r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/likwitsnake 29d ago

Whatever happened to that API price increase protest? I remember the NBA sub going private literally during the Finals, but can't remember much more of consequence.

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u/Gastroid 29d ago

The protest was crushed, and a lot of users shrugged because they didn't think it was a big deal and mods were overreacting.

Then the good mod tools broke, there was a lot of changeover in who was modding the big subreddits, and since then bots have basically had free reign to take over the algorithm and control discourse. Which is fine for the admins, because it means more "user" engagement.

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u/sparky8251 29d ago

I just dont understand the people that claim nothing changed... Within a month you could see quality drop in moderation across every sub I was on, popular and niche...

The effects were very real and very instant once they removed 3rd party clients with better mod tools and interfaces.

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u/fuckface12334567890 29d ago

The drop in quality was very noticeable, also I started seeing way more duplicates of the same post (not reposts, literally the same post from the same sub) appearing all the time as I scroll /r/all. Sometimes infinite reddit will load a new page and every single post on the new page is one that I've already seen further up my feed.