I remember when Reddit announced it would begin charging commercial developers for access to its API, and in response, thousands of subreddits went dark in protest. I think it lasted for a couple of weeks. The CEO threatened the Reddit mods that he would replace them if they didn’t reopen the subs, so nearly every mod reopened and everything went back to normal. The CEO won easily without offering anything, and he was right when he said that ‘this too shall pass.’ Those third-party apps offered accessibility features for disabled people that Reddit still hasn’t implemented today. Now Reddit is getting even worse. How come there wasn’t a protest like that when they made even worse decisions?


Same as the Hong Kong protests. No leverage, no consequences. Those who could leave did.
I don’t think it’s the same as the Hong Kong protests. No one arrests or beats you for switching to lemmy or not using reddit. The reddit users held more leverage and it was way easier to protest then the Hong Kong protesters.
And yet the rest of the world just moved on. No consequences.
I’m 14 and this is deep comment