The community is posting about steam, the water vapor, in retaliation. It's a beautiful thing.
I love malicious compliance.
This is what I want to see from every subreddit that is forcibly reopened. The admins can try and force mods to 'do their jobs', but they sure as shit can't force what can be/gets posted!
Virgin making the sub about John Oliver vs the chad taking the name of the reddit too seriously
I just posted to the steam sub about how much I love steam turbines
It's funny, but I don't quite get the point of this. If you are boycotting Reddit then you shouldn't be going there to post about things. If you ARE going there, you are no longer boycotting. Reddit doesn't care what you post about. You are still participating in the site. It's just driving traffic back to Reddit, which harms the cause.
The point is the lurkers subscribed there are going to get bored of steam pictures and unsubscribe, if it happens to enough subs then a lot of the passive userbase will end up either spending less time or leave entirely. Since the vast majority of users are lurkers, it'll outweigh the number of people creating these rebellion posts and Reddit should see a net loss in traffic. At least, that's what I've gathered. Please don't shoot the messenger if I'm wrong or it's a stupid idea
I'll add that I think another aspect to this is: if the site declines quietly, you'll end up with users shrugging and either continuing to use it or not. Most people don't understand why this matters at all, and if the post quality declines it probably will be a lot like Facebooks decline. People knew it got worse, but the prevailing narrative is "that's just how social networks work, the kids are always jumping on the next thing".
By doing this, it makes it very clear that the mods and power users are pissed by actions taken by Reddit. People are starting to hear about it, but it's not common knowledge.
If people hear "Reddit users protested then left because of Reddit corporate", investors are going to be pissed, advertisers are going to find it less attractive, and (most importantly) when discord or YouTube consider their own anti-poweruser moves (which they're currently talking about) they'll remember "we need to be careful with changes or we'll have a reddit moment"
I think this all started with Musk and his instance that despite pissing off users left and right, he's made Twitter more profitable than ever and only kicked off bots and scammers. It's absurdly unlikely (not like he's releasing numbers and they are deciding to not pay bills).
But by creating that very attractive narrative, other social media companies are looking for their own ways blatantly grab cash
I'm not sure how they are actually anticipating this not to go negatively. If they are pushing active moderators and replacing them, that seems like a PR nightmare waiting to happen on top of all of this.
So done with reddit I finally took the time to figure out how federated platforms work. Just started on kbin, and I've been seeing a lot more of what I actually want to see.
Kbin's been good to me as a replacement so far. I have my nitpicks but I also understand it's very early days.
considering how early it is, this place is very active
I love that it federates with lemmy too. So many options.
The people who care have left. The people who don't care stayed and they obviously won't give a shit. The only way they're going to give a fuss is when the content torpedoes, which it looks like it's already started.
I am ready and armed with Thomas the Tank Engine memes.
I thought spez wasn't worried about reddit's bottomline with these protests?
What a weird way of showing that you're not concerned.
Standard corpo-rat tactics.
Honestly I think all of these subs should just spam the whole spez moderated jailbait thing and have nothing but that in the front page. Even if these subs reopen, they would ruin spez's image even more.
I never thought I could continue to enjoy reddit after what they did to Christian Selig and the other 3PA developers, but all this malicious compliance is delicious!
all this malicious compliance is delicious!
Indeed.
If Reddit Inc's tactic is to pry open private subs and inject patsy mods, then there is only one thing left to do: deface them to destroy their utility.
steam should be about water vapor,
piracy should be about swashbuckling
/pics is already nothing but "sexy pics of John Oliver"
/gifs is similar
I’m only going on there to support stuff like this, at least until Apollo is turned off. Then I’ll mostly be here.
but there are users advocating changing the sub to be about actual steam
istg if they do that, itll be one big ass troll to the reddit mod team 💀
Fuck
but there are users advocating changing the sub to be about actual steam.
Look at posts in the last 10 hours, they all are lol. Yay!
I just broke my protest since the blackout began to see if PCGaming was still closed and it is. Nothing but respect for that team. Hope they see it through until reddit decides to go nuclear. I'll gladly create a new account to shit all over the new version.
This will definitely leave r/lostredditors really confused
I thought spez wasn't worried about reddit's bottomline with these protests?
What a weird way of showing that you're not concerned.
What does it mean to force a sub open? Did Reddit remove the mods ability to make the sub private?
The mods said in a pinned post that they were given the option from reddit to re-open or have the mods removed: https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/14bvwe1/rsteam_and_reddits_new_policies/