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Wait....aren't you Marco?

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Have to admit, as someone who exclusively uses Reddit either through the website on a computer or through the official Reddit app on my phone, I could care less about these changes that seemingly have most of the user base up in arms.

Kinda reminding me of the last days of Digg, when I didn’t understand at all why all the other users were upset, but reluctantly decamped to Reddit along with everyone else.

Bottom line though, from Reddit’s CEO to Elon Musk to, from our own history, the owners of “TheScoreBoards” or “Scout/Fanhome”—too many of these guys don’t seem to have a clue that their websites are worthless without all the users that provide the site’s content for free. So if you’re doing something that’s obviously pissing them off…maybe swallow your pride and reverse course?
 
LeafGm said:
Have to admit, as someone who exclusively uses Reddit either through the website on a computer or through the official Reddit app on my phone, I could care less about these changes that seemingly have most of the user base up in arms.

Kinda reminding me of the last days of Digg, when I didn’t understand at all why all the other users were upset, but reluctantly decamped to Reddit along with everyone else.

Bottom line though, from Reddit’s CEO to Elon Musk to, from our own history, the owners of “TheScoreBoards” or “Scout/Fanhome”—too many of these guys don’t seem to have a clue that their websites are worthless without all the users that provide the site’s content for free. So if you’re doing something that’s obviously pissing them off…maybe swallow your pride and reverse course?
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The power of the social media platform is largely mythical. It's the userbase that matters, and as you said, it's pretty fucking transient.

"Here's 10 reasons why we totally could never be the next myspace"

- Some tech CEO whose wealth depends on not being the CEO of the next myspace
 
I'm assuming Reddit is basically trusting that no other platform is going to be able to handle things, and they didn't expect that people would almost care more about their app than the platform itself.

In the end it will probably blow over, because it's not like Reddit is forcing a subscription model on people. Just means you have to switch over to a worse app. Most of the protest now is basically people having fun with a protest that they don't have to do anything for. But give it another day and people are already needing their fix of terrible Reddit content (Reddit is basically where I am when the boards here are quiet and Twitter has nothing useful to say).
 
UWHabs said:
I'm assuming Reddit is basically trusting that no other platform is going to be able to handle things, and they didn't expect that people would almost care more about their app than the platform itself.

In the end it will probably blow over, because it's not like Reddit is forcing a subscription model on people. Just means you have to switch over to a worse app. Most of the protest now is basically people having fun with a protest that they don't have to do anything for. But give it another day and people are already needing their fix of terrible Reddit content (Reddit is basically where I am when the boards here are quiet and Twitter has nothing useful to say).
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concern is not just having to deal with a worse app, it's the amount of ads we'd see.
 
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