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How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though? (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years 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] 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Reddit is too big to die quickly (unless they suffer a catastrophic failure), but it's easy to see that it was an inflection point for them, that it's downhill from here. Remember: at one point, it looked like Yahoo Directory and Internet Explorer would be around forever too.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Same for myspace. When was the last time that was relevant?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

They all died due to competitive market pressure. Reddit and Twitter are dying due to managerial incompetence. I believe that Threads will be stillborn due to managerial incompetence, but we are yet to see.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

apparently people are considering a return to myspace. i’ve seen the posts

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In these days of Zuckerberg and Musk, Tom would be a huge win.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For that very same reason Tom said fuck all this, SOLD the whole thing and now lives his life doing whatever the f he wants. No way our boy Tom is about to come back with the whiteboard lmao he's got it good

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Tom was my first Internet friend. I'm glad he's doing well

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I don't blame them.

Join Myspace: Hi, I'm Tom! I'm your friend!

Join Twitter: TUCKER CARLSON SAYS THE LIBERAL UFOS ARE GOING TO STEAL DONALD TRUMP'S HAIR!!!!!

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

Hahaha, it's an interesting point. Myspace does still exist. But it's a shell of it's former self. We can only hope that someday reddit will be too.