I remember when Reddit announced it would begin charging commercial developers for access to its API, and in response, thousands of subreddits went dark in protest. I think it lasted for a couple of weeks. The CEO threatened the Reddit mods that he would replace them if they didn’t reopen the subs, so nearly every mod reopened and everything went back to normal. The CEO won easily without offering anything, and he was right when he said that ‘this too shall pass.’ Those third-party apps offered accessibility features for disabled people that Reddit still hasn’t implemented today. Now Reddit is getting even worse. How come there wasn’t a protest like that when they made even worse decisions?
The infrastructure is there for sure. All we need is a little more scale; a bunch of communities that I would love to partake in more are so close to being self-sustainable once a few more posters pop up. I firmly believe it’s going to happen soon, could be with the next big Reddit mistake really. But it does take one more push.
Got any names of those communities? If they’re interesting, I could contribute