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/r/Conservative is going to save Reddit
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this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Is there a reason why they're doing this? Blackout's not even political. They just want to be contrarian to everything.
I assumed the idea was to fill reddit with trash content. A lot of subs didn’t go dark, so flooding the homepage with trash content will pollute the existing experience.
Going dark fulfills a whole bunch of objectives, filling up with trash is one of them, it's fewer eyes seeing ads because less content keeping people scrolling, people subbed to subreddits that went dark are getting a stream of messages saying the execs at reddit fucked up and are providing alternatives like discord and Lemmy, and anyone who even dabbled with fediverse relates stuff like mastodon are getting messages and emails capitalizing on the mass Exodus saying hey come to limmy, we're like reddit but decentralized.