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Most people do not care. Both major concerns have been addressed by Reddit which is that accessibility apps and mod tools won’t be affected by their API changes.
If you want to protest, simply don’t visit reddit. It’s not appropriate to force your view on the vast majority of Reddit users who don’t care.
What they have said is that NON-COMMERCIAL accessibility apps are exempt. Screw the dev who makes a good accessibility focused product that plugs the gaping holes in Reddit’s offerings and actually wants a little something for their time.
I am not aware of any such statement regarding mod tools other than promising to improve their own (which they have been promising for over a decade).
@giddy Yep, but sentiment on reddit seems to be changing a little. People are taking this as a concession and want to access their memes. Turns out the current users of reddit don’t really care how they get their meme fix.
@BlueForestDev but the contributors (the ones who moderate subs and post content) are more likely to bail out
@giddy I dont think so. In my opinion mods are delusional about their level of contribution and most are sticking around you can see it yourself. The ones leaving thus far are those discontent with the content on reddit.
I also see subs open polls now for the blackout stuff and most votes are in favor of stopping the blackout and calling out mods for ‘virtue signalling’ and calling them tyrants.
Just to give some perspective.
@BlueForestDev this is the most common criticism of any kind of protest, and it’s highly fallible. The entire point of a protest is to prompt change by disruption that causes inconvenience and discomfort to people. The idea that bystanders being inconvenienced should dissuade protestors completely ignores and thus dismisses the underlying reasons that prompted the protest. Inconvenienced and disgruntled users are the entire point, because those are the users who will pressure reddit to change.
@Apaulling I don’t think reddit will change a thing honestly. The current main users of reddit are normies and no longer the original tech focused core. Mods are a different story, but in the end if they don’t bend the knee they will be forced out and replaced. Let’s not play pretend.
I checked some comment sections and the sentiment seems to have shifted a lot from overt support to criticism and calling mods hostage takers.
@BlueForestDev I think that anyone calling mods “hostage takers” should start their own subreddits and mod them themselves. When they have to do all the maintenance and go unappreciated by both users and admin, maybe they’ll start to understand. Mods are a major reason why subreddits flourish.
