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The Reddit Blackout Is Breaking Reddit (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sexy_peach@feddit.de to c/technology@beehaw.org

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“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.”

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[–] dan@lemm.ee 148 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (25 children)

If it wasn't hurting them they wouldn't be doing damage control.

Spez wouldn't be doing (awful) interviews
They wouldn't be publishing whitewashed versions of history for their advertisers
They wouldn't be changing the rules to allow them to oust protesting mods
They wouldn't be preventing people from deleting their old comments/posts
They wouldn't be forcing subreddits to reopen
They wouldn't be trying to smear Apollo's dev
They wouldn't be posting propaganda notices on new reddit's homepage
They wouldn't be silencing discussion about Lemmy or advertiser boycotts

It's working, keep it up.

[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 39 points 1 year ago (15 children)

It's seriously hilarious that the "damage control" has been more damaging than the blackout itself

[–] Alfredo_Boyardee@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

There’s a term for that. The Streisand Effect, I think.

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