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There Was An Attempt

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There Was An Attempt, and they failed.

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[–] mizu6079@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like restricting communities is better than making them private as it still stops traffic while not withholding information from people who actually need it

[–] Ech@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's still a benefit to Reddit, though. I'm torn, because Reddit's archive of threads is a great trove of information, but to hit them where it hurts, the flow of users needs to be restricted as much as possible.

[–] MKBandit@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Realistically it would take about 2 weeks I think for the board to force spez out or back peddle

[–] democracy1984@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Private subs may hurt Reddit slightly more than restricted, but restricted subreddits don't hurt users/the Internet nearly as bad. And if we want support for our cause, we should not to hurt the users too much.

[–] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you explain? I don’t really get this. They make koney by Ads, not new posts. So any traffic they get because they still have content is counterproductive to pressure them, isn’t it?

[–] democracy1984@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The majority of ad views come from scrolling through feeds. When I click on a Reddit link, I don't even see any ads. By going restricted, that sub will quickly stop showing up in users feeds. This will cause them to get bored faster, and give less ad views.