you say that it didn’t matter since they were still using digg?
They aren’t going for long term as they have show the last few years and more so the last few months… They are pulling a sears and it’s working as planned.
I was referring to your original point being short term thinking.
They probably opened r/place as an outlet for anger; some temporary bad reputation now, so that those who are butthurt will shut up.
They opened it to get more people to adopt their app and new reddit. It’s probably working.
