“You look like a moron if you quote yourself in your bio.” - Lenna@piefed.ca
The issue is that most people aren’t aware that their data is being sold, or they just don’t care at all. And by 2023, most people on Reddit were using the official app, not 3rd party apps (according to the subreddit stats of the subreddits I used to moderate). So for most people, the 2023 API change wouldn’t have affected them at all. It only would’ve affected older users and some moderators.
What can reddit do in order to create an outrage big enough to make people leave or to boycott the platform?
It would have to be a disruption that would affect:
Not only do you need to do all 3, you need to do it simultaneously in order for the users to rebel. So Reddit nowadays have chosen to implement negative changes in smaller parts. AKA boiling the frog alive.
According to what’s said on Fedecan:
If a user from instance A sends a private message to a user from instance B, only the admins of instances A and B will be able to see the message. This is required to deal with spam and abuse.
Thank you for the rule change! I had a post deleted previously and there were some pretty helpful advice in there on how to manage my HDD. Any chance you may be able to restore it so I can look at those comments again?
First step is to make sharing posts easier by integrating something like https://threadiverse.link/.
If I wanted to share your post with my friends, I’d send them the following link: https://piefed.ca/c/asklemmy/p/461864/what-should-we-be-doing-individually-to-increase-lemmy-s-userbase.
If my friends were also on Piedfed.ca, then all’s fine. But if they’re on a different instance and want to comment and/or vote on your post, then they’re fucked. They would have to go on their home instance, look for !asklemmy@lemmy.world, and then search for your post.
I say friend, but this applies to literally everyone here except those who are already on Piefed.ca.
As long as you were happy doing nothing during the winter break, then that’s all that matters. :)
