Y’know, if they had walked everything back - or even just reduced API costs - right away, no one would have left. Now their top content creators have left, and nothing they do will repair the damage.
An even better strategy for Reddit would have been to prevent Spez from making public statements about it. If the protestations had been ignored it would have blown over quickly.
If they had just shut the fuck up and not said anything, they could have plodded forward with all their changes and the protests would have fallen apart anyway. Without any reactions, or any sign we were doing anything, the protestors would have turned on each other for lack of an obvious external enemy.
But little piss baby Spez took it way too personally for that.
Y’know, if they had walked everything back - or even just reduced API costs - right away, no one would have left. Now their top content creators have left, and nothing they do will repair the damage.
I’m all in on this fediverse thing to the point I’m (looking at) self hosting as many alternatives as I can.
The big boys forgot the number one rule of the internet … don’t mention 4chan … The internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it
I’m spending as much time here as I did on Reddit. I’d like to see a bigger python community and military spouse community, but that’ll come I’m sure.
They brought gasoline to a house fire, and now are wondering what happened.
An even better strategy for Reddit would have been to prevent Spez from making public statements about it. If the protestations had been ignored it would have blown over quickly.
If they had just shut the fuck up and not said anything, they could have plodded forward with all their changes and the protests would have fallen apart anyway. Without any reactions, or any sign we were doing anything, the protestors would have turned on each other for lack of an obvious external enemy.
But little piss baby Spez took it way too personally for that.