Rule 1: All Posts Must Be About Vacuum Cleaners
Rule 2: All Comments Must Be “Wellthatsucks”

Really funny and impossible to block

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    1 year ago

    I think instead of mods trying the active protest they should just do passive protesting. Do bare minimum of work and let users (read trolls) post whatever they want.

  • 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

        Too useful, unfortunately.

        r/trains should probably become NSFW, considering how that’s IPO-unfriendly.

        (Contemplating which kind of thing I mean by NSFW trains is left as an exercise for the reader.)

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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

      As another commenter said elsewhere, it’s more nuanced than that. It drives a bit of traffic in the short term, but people interested in the original content are forced to create new subreddits (which take significant time to gain momentum again). And the gag will eventually taper off and engagement will be lower. Overall, it’s a decent form of protest (given the blackout is being forcibly overturned), as it will likely lower the value of Reddit overall, hopefully nuking the potential IPO.

      Though that doesn’t invalidate your second point. Kinda fun to watch a dumpster fire for a little while, though.

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      1 year ago

      It depends, how long until it will not be fun anymore to see every sub turned into a meme?

      I give it 2 days. After that people will stop tuning in as regularly.

      Also traffic != money in regards of advertisers.

      If traffic increases but the engagement lowers then that is a death blow to reddit.

      The metric that got posted 1-2 days ago that engagement was cut down from 31 to 17 seconds during/after the blackout is huge and a metric the advertisers will look at.

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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

        Exactly. It’s all funny now, but an entire site full of useless posts will quickly become useless. Reddit’s repository of niche info & knowledge was it’s value … not so much endless pics of vacuum cleaners, things to do with steam vapor, and John Oliver (as sexy as he is).

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        1 year ago

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

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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

    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

      Don’t even need porn. Just have a wave of spambots poised and ready. There’s a non-zero chance many of the big moderation tools will break, and moderators using the site/official app could be overwhelmed, and I’d not be surprised if some spam/repost bot operators were waiting for precisely that moment, because the mods would be more limited in what they can do/use.

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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 ?