• collin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And we’re doing exactly what they want us to do, giving them attention and clicks.

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      1 year ago

      I’m so tired of seeing this take. And this is from someone who hasn’t opened a reddit link since July 1st.

      Yeah, I agree that we shouldn’t give them traffic. But do you think that the people like us are the ones driving that sentiment of “never forget what they stole”? Believe it or not, there exists a base of users who still browse reddit and want to see change. Those are users driving their engagement regardless of what they do. So why not spend that time protesting or sending a message?

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        It’s such an oversimplification, it’s insane. “YoUrE sTiLl uSiNg ReDdIT”

        I wonder if people with that same sentiment go to picketing protestors and yell at them, “Just quit!!”

        As if the idea of trying to promote change rather than immediately giving up and moving on is anathema to them.

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          I wonder if people with that same sentiment go to picketing protestors and yell at them, “Just quit!!”

          It’s exactly the same energy. Nothing says “this isn’t my problem so let me tell you how to solve it” like saying “so just quit!”

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        1 year ago

        Also, id get that take if this were like, a general news community, but this is literally the reddit news community. Reddit news is why we’re all subbed here right? We all have nostalgia for what reddit once fostered and I think most of us still have a glimmer of hope that it might be a decent place again

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      Articles like these lower future Reddit’s valuations. It lost like 60% of its original price, and I’d guess it wasn’t primarily because users protested, but rather thanks to many reputable tech news outlets covering the shit storm.

      Would a temporary uptick in users be worth it in the long run? I kinda doubt it.

    • foggy@lemmy.world
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      Their user engagement doesn’t drive their valuation as much as their ability to sway public opinion. Reddit is a media company. They are a broadcast machine.

      Tencent didn’t invest in reddit because it’s a good place to advertise their games.

      If reddit users hate reddit, then reddit can’t control reddit users as effectively.

    • malloc@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Placing pixels is hardly giving reddit anything of value. Logging in to an account. Contributing your time, content (posts/comments), and moderating on the other hand is “helping” them build their system.

      Also I am pretty sure bots are ripping r/place up right now, so it’s even more useless. Right now this event is a massive drain on their resources (server/cloud costs). Even as we speak, the instability of reddit is increasing across the site (seeing multiple page errors across the site), and thus decreased actual traffic, and thus decreased advertising revenue.

      Would hate to be an SRE for reddit at this point. Servers probably on fire lol