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Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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The biggest Reddit communities are in open rebellion. Twitter is, charitably, a mess. Twitch started taking a full 50% of the revenue of their top creators, who are furious. What's going on? What's the bigger trend that's causing all these platforms to go so user-hostile?

Interest rates

Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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post #19

The biggest Reddit communities are in open rebellion. Twitter is, charitably, a mess. Twitch started taking a full 50% of the revenue of their top creators, who are furious. What's going on? What's the bigger trend that's causing all these platforms to go so user-hostile?

no more free money

Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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post #19

The biggest Reddit communities are in open rebellion. Twitter is, charitably, a mess. Twitch started taking a full 50% of the revenue of their top creators, who are furious. What's going on? What's the bigger trend that's causing all these platforms to go so user-hostile?

The end of free money from the fed?

Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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post #19

The biggest Reddit communities are in open rebellion. Twitter is, charitably, a mess. Twitch started taking a full 50% of the revenue of their top creators, who are furious. What's going on? What's the bigger trend that's causing all these platforms to go so user-hostile?

Interest rates go up.

Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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It seems to me like this is turning into a subreddit migration in slow motion. A lot people still want to post content and a lot of people still want to read content, so what's happening is people are posting it to the less popular 'alternative' versions of the popular subreddits and those posts make the frontpage instead. It seems like there is a noticeable decline in quality but i'm still seeing quite a bit of post…

Yep, I'm seeing smaller subs being bubbled up on my front page. Maybe people will start creating their own subs.

There is Saidit https://www.saidit.net/ but it's not really a viable alternative.

Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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"Let's use Reddit to promote boycotting Reddit!"

Why is that a bad idea again?

I assume as long as people keep going to reddit (for whatever reason, does not really matter), reddit can show ads and make money. Reddit will only start having problems once the visitor numbers go down. So far (?) that seems not the case.

Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is that a bad idea again?

Other people’s opinions are surely different than mine but… I think the subs that have gone dark actually made Reddit better. It’s all the popular subs, and that’s the really low effort, frankly, basic bitch comments. For me, in protesting they’ve improved it.

I've been trying to fix first layer adhesion issues on my 3D printer and all of the relevant subreddits went private.

So there's more subs participating than just the popular ones.

Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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It seems to me like this is turning into a subreddit migration in slow motion. A lot people still want to post content and a lot of people still want to read content, so what's happening is people are posting it to the less popular 'alternative' versions of the popular subreddits and those posts make the frontpage instead. It seems like there is a noticeable decline in quality but i'm still seeing quite a bit of post…

Also most people don’t really care about the API/3rd party app thing. It doesn’t impact them and it looks from the outside like a bunch of dorks with no lives getting worked up over nothing.

I’ve been on Reddit since the digg migration and I’ve never felt the need for an app, old.reddit.com and Adblock works perfectly fine on the phone. Better than Reddit’s mobile site.

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