Technology

1928 readers

7 users here now

Rumors, happenings, and innovations in the technology sphere. If it's technological news, it probably belongs here.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

180

Reddit mods are organizing blackouts to protest against API changes (www.reddit.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

178 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Some of the planned blackouts will be temporary, others plan to shut their subreddits down indefinitely in protest.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@lemillionsocks now look at the size of twitter and the size of the hole its new owner put in it and tell us that can't happen to reddit because of size?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

True, but I agree with lemillionsock's core point. Nothing short of Reddit pulling the plug on the servers will cause 430 million monthly active users to shift in any short time-frame. However, what is likely to happen is a sharp decline in quality as the core content contributors move on, then a slow gradual decline as the remaining users go "Where'd all the content go?".