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All the nay sayers that it won't change anything, are right to a point. Yes the message is "it's only two days, after that it's fine again!", if you're full on corpo. But what the userbase is demonstrating to not just reddit, but future investors on their IPO - is that they are 100% capable of removing everything that makes reddit what it is within days and for an indefinite amount of time. There's always churn. The amount of potential new users being lost due to massive degradation in public feeds will be noticeable. The amount of lost impressions on ads for mega subs will be noticeable.
To my mind, it doesn't even matter if this particular two day period hurts them financially. The message is clear. Reddit isn't some assortment of Twitter schmucks that have no ability to actually have any impact. If there's nothing to monetize, nothing to push ads through, nothing to attract new users, the platform is worthless and the users hold almost all the power.
If reddit takes away the ability to turn subreddits off, they'll be deleted next time. This generation is fed up with being helpless pawns in shitty CEO games. I deleted several accounts and don't have any left. I am done with reddit as an actual user and contributor.
Every time they go toe to toe with their user base they will bleed the users that keep that place running and relevant.
I'm loving that this is actually so wide spread.
I'm just looking forward to news item Reddit puts out gaslighting everyone into thinking nothing of real consequence happened.