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### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit was never going to just go away as a result of this. Even if every blacked-out subreddit remained private forever and everyone who was aware of this protest walked away, there's plenty of oblivious users and remaining subreddits to continue operating.

The "win" condition for the protesters is some or all of the following:

  • Give Reddit bad publicity in the mainstream press
  • Cause a drop in ad revenue. Money is life as far as Reddit is concerend.
  • Harm Reddit's valuation in its IPO. Money is life.
  • Help Reddit replacements get established, restoring competition that Reddit thought had long ago vanished. (You are here).

Nothing was going to stop Reddit from going ahead with their API change, all we could hope for was to make it hurt for Reddit. And in that regard I do believe we've scored a solid win. The Fediverse is now competition for Reddit, and as they squeeze and squeeze their users for money over the years to come there's now an escape valve that users can flow out of under that pressure.

[–] kill@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@FaceDeer

My goals in aiding protests were just as you say. I wanted to help consolidate the instances I use, and the communities I use. I've always known reddit will stay there. I don't even think I'm wounding reddit. That beast is too big. All I can do is piggyback some popular posts and get a few hundred to a thousand people to fill up my instance and make me a bit happier about this whole debacle :)

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're a swarm of mosquitoes. We bite Reddit and it's painful, but really the only way we're going to kill Reddit is if in the process of swatting at us Reddit forgets that it's holding a machete in its hand.

Fortunately Reddit shows signs that it is indeed doing that.