-41 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)
What would it do though? I'm all for solidarity and sticking it to the man but will this actually prick Reddick, at all?
I mean, they wont lose any money, right? Maybe a few hours of bad publicity but people will move on?
Its not like people will stop using Reddick out of principle, its the only place that is less Human Brainshyt (like twitter, facebook, 4chan).
It still shyt, but not major social media shyt, lol.
Comment by mediaisdelicious at 08/06/2023 at 21:26 UTC
29 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I mean, they wont lose any money, right? Maybe a few hours of bad publicity but people will move on?
It depends on what Reddit users do. If people stop *browsing* reddit, then reddit ads get fewer views and fewer clicks. Indeed, this is one of the reasons why they want to kill some of the APIs since they allow certain readers to feed reddit content without ads. So, sure, us closing a sub probably won't hurt *unless* doing so changes traffic patterns or, at least, threatens to.
Also, as the coordinators have suggested, this short blackout might be a prelude to a longer one. After all, if the API changes do some of the things that we're worried about, they may actually make moderating /r/philosophy just infeasible for us. This isn't just a bit of performance on our part.
Comment by Bennito_bh at 08/06/2023 at 23:57 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I am 100% off this app on June 30th. The basic reddit app is so horrible I can’t stand it.
There are many who will not go through it to access the content here, so until they fix that their userbase will decline. 3rd party app usage on reddit atm is massive
Comment by thamanwthnoname at 08/06/2023 at 22:05 UTC
-13 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I’m sure bud light and target thought the same thing