ManamaKhan@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoTwo of the biggest Reddit communities reopened in the funniest way possiblelockwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1351arrow-down16file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1345arrow-down1external-linkTwo of the biggest Reddit communities reopened in the funniest way possiblelockwww.theverge.comManamaKhan@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square28fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
All posts on r/pics and r/gifs must now be about comedian and Last Week Tonight host John Oliver after users voted.
minus-squareGraphine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·1 year agoI feel like the ONLY way this could work is if all the big subs collectively agreed to go this route. As it stands though, you’re still giving Reddit traffic.
minus-squareEnglishMobster@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up17·1 year agoThe point is to make the site less useful and thus drive users off of it. Admins have made the point that subs will be opened whether the mods like it or not. But mods can still control the topics of subreddits. Thus now the rules are changing to make the frontpage stale and drive people off of Reddit. Already /r/pics has mysteriously fallen off of /r/all.
I feel like the ONLY way this could work is if all the big subs collectively agreed to go this route. As it stands though, you’re still giving Reddit traffic.
The point is to make the site less useful and thus drive users off of it.
Admins have made the point that subs will be opened whether the mods like it or not. But mods can still control the topics of subreddits.
Thus now the rules are changing to make the frontpage stale and drive people off of Reddit. Already /r/pics has mysteriously fallen off of /r/all.