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Additionally, a lot of those that are still public have restricted submissions (mentioned on the page too).
Which I appreciate. My biggest worry about the doom of Reddit is that Reddit has replaced forums for compendiums of knowledge and solutions to problems and that will all go away.
They are hoping people start "forgetting" like they have about twitter. I'm of the impression that reedit's core users are too stubborn and too involved to let this slide. At best this trigger a vote of reddit's board and they oust the idiot that is responsible, and we can hope for a better stance from the next one. Realistically it will probably blow over and people that actually care will move to or create somethin…
Twitter seems to be on a poor trajectory. What Reddit is up to is bad enough, but if the leadership was looking at Twitter and thinking "yeah, let's do that", that would be even sadder.
They are hoping people start "forgetting" like they have about twitter. I'm of the impression that reedit's core users are too stubborn and too involved to let this slide. At best this trigger a vote of reddit's board and they oust the idiot that is responsible, and we can hope for a better stance from the next one. Realistically it will probably blow over and people that actually care will move to or create somethin…
The difference with Twitter is that Reddit's core is moderators. Reddit is moderators. Reddit thinking they can piss off moderators an incredible level of not understanding what makes their company run.
My normie friends who all have instagrams and tiktoks are not on reddit because it's full of "reddit people", and those people are... weird to them. They still make fun of me for being a "reddit guy" despite having deleted my account years ago. Reddit wants to go public, and I think they know that they have to shed that reputation if they're going to be successful with that. They must have known what a shitstorm these API changes would cause, so maybe it's all already priced in, and they're ok with a mass exodus and they have some horrible plan to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Of course, that would completely ruin reddit, but the point is to make money above all else.
7245 out of 7806 subreddits that pledged to go private have gone private. Title makes it sound like Reddit only has 7806 total subreddits
EDIT: Is this even a list of subreddits that "pledged to go private"? Looking at r/askscience, they never pledged to go private, just to go read-only, like r/books. So why are they and r/books even on this list?
7245 out of 7806 subreddits that pledged to go private have gone private. Title makes it sound like Reddit only has 7806 total subreddits
I’d wager that with these 7,245 subreddits “dark”, over 99% of Reddit users are at least somewhat impacted (fairly confident in that) but also that a large minority now face a hardly recognizable front page (hard to put a number on that).
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The difference with Twitter is that Reddit's core is moderators. Reddit is moderators. Reddit thinking they can piss off moderators an incredible level of not understanding what makes their company run.
Is it possible they want to change that? I'm sure the board is aware of how the site works and how important all the unpaid labor is to keeping it alive. But maybe they don't like that? It seems like the most profitable thing for a social media platform is to make it appeal to everyone , and not just "reddit people", for lack of a better term. My normie friends who all have instagrams and tiktoks are not on reddit be…
I’ve seen more than one tiktok with 100k+ likes joking about how they add “reddit.com” to their Google search queries to get real results instead of SEO/sales funnel optimized shit
What's the next play for Reddit leadership? I feel like it's just a "wait and hope it all blows over?". If they don't change, are all of these subreddits going to stay dark? If the subreddits do stay dark, how long will it take before someone creates a replacement that gains enough traction? I'm participating in the Reddit blackout (as a 15y user), and I love to see the collective action, but not sure if it's really…
Only some of the subreddits are going to stay dark unfortunately. The mods are worried that if they stay private too soon, scab redditors will make their own subreddits and take their niche's users.