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How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though? (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How is reddit post protest, did it really win over protesters? Did the ones who left make a dent? Or like all things before, did it ultimately do nothing?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yup, that's the point. Most of the people who moved away from Reddit are the people who spent the most time there interacting and contributing to content, and those are the most affected by Huffman's crap. (edit) Most of the people who remained are lurkers, and if a platform only has lurkers, then who's producing the content? It's obviously an hyperbole, but it skews the userbase even more towards having more lurkers than posters, and it sets a trend.(/edit)

To be honest, I didn't even use any 3rd party Reddit apps (even though I was a serial commenter on things I had interest) before coming to Lemmy at the beginning of the protests. I only did so out of my own "moral" choice and because I'm a FOSS enthusiast.