Spez, and Reddit as a whole is basically counting on most subreddits opening back up tomorrow after the 48-hour period.
Really hope that mods can hold out for longer, make them really panic.
Spez, and Reddit as a whole is basically counting on most subreddits opening back up tomorrow after the 48-hour period.
Really hope that mods can hold out for longer, make them really panic.
If the blackout does not continue I think spez will think he’s won. But I think the real pain will be when third party apps shut down. There will be a loss of users, but that won’t hurt too much. If moderators don’t want to use the official app or desktop site to moderate or decide to leave entirely then reddit could get out of hand. Just look at Twitter - with a relaxing of moderation there has been more trolls, spam, and hate. That type of change may lead to losing the more mainstream, casual user.
The issue has always been that there was no ready made alternative to migrate to in the past. But it’s happening now. places like this one are ramping up. Every time shit like this happens, it’ll drain a few more users away. Eventually reddit will be mainly bots, if they do not change course and alternatives become viable and well populated.
I feel like it is already there. Once, you only had to block user’s like GallowBoob; but now days it’s an endless supply of repost bots. I’ve had to block so many subs from r/all even to look at that. Then you have all the news skewing by mods and other bs stuff going on. I really stick to my home page a lot these days. I remember when r/all would constantly change and now it stagnates with the same 10 posts that bots put on 50 different pages that all came to be when they opened up sub creation to anyone. Just a giant bot circle jerk.