How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
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Users were outraged, but Reddit mostly won.

How is reddit post protest, did it really win over protesters? Did the ones who left make a dent? Or like all things before, did it ultimately do nothing?

  • quazar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    69·
    1 year ago

    Reddit went from the 5th most visited website in the world to the 20th. That’s not nothing.

    Lemme put on my tin foil hat for a second and say that this degrading of reddit was just in time for it to go public. It could only go up from here.

    I can’t predict the future, but I think this whole federating thing is good. The internet and its traffic was too localized. The people don’t want to keep being sold.

    Now if we could somehow get everyone that uses a site like this to actually PAY - say - $1 a YEAR, the internet would be better for it.

        • hackitfast@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          1 year ago

          I’m hoping this is the direction we go, and I think it will be, though if the Fediverse ever overtook private social media, I’m pretty certain the tech companies would lobby to regulate social media, try to regulate who’s allowed to host web servers, or lobby ISP’s to raise bandwidth costs for people who do host web servers.

          • Mikina@programming.devEnglish
            31·
            1 year ago

            Eh, I kinda hope that happens to be honest. I’ve finally got to the point where I just deeply refuse to use any of the large corporation stuff, and if they somehow kill community run social networks, then I’ll finally be free of my addiction that I don’t have the willpower to deal with as long as there’s an ok-enough tempting alternative . Which I know is selfish, but I’d probably help me a lot :D

          • Vex_Detrause@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I find myself not too creative with imagining what are they(corporations) gonna make money off. I like not know what Meta is planning with Threads or what’s next with tech companies. I just have the distrust and reminder to not underestimate corporate greed.

            Your comments and other lemming comments tells me how corporate greed is gonna fuck us next.

          • voluble@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Interesting. Maybe it’s my lack of imagination, but I don’t see how tech companies stamp us out by lobbying, or how web hosting and cloud services can be restricted based on use case. Seems like the genie is out of the bottle on this thing.

      • Thetimefarm@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        The person who runs lemm.ee has a sponsor option on their github page. Idk if that’s standard practice, some pin the info at the top of their instance.

    • Fract@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Didn’t they set server donation goals at one stage and the community of reddit were more than happy to contribute money?

      • sndrtj@feddit.nlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        There was this bar for years that said how much more donations they needed per month.