I just love how pervasive the hate is. Like, you know you fucked up when something like this can coalesce and unify around a single message.
Really says something.
It does feel ultimately kind of meaningless though. I remember going through this with Ellen Pao. She made all the unpopular decisions the Reddit board wanted to make anyway and rode away into the sunset. Just a fall guy essentially. Feels like we’re going through the same motions with Spez.
Man, I don’t know. I know this is just a personal anecdote, but around my friend circle, I haven’t gotten a single share from reddit in over a month when we used to send links back and forth daily. Those same people have said they haven’t visited reddit in a month, other than the rare checkin on the drama.
I’m sure the significance of the impact is relatively small, but I’d also guess many of those that left were heavy users and contributors. I’ll go over there to check every few days and have noticed the content quality is significantly worse than 2 months ago.
That said, it is also very possible this whole thing blows over and the million or so of us that left are meaningless in reddits overall lifespan.
To be clear I don’t think it’ll blow over. The site is definitely worse off than it was before. But I do think it’ll continue instead of collapsing. It will just turn into something completely unrecognizable compared to what it was. Imagine Tumblr or Imgur.
It will just turn into something completely unrecognizable compared to what it was.
Completely agreed. Reddit won’t die, but it also won’t be the “front page of the internet” as it was from 2016-2022 or so.
Wow guys here’s a great idea let’s go on this app we said we were done using and fill it with traffic so that the CEO can say people are still using it so their changes had a minimal effect.
Come on people, the same thing happened when Musk took over Twitter. Stop using the fucking app if you don’t like it, Spez doesn’t give a fuck if you send him hate, because you’re lining his pockets in the process.
Look at it this way, if someone went up to you, handed you a dollar and told you to fuck off, would you care? Of course not! You’d take the dollar and fuck off!
Really glad to see it
A Reddit spokesperson declined to comment about this year’s edition of r/Place, telling Polygon via email “redditors are going to reddit.”
Honestly, that’s probably the best response he could’ve given.
Giving the site massive amounts of traffic in attempt to crowdsource a another 100x30 pixel “Fuck Spez” banner. Spez must be getting pads on his back for this.
A burst of traffic doesn’t mean much if it doesn’t stay. It’s a safe assumption that most people participating in “fuck spez” already had an account, so they aren’t getting many new users from this.
All of those protesters that went to Reddit for the last week to engage, generate ad revenue, and ultimately benefit Reddit, really showed them. Idiots.
Yes because if I’m an investor I see an uptick in engagement and don’t ask a single question about it. I invest blindly based solely on numbers not on news articles blatantly posting issues with the CEO. I DEFINITELY want to invest in a company that. A.) Has a CEO who is mired in controversy B.) Has communities dedicated to taking engagement away. C.) Has an uptick in use once a year for this event, which is undermining the companies ability for engagement longterm.
