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What is funny is there seems to feeling of urgency to get data from Reddit even though it's basically the users who are making subreddits private. The protest r

What is funny is there seems to feeling of urgency to get data from Reddit even though it's basically the users who are making subreddits private. The protest really does seem to me like a "cut my nose off to spite my face" protest. Realistically, there are ways to protest that increase costs. Everyone uploading 20minute videos of their wall for example. That would increase costs but not really affect how user's use the site. People want to hit their pockets yet all they can think of "If we don't use it, that'll hurt them" when if it really hurt them they wouldn't allow it. They own and control the site, they can make it impossible to make subreddits private with probably a few minutes of code - just make the process error out for a few days and then remove the error at the start of the request.

w0m 3y ago
> The protest really does seem to me like a "cut my nose off to spite my face" protest. It's a bit of both - reddit exists and is profitable because of user engagement/activity. Reddit is shutting down primary way many (most?) user prefer to access it. The symbolism of making communities dark isn't just to hurt Reddit; it's also to forshadow the state of the apparent NewWorld reddit is ushering in.
- joemi 3y ago
  > Reddit is shutting down primary way many (most?) user prefer to access it. I doubt that most people using reddit use third party apps. I even doubt many people do.
  - that_guy_iain 3y ago
    Apollo has 1.2 million users, 900k daily users. Reddit has 50m daily users. 400m monthly. I would say power users are more likely to use third party apps. But even of the power users it's a percentage.
add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
> What is funny is there seems to feeling of urgency to get data from Reddit even though it's basically the users who are making subreddits private. The reason to archive your content is because (1) you want to delete your account or (2) losing access to a free API will make it difficult to do later. Subreddits going dark is just a day long protest, no one needs to archive content due to that.
zamadatix 3y ago
I think the primary goal here is to make Reddit less useful on your way out, pulling copies of your data for yourself but removing them from the platform is just one good way to do that.

w0m 3y ago

> The protest really does seem to me like a "cut my nose off to spite my face" protest. It's a bit of both - reddit exists and is profitable because of user engagement/activity. Reddit is shutting down primary way many (most?) user prefer to access it. The symbolism of making communities dark isn't just to hurt Reddit; it's also to forshadow the state of the apparent NewWorld reddit is ushering in.

joemi 3y ago
> Reddit is shutting down primary way many (most?) user prefer to access it. I doubt that most people using reddit use third party apps. I even doubt many people do.
- that_guy_iain 3y ago
  Apollo has 1.2 million users, 900k daily users. Reddit has 50m daily users. 400m monthly. I would say power users are more likely to use third party apps. But even of the power users it's a percentage.

add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

> What is funny is there seems to feeling of urgency to get data from Reddit even though it's basically the users who are making subreddits private. The reason to archive your content is because (1) you want to delete your account or (2) losing access to a free API will make it difficult to do later. Subreddits going dark is just a day long protest, no one needs to archive content due to that.

zamadatix 3y ago

I think the primary goal here is to make Reddit less useful on your way out, pulling copies of your data for yourself but removing them from the platform is just one good way to do that.