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By definition the protest will always be meaningless, because ultimately the vast majority of users don't care. Reddit can weather this storm because most of t
by Zetice 3y ago
By definition the protest will always be meaningless, because ultimately the vast majority of users don't care. Reddit can weather this storm because most of the people who they make money off of are confused about what this is about and when it blows over will be otherwise ambivalent about all of it.
This was never going to work. Mods should have used this moment to get paid (percentage of ad revenue generated by the sub they moderate), not throw a tantrum about API access.
- BizarroLand 3y agoThe people who care will move on, the people who don't can play with the leftovers. It's fine. People still use MySpace after all. Over time, the newbies will start to realize that they're using a hollowsite and start looking for more substance, and they'll come find us wherever we happen to be.
- Zetice 3y agoYeah, and "wherever the community happens to be" will be Reddit. Mods have zero control over this.
- BizarroLand 3y agoWhat? 1: You didn't quote what I said, you quoted what you felt like I said. 2: Your wording is ambiguous. It could read as either reddit has already won and there is no use fighting it (which is some malarkey) or that wherever the people gather to have the conversations that they used to have on reddit.com will become reddit (which is weird but ok) Which one do you mean? Malarkey or Weird?
- Zetice 3y agoPeople are really going to miss attitudes like yours on Reddit, because that is the critical part of what makes the community great... Edit: from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. This isn't Reddit, we can both do better. I'm sorry.
- BizarroLand 3y agoScoot on then
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