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?
They have ads in boomer mobile games now saying you can get REAL gaming advice from REAL gamers. This tells me they’re hemorrhaging users and don’t care about the quality of user they replace them with. I haven’t been to that shithole site in like 3 years except for the odd search result to a post about a very specific topic. I shudder to think what the front page must look like by now.