How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
www.theverge.com
Users were outraged, but Reddit mostly won.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1190537

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?

  • Today@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    I saw that article and i thought, “Reddit won? I lost? That’s funny, because i kinda feel like I’m winning.”

    • Wooly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Nah, lemmy is still definitely the losing option. A fraction of the content for now and you can’t post videos yet, hope that changes.

      • MackerelMore@lemmy.worldEnglish
        28·
        1 year ago

        Whats wrong with posting a link to a video? Video hosting is expensive and YouTube is already a great option.

        • Wooly@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          I’d just much rather it play in app, hoping Boost is able to play links natively without having to open them.

          It’s all about ease of use, I don’t want to click on a bunch of links, it’s easier to scroll, watch, scroll. Also, I haven’t even seen links to videos, video posts are wayyyyyy down.

          • Crudman@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            I agree in theory, lemmy becoming a capable scroll-when-bored service in general is gonna be the thing that increases the user base and retention. But hosting videos is dummy expensive and the fediverse is idealogically opposed to the advertising that would pay for that.

            Offloading videos to YouTube or something similar and embedding them would be just fine for me, I like the idea of videos being on YouTube instead of being kind of orphaned in that liminal, unsearchable twilight zone of Social Media Video Hosting anyway

      • lagomorphlecture@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        It’s all a matter of opinion but personally I don’t like watching videos and don’t care if I can post them. If that’s what you’re looking for in a platform this might not be the best one for you.

        • Wooly@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          You don’t need to watch them, but the possibility to post is still better for the community. The porn side of Lemmy will be a shadow of it’s former Reddit self without videos/ability to play redgifs videos in app. Then you have the dog videos, and then the TikTok videos which you might not like but it’s undeniable they draw a crowd.

          Thing is, with videos, which I’m assuming will come eventually, it will be the best one for me. Most social media feeds are awful, looking at you Instagram, TikTok and Reddit default app. Far too much soggested content.

    • Smoogy@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yeah it feels like a useless competition. They felt the need to be bragging of ‘winning’ against their customers or products. I didn’t come here to win. I came here to not fight with that nonsense.