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  • femboy_link.mp4@beehaw.orgEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    Spez has told Reddit staff that the blackout “will pass”.

    He’s right, it will. And that’s the problem.

    A two day blackout means nothing to Spez and Reddit. What it tells them is “we can treat the userbase and developers like shit and they’ll still use our platform for the other 363 days of the year”.

    The only thing that will force Reddit to the negotiating table is blacking out indefinitely. Not a single protesting subreddit opens back up until they realise what made the company so attractive to investors in the first place.

      • flatbield@beehaw.orgEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Agree. It is not about negotiating. The point is we need a open Forum platform. Usenet use to be that platform, and it got shutdown basically by ISPs that did not want the cost and hassle. Then everything fragmented into separate websites, then it re-consolidated around one commercial platform for each segment. I.E. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, Youtube, Instagram, … That is the fundamental problem. The Fediverse frankly is the only thing I have seen to at least makes a credible try to change that. ALL of these should be decentralized or federated, one or the other.

        Other point I would make, Forums have a lot less network effect then friends networks like Facebook. My point is that less scale is required.

    • vocornflakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Not to mention, it doesn’t feel like the blackout did anything either. I opened up r/all on Sync just now and it didn’t feel any different than it did a week ago besides a bunch of posts that say that Reddit is killing 3rd-party apps.

      • ActuallyASeal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Some subs went into restricted posting mode and made it so the only post in the past 2 days is that Reddit is killing 3rd-party apps. I’m not sure how you are expecting r/all to actually look. Even if every major subs closed their doors forever, as long as there is any activity on the site r/all will be populated.

    • Bobert@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Blacking out indefinitely won’t change a thing. Reddit has before and will again, if threatened this way, re-open shuttered subs if they believe it is valuable for their bottom line.