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Reddit Communities Switching to NSFW as a Form of Protest (stackdiary.com)
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[–] 28 points 3 years ago (10 children)

I don't think these protest will turn Spez's head and I'm sure new communities will pop up to replace the old ones with time -- but I'm certainly enjoying the show.

Let's just hope Reddit bleeds enough users to make this the new Reddit.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    That's what this is all about. Nobody's trying to change spez's mind. A lot of people were begging for a Reddit alternative for YEARS, now we finally have an opportunity to make one. They could roll back the API pricing tomorrow but for me it wouldn't matter.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    yeah reddit is dead to me. i've always felt that social media sites should be considered a commons where companies cannot profit off of the content

    this was just the catalyst for a lot of people to be exposed to this idea and now the idea is exponentially spreading. we're still in the early days, but I think this is the future. or at least it's one potential future

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    reddit was amazing a decade ago. dunno what all happened but it became a cesspool of toxicity and abuse of power that i was just waiting for another alternative to come along and save us OGs from.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Reddit's always been a mixed bag of good stuff and cesspool toxicity. A decade ago it had subs like r/jailbait and r/coontown.

    Nostalgia remembers the good stuff and forgets the shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    It's not that I don't remember all the trolling that has happened since the Internet's inception (I was there) it's just that it used to have its time and place and people used to respect that, Reddit included. If you didn't want to see the toxicity, you just didn't visit those subs. It only started bleeding into everything else within the recent past.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 3 years ago

    I believe the purpose is not to change spez's mind, we know he won't, it's to scare off advertisers and investors.

    Ads cannot be served on NSFW subs, some ads vendors are already backing off, see how investors are happy about that.

    And yes, it's highly entertaining :D

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It isn't to turn Spez's head, but Reddit's owners.

    I wouldn't be surprised if board members are looking this whole debacle to see where it lands before the IPO. Reddit still isn't profitable, and the killing of API access doesn't seem like it will earn the money to be worth this aggravation. Spez is making a very public bet regarding API.

    And I don't think Lemmy is ready to become the new Reddit. There are still too many foundational issues that need to be resolved that would crush Lemmy in its current form.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    And I don't think Lemmy is ready to become the new Reddit.

    Most definitely not but that's why I'm happy so many ppl already switched and a good bunch of them are directly contributing to the development and content of it, so that we're ready when "the normies" switch over as well, and with that I mean ppl who are in it for the content and don't give a flying fuck about the debacle.

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