When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit’s community won’t ever be the same.

“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”

  • Fu3go@kbin.social
    16·
    1 year ago

    Regular users don’t care about the mod drama. The real backlash will start on July 1st when all the apps stop working.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
      10·
      1 year ago

      I hope the real thing is more just stop doing their volunteer work. I hope spam and bots run amok, NSFW gets posted everywhere, reports to unanswered and people devolve into screaming matches.