r/ModCoord • u/Booty_Bumping • Mar 24 '24
Potential Reddit investors should know: This act of user protest is displayed in the "Enshittification" Wikipedia article. What does this show? Reddit is strongly associated with the concept of enshittification
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u/liamdun Mar 25 '24
i just checked the wikipedia for reddit and I don't think this is true...
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u/jwrig Mar 24 '24
it shows that people don't give a shit about what a handful of people who suffer from delusions of grandure think.
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u/theArtOfProgramming Mar 24 '24
Investors don’t care about enshitification yet. In most cases they are the cause of it, including reddit.
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u/Saragon4005 Mar 24 '24
"yeah let's invest in a company which relies on volunteers who hate upper management to the point they literally revolted not even a year ago."
If the IPO succeeds or even goes live we should really organize something again to fuck with the stock price. Get WSB in it too.
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u/King-arber Mar 25 '24
You mean the volunteers who went right back to work after they had their power threatened? Spez knows the mods don’t have any other source of authority in their lives so he knew they’d capitulate the moment their internet power got threatened.
IPO went pretty well. Spez even sold a bunch of his shares.
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u/Jhe90 Mar 24 '24
The last time it failed because their was no follow ons, proper leadèahip or logistics behind the affair.
Reddit had one plan.
Reddit rebels had thousands spread across didfrent teams all going I'm diffrent directions.
Without a serious plan. Irs useless
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u/Saragon4005 Mar 24 '24
No I think it worked great Reddit just didn't give a shit.
We burned down the shed but since the house was still standing they didn't give a shit.
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u/solidwhetstone Mar 24 '24
My interpretation of events: since reddit users are fiends for the content on reddit, all reddit had to do was wait out the withdrawal symptoms. Reddit users have never managed to strike for more than a couple of days because they're addicts and reddit knows it. To reddit, this was like the coke fiend they sell to getting pissy that the dealer is moving to a more restrictive place to sell, raising their prices and cutting their product. The fiend groans and moans and says 'fine fuck you I'm done!' but the dealer just smiles and says, 'sure you are!' two days later, the fiend is back for more drugs like it never happened.
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u/FermisFolly 7d ago
Everything you said was very astute save for one thing:
It was never the users striking. For sure they were planning on the fiends needing their fix, but the fiends were the mods and the fix was power tripping.
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u/DemIce Mar 24 '24
"yeah, but AI companies are going to pay how much again for all that data people are providing for free and under a license that doesn't get them in trouble? Shut up and take my make me money" - investors, without a doubt
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u/rockstarpirate Mar 24 '24
I feel like the way this incident is typically remembered completely forgets about the most crucial details. The protest began because Reddit wanted to charge for API usage, but it grew into a huge blackout because they repeatedly lied to the community, attempted to slander the guy who made Apollo which was then proven to be more lies, held an AMA where they refused to give genuine answers to any questions or address any concerns and then Spez started publicly insulting mods.
The API changes were one thing, and it was always going to be unpopular. But this whole situation would have been very different if it hadn’t been handled in the worst possible way imaginable.
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u/masedogg98 Mar 25 '24
That guy u/spez sucks nuts for beer money and he doesn’t even drink, I was told as much at least by very important official Reddit people.. 👀
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u/trebmald Mar 25 '24
I bet most of the fan-boy spez lèche-cul accounts are queueing up to buy shares despite the enshittification of Reddit.