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Really funny and impossible to block

  • FiendishFork@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I hope more subs do stuff like this, the Steam sub is trying to be about literal steam but the mods don’t seem to be officially endorsing it yet (users are running with it though)

    If Reddit is serious about communities moderating themselves they shouldn’t have a problem with subs becoming useless if that’s what the communities decide they want. I feel like it’s going to provide Reddit another way to show that they are liars though.

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    1 year ago

    While this is funny, it drives traffic to the site so it’s the equivalent of people buying Nike shoes to then burn as protest. The company is still making money and they’re getting free advertising.

    A better protest would be to delete Reddit accounts, uninstall the apps, and see how long you can go without hearing or thinking about reddit.

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      1 year ago

      In the short term, sure

      But in the long term, the novelty will wear thin and people will find the content they want elsewhere

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        1 year ago

        I started learning to use photoshop instead of braindeadly scrolling Reddit. It’s more peaceful and enjoyable.

    • Yoshizuki@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      This is what I did after the disastrous AMA.
      Deleted my history with reddact.
      Uninstalled Reddit.
      Uninstalled Apollo (crying).
      I won’t go on this platform anymore.
      Although I’m missing some ‘niche’ communities such as antkeeping or those about specific incremental games…

      Now I’m trying to filter all the communities that are on this topic.
      Even if it’s on the fediverse, speaking about Reddit gives them more visibility.

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      1 year ago

      This. If they insist on doing it make it so all of the posts have to be the same. It would be boring and pwolw would stop visiting… The sub is open but there is no reason for people to visit it. It makes it easier to ween people off of reddit too

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    1 year ago

    This is pretty funny, but I still think it would piss investors off more if there was just a mass influx of gay porn without nsfw tags in every sub after the mod tools break. Hard to get advertisers that way. 🤷

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      1 year ago

      What would really piss off investors is if nobody used the site. Posting memes to and visiting the site you’re trying to protest doesn’t achieve anything.

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    1 year ago

    Oh, I like this even better. I hope a lot of other subs do this as well. Wonder what r/feedthebeast would look like.

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    1 year ago

    Why do you want to advertise for Reddit protest on Lemmy ? I mean I understand if you want to protest because you want Reddit to stay as it is, but then why go on Lemmy to do that ? If you want to come to Lemmy that’s great, but with this kind of post it more looks like you are staying hère just waiting for Reddit to be black. No offense here, you do whatever you want, but I’m juste wondering why you would do this ?