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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2 (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 years ago (13 children)

The Verge: Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’

There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.

That's an absolutely tone deaf response from spez. The talking points are exactly what I expected and I'm not surprised, but man, whoever's running PR at Reddit is really dropping the ball.

If they do IPO, anyone who buys into it wholeheartedly deserves the deep losses the company will incur long term - it seems no-one on Reddit's leadership team, or anyone egging the company to float, understands what makes their own product tick.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Is he wrong though?

We all know that users are going to come flooding back as soon as the closed subs open again. Reddit has been through controversy after controversy and has only grown in size. The truth is that most people on Reddit don't really care about third party apps, a lot didn't even know they existed before the Apollo dev spilled the tea on his conversations with Reddit. Spez knows this and is counting on it.

For this protest to have any teeth at all, the protesting subs need to stay blacked out indefinitely until Reddit starts negotiating realistically, or they start hemorrhaging users to alternative platforms.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Wrong? No. But leadership is about communication and diplomacy as much as strategy. Short term gameplay aside, it doesn't take much effort to pretend to attempt to placate power users and it doesn't cost anything besides pride to do so. At least Reddit had a half-decent communication strategy with the Boston Bomber debacle - can't say the same with this one.

In any case, whilst you won't get the r/funny's of Reddit going private forever, you do have some big ones like r/iphone saying they're blacking out indefinitely.

It's pretty myopic of the leadership team to think that you shouldn't at least attempt to make an user relations play here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The fact all those private and shuttered subreddits and deleted comments/posts already break a lot of "site:reddit.com" searches is a big deal for their traffic, too.

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