The protests worked, and so did moving/editing/deleting our old content. As one person complains,
I’m not here for Reddit, but for the aggregation of niche communities. I follow a lot of obscure manga that have relatively small followings and recently I got into an IT job which opened a lot of technological exploration for me. The worst part about this change isn’t even that we are losing 3rd party apps, but that only members of the communities I frequent are the ones who care enough to protest. Can’t tell you how many times now I’ve looked something up on Reddit and find an answer to the issue I have, only to realize that the community is closed or the post is deleted in protest. Now we are stuck in this limbo where protests seem to have lost their steam, niche communities are being overthrown and killed because of that greedy little pigboy. Seriously, fuck spez.
NSFW was slated to get locked down on July 4th from memory.
But agree, it’s not the specific action, it’s that it’s now going to go to shit and it time to find an alternative.
Lemmy, and surprisingly tiktok have filled the Reddit void for me since the start of the blackout. I know tiktok is a cesspool but it gives me the mindless content while Lemmy gives me the discussion