So I’ve seen a few posts regarding news outlets calling the protests a failure, and I don’t really think that’s the case. The protests have clearly made an impact, especially if the Reddit CEO is willing to oust MODS to reopen subreddits. I truly believe that something has been jump started here on Lemmy, Kbin, and all of the fediverse. What happened on Reddit has simply pushed those already on the fence, or looking for other social media platforms to jump ship. I truly believe the impact is greater than what the media and Reddit in general want us to believe. Something has started here on the fediverse that simply cannot be stopped, all we can do is inform others and show why it’s the future of aggregated news boards and social media.
The big thing that everyone should understand is that there seems to be no negotiation … no middle ground … either you stay on Reddit and you suck up all the advertising or you don’t
I wasn’t quite sure what to do and I drifted in and out of my account for a while and thought protesting, sharing memes or trying to circumvent rules or something … then I just realized … the worst thing anyone can do to a social media site is to simply just stop using it at all
Once you abandon Reddit, you’ve done the most damage you could possibly do
Social media is built on human participation … of all kinds, positive, negative, hateful, loving, inclusive, exclusive … it doesn’t matter what the participation is, as long as you participate
So once you leave … you’ve severed a section of the site to let it die … if enough people do the same, the rot of users abandoning reddit will turn the site into an empty billion dollar shell that will quickly become worthless