Lenna 🔞

1. Reddit removed the ability for moderators to shut down subreddits the same way they did in 2023.
2. New Reddit users outnumber Old Reddit users. The new folks never got a taste of the pre-enshittification era, so this is just the norm for them.

The issue is that most people aren’t aware that their data is being sold, or they just don’t care at all. And by 2023, most people on Reddit were using the official app, not 3rd party apps (according to the subreddit stats of the subreddits I used to moderate). So for most people, the 2023 API change wouldn’t have affected them at all. It only would’ve affected older users and some moderators.

What can reddit do in order to create an outrage big enough to make people leave or to boycott the platform?

It would have to be a disruption that would affect:

• most users
• in a very negative manner
• in a very obvious way

Not only do you need to do all 3, you need to do it simultaneously in order for the users to rebel. So Reddit nowadays have chosen to implement negative changes in smaller parts. AKA boiling the frog alive.

According to what’s said on Fedecan:

If a user from instance A sends a private message to a user from instance B, only the admins of instances A and B will be able to see the message. This is required to deal with spam and abuse.