I think this is the death knoll for the protest unfortunately. Shitposting hurts the user experience, but it doesn’t really hurt reddit. In a week or two the casual users will revolt against the protests and the mods will feel like they have lost popular support and cave.
Hopefully enough people have fully left the platform to cause reddit some pain. But honestly I think reddit would rather have a smaller easier to manipulate user base of new users rather than keeping all the oldest and most cynical users.
I think the action should be coordinated with a migration to lemmy, every user who complains about the lack of quality content you forward (via comments) to the counterpart here
Someone else will have to do it, I haven’t been active on Reddit since June 12th
All mods had to do was collectively say they are no longer going to moderate. Let’s see how quickly reddit admins cave when they need to pay moderators or have the site filled with stuff even 4chan doesn’t allow.
Exactly this, don’t make them dark, leave the unpaid work and let it rot
