How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
www.theverge.com
Users were outraged, but Reddit mostly won.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1190537

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?

  • DrDickHandler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    An incredibly insignificant amount of users migrated over, yes. Protest failed and got decimated. Reddit won. That’s all there is to it.

    • waitmarks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Migrations take time, it was never going to be a flick of a switch. Reddit content will slowly get worse and worse, and Lemmy content (or some other competitor) will get better and better as more people move. it’s those core users that generate great discussion that matter the most and those people are looking for somewhere else.

    • lagomorphlecture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      The users who left were often likely to be the most dedicated (which is why they were the most butt hurt). This is only the beginning and the exodus will continue and the content will decline, although I don’t know why I’m even telling you this since you’re probably a spezbot.

    • ANuStart@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Reddit: we are going to make our site objectively worse for everyone

      Everyone: fuck you reddit, we will stop using reddit in protest

      Reddit: ok

      Everyone: Oh… Wait… So like I actually have to stop using reddit?

      Reddit: …

      Everyone: Fine, we’ll come back but I am fake mad about it!