This is a rant post and I apologize but I had to talk about this. Most subs are coming back online and not saying ANYTHING about the next steps. Only a handful of subs are going indefinite. I checked the front page for the first time today after leaving the a couple hours before the day of the blackout and what do I see? Subs are up, and comments and upvotes are up to the general average before the blackout.
I checked r/gaming to see their recent post (WHICH HAS OVER 68k UPVOTES), and I see a comment with over 500 upvotes saying in a nutshell, “You guys need to calm down, they’re a company and need to make money”.
Along with a couple other comments saying similar things. Are you fucking serious? You can’t even have the fucking balls to say, “This is a company that has consistently screwed over its users and I need to take a stand and quit my addiction”? You’re just gonna sit and do nothing? Fuck you. You’re no fucking better than u/spez. You’re all a bunch of fucking hypocritical liars for shitting on spez and the admins while talking about how you’re “done” with Reddit and you won’t support this.
Go touch grass you fucking addicted cowards. I’m glad I made the switch to Lemmy if it means I don’t have to interact with dumbfucks like you.
Actually I’m skeptical about this. There were some other posts pointing out huge upvotes happening during the blackout, and others noticing a surge of bot followers appearing.
So I’m not sure that I trust those numbers at this point.
The other point is - it’s too soon to tell. But if advertisers and investors start having second thoughts about Reddit then that hurts the IPO.
The key isn’t in how many subs come back or how many folks return. It’s about getting Reddit’s attention by affecting what they care about most so that they have to start listening to their users again.
Too soon to tell, but that just means that at this point in time, it’s not a failure. Have hope!
With potentially hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, reddit would 100% fudge the numbers with vote manipulation and bots.
I dunno - isn’t that essentially a jail sentence if uncovered? Misleading of investors?
Misleading investors is only illegal if you get caught. /s
All jokes aside it’s actually very difficult to prove “misleading investors / defrauding investors” in court.
Didn’t stop the robo-comments to the FCC about net neutrality…
Read some posts here today as well about mods who got removed and replaced so some subs could be reopened. Just word of mouth, but wouldn’t put it past the admin team. Read a news article today about some effects being felt by advertisers, so could be a mitigation effort in some part.