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

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?

  • quazar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Reddit went from the 5th most visited website in the world to the 20th. That’s not nothing.

    Lemme put on my tin foil hat for a second and say that this degrading of reddit was just in time for it to go public. It could only go up from here.

    I can’t predict the future, but I think this whole federating thing is good. The internet and its traffic was too localized. The people don’t want to keep being sold.

    Now if we could somehow get everyone that uses a site like this to actually PAY - say - $1 a YEAR, the internet would be better for it.

    • Fract@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Didn’t they set server donation goals at one stage and the community of reddit were more than happy to contribute money?

      • sndrtj@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        There was this bar for years that said how much more donations they needed per month.

      • Thetimefarm@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        The person who runs lemm.ee has a sponsor option on their github page. Idk if that’s standard practice, some pin the info at the top of their instance.