Redditors Gave Up

The reddit blackout was like when a child threatens to leave home and the parents just let it happen knowing full well they’ll be back in like an hour.

You really got to hand it to Reddit's CEO. He stuck to one idea, found every excuse for refusing to budge, and blamed Redditors for all of Reddit's problems. He really is a Redditor, through and through.

The only thing that frustrates me is the fact the CEO laughed in their face, literally saying "Nah trust me, they're addicted, they'll be back in a few days" and these dudes proved him right. He must have the biggest smug right now, ugh...

This is truly incredible. He somehow managed to employ union busting tactics-against a group of people that weren’t even being paid.

Reddit mods were just given the greatest opportunity they'll ever have to prove the "Reddit mod" stereotype wrong, and instead they reinforced it. Truly poetic.

Asking a Redditor to stay away from Reddit for more than 48 hours is like asking a Twitter user to stay away from spewing an awful take for more than 48 hours.

I think this is a good example of the danger with monopolies. If Reddit had a good competitor, all users would have left for it and Reddit would have inevitably backed down. This was a prime opportunity for a platform to position itself as competition to Reddit.

I used Reddit daily and after the 48 hour blackout I realized I don’t need it. Since the reddit ceo hasn’t reversed their new policy I’ve decided to quit using their site. The only productive use was keeping up with national and local news, but I’ve just switched to Apple News. I also switched to twitter for sports stuff and left everything else cause it was a waste of time. After leaving Reddit I can finally touch grass, thanks mr shite CEO

they were so kind to give that 48 hour deadline

This could've worked, but redditors are not willing to feel powerless for more than 48 hours.

I left Reddit over this and honestly my mental health has significantly improved over the last couple weeks lol

I’m so glad Reddit is imploding. Maybe without it they’ll have to learn how to ACTUALLY have a conversation with someone you disagree with.

This basically was a chance to prove the Reddit stereotype wrong, but power is a hell of a drug.

Redditors not being able to stay away for 24 hours is a perfect example of why Facebook will never fail no matter how much people claim they hate it and will leave it

I have so much respect for the subreddits that stayed blacked out. The ones that didn’t suck

I actually stopped using reddit at all. No, I'm not a moderator, or anyone special. I'm a simple user, less than a digit on reddit's spreadsheet. But what for me started as a protest against the removal of 3rd party apps lead to me finding out how addicted I was to scrolling that f*cking app. Just dropping it altogether made me discover how much free time I was wasting to the "online engagement monster".

Y'know, for a platform that's supposed to be full of "intellectuals" they really didn't think this protest through very well

This is actually hilarious. Not only did it not work even a little but they actually just proved to the CEO he could do whatever the fuck he wanted by proving they are so easily controlled.

Do note that for a lot of these subreddits, they're being opened back up so that they can continue protesting. r/Pics and r/Gifs, for example, both now only allow John Oliver. This is definitely a better outcome then those mods being replaced with anti-protest mods who wouldn't allow protest material at all.

Yup he’s not wrong. I remember in one of the Reddit subs a mod was like “we can’t close this sub because a lot of people depend on the information from it”. I was like “People can live without Reddit trust me 😂”. After some backlash they closed only for 1 day and no one was impressed with them 😂. These mods wholly believe that their subreddits are like the most essential thing in the internet and that no one can live without them. I can’t blame anyone for hating them because they take themselves and their subreddits way too seriously.