About 4 people at work Monday discovered the blackouts and learned the reason from following Google results. I’d say that shows the effectiveness of the protest. That’s 4 individuals that I work with personally who wouldn’t have known otherwise about the api problem that now do. I can only imagine how many people are in that same boat.
For those 4, reddit was a tool not a community, so they weren’t major users and even if they never visit reddit again, reddit will likely never notice. However, it does raise awareness that reddit is being greedy and that their IPO is a bad thing for the world. As such, it devaluates them. This puts pressure on reddit to respect their community and content creators, which is the only thing they have of value.
About 4 people at work Monday discovered the blackouts and learned the reason from following Google results. I’d say that shows the effectiveness of the protest. That’s 4 individuals that I work with personally who wouldn’t have known otherwise about the api problem that now do. I can only imagine how many people are in that same boat.
Now that they know, what happens next?
For those 4, reddit was a tool not a community, so they weren’t major users and even if they never visit reddit again, reddit will likely never notice. However, it does raise awareness that reddit is being greedy and that their IPO is a bad thing for the world. As such, it devaluates them. This puts pressure on reddit to respect their community and content creators, which is the only thing they have of value.