When tens-of-thousands-strong communities are voting overwhelmingly in favor of these “malicious” actions maybe we should look at what they are responding to.
Yes it’s intended to hurt Reddit. How else are protests supposed to be actually meaningful or result in any actual negotiating leverage? These subreddits have power in their numbers and they’re just using it.
Yes. Great thoughts.
I saw a comment on a reddit thread recently about the migrations, changes, etc saying (paraphrasing) “Remember how we used to see stuff on reddit and then a week later on other platforms? This place is about to become just another week-behind platform.”
Spez has been pointing out (and clearly justifying to himself) that only a small minority of users are upset with their changes, but that ignores that it’s the mods and content generators - the power users - who make up that small minority. Reddit is about to suck by losing the only thing that made it great. Yes, it’s the content.