What if the whole "2 day blackout" was engineered to allow admins to test some new features with a protest being a convenient excuse?

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[–]magnora7 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Also free advertising, literally every news media outlet is talking about reddit right now.

Yet so few are actually talking about reddit alternatives, and how to actually leave the reddit plantation.

[–]GoblinJ 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

That's because they're all talk. No one is going to leave reddit, even if third party apps get banned, they are too far gone into addiction.

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I think some people who a 3rd party app is their only access point, might leave for good, especially if they're already on the edge of leaving.

[–]Dorkfishie 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Especially since said people use 3rd party app's accessibility features that the Reddit app doesn't have.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Unfortunately that only cleans house and eliminates the kind of users reddit doesn't want participating.

[–]Ragnar_Lothbruk 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's me!

[–]MaiqTheTrue 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That’s the funny part. They’re all screaming at Spez for calling this a minor hiccup, but, tbh, it is. It’s barely a protest because you told them you’d be back. Not in a week, not when Spez did the right thing, but in two days. Spez ain’t stupid, he knows there won’t be an exodus, because they can’t go a full week without their fix.

[–]Ragnar_Lothbruk 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If I can get that same fix on here, I absolutely will.

[–]MaiqTheTrue 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Kajiit has wares if you have coin. Lol

Honestly I like this place better because I’m not trying to find a topic before so many people have spammed memes and one-liners that I’ll never be heard. I feel like I’m having a conversation, and I think that’s much better than shouting into the void on Reddit where commenting on a thread after the first minute is pointless.