People on reddit say the blackout is pointless, but it brought awareness to reddit's shitty behavior towards its community. Of course the 2 day protest would not bring down reddit, but it showed they don't care about the community concerns by not changing their stance at all. Why would I continue using that site then? These recent events have made me feel like not using reddit anymore so I won't.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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A lot of it is due to some lack of information, and a lot of news outlets only telling part of the story.
I was seeing stuff on CNBC, Reuters, and Louis Rossman and stuff on youtube talking about the protests, and everyone one of them leaves out critical information. Some people see it as moderators being upset about losing tools, others see it as third party app developers being upset about having to pay a fee to reddit. But they leave out that moderators are volunteers and arent paid to moderate, and would have to pay to be able to do so from a third party app. Or that reddit is asking for a ridiculous amount of money in less than a month for app developers to access their APIs. Overall theyll talk about a few points but miss on others.
It creates a lack of a sense of urgency or meaning to all this. "Regular people" think no one wants to pay reddit and get stuff for free, or that mods are power tripping.
But theres still 15 days before apps shut down and then people may change their tune once they cant access reddit using their favorite app of choice.
When inevitably the next fuck up afflicts reddit, and it will, those of use who already converted to lemmy or whatever will have made and even better home. Each time it happens, the alternatives will be made stronger, and reddit will come back weaker.
In other words the person admits to being ableist as the API change is killing apps that help those with disabilities, unlike reddits app