If I go on the reddit website and scroll through posts without doing anything else, would that affect Reddit's ad revenue, or is it insignificant to Reddit?
I want to see updates on the protest on r/ModCoord without affecting Reddit in a positive way.
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I can understand the interest in watching the drama unfold. It’s like reality tv.
But you should also ask yourself, deep down, why do you care?
Reddit will never go back. It was going downhill long before the 3PA-crisis. Spez will never back down. Even if Spez gets fired it’ll be an Ellen Pao situation all over again. The new CEO will say nice things and then not undo anything Spez did.
At this point the most anyone left on Reddit can do is damage Reddit’s valuation. It’s retribution for destroying the community we all enjoyed.
The mods can do this by impacting what subs can be monetized. Users can do this by decreasing traffic. Even being on the site is traffic.
It's not about watching the drama unfold. It's about watching the tiger die.
Imagine a movie with a powerful villain. Now, imagine that the movie just ends without us seeing the death scene. We just know about it due to the directors confirming it. Imagine Scar running away from the hyenas and the movie just ending with the text 'Scar was killed by the hyenas later on.' It would be mich better to see Scar getting killed, right?
That's why I want to go on Reddit. Not for hopes for Reddit's redemption, but to watch Reddit die in a blaze of stupidity.
Your comment is spot on, and it's what led me to ultimately cutting bait entirely, after 12 years of heavy daily use: it's never coming back to what I remember it as.
Reddit is certainly not going to die anything -- the website itself will likely be around 10 years from now -- but it won't be the reddit I remember or loved. So I moved on. I toyed around with Squabbles for awhile but this feels much more like the reddit experience I'm looking for.