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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1190537

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?

  • Biscoot@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    Yeah reddit won. But the whole fiasco led me to lemmy which I like much more, so they can have their cake

    • sab@kbin.social
      7·
      1 year ago

      Lemmy and Kbin won.

      Reddit came out of it possibly still standing, but obviously weakened in many ways compared to before. Meanwhile, over here there’s now a bunch of activity and the development and servers seem to be well funded. And we (the Fediverse) didn’t even participate in the fight - it was all Reddit punching itself in the face.

      The consumers also won, as we now have viable alternatives to choose from.

      Maybe the fact that Reddit is still alive and active could be considered “winning”, in which case Musk’s Twitter is also “winning” every day. But that’s one hell of a low bar for what should be considered a victory in a fight you yourself started.

      • rynzcycle@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yup, imagine starting a fight, after which the other person beats you with a baseball bat a few times and just kicks you while your down for a while and eventually gets bored and walks away… And then you get up and declare, “I Won!”