jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoReddit is going public. Will its unruly user base revolt?www.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1208arrow-down112
arrow-up1196arrow-down1external-linkReddit is going public. Will its unruly user base revolt?www.vox.comjeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square56fedilink
minus-squareLvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·1 year agoLet’s ask the same question in another way. Can we make its userbase revolt? If yes, how?
minus-squareLvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoCan we make it revolt harder, then? More specifically: are there ways to encourage the current Reddit userbase to act so notoriously destructively towards the platform, that no sane investor would burn their money buying Reddit stock?
minus-squareremotelove@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoIf you can control the porn, you control the internet. So, if you can somehow trigger a revolt in all the NSFW subreddits, you win. Reddit stock will tank before it goes public.
minus-squareloobkoob@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year ago“He who controls the spice(y content) controls the universe” - Baron Harkonnen in Frank Herbert’s Dune
minus-squareLvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThat’s a fun idea - specially if we could recruit the Reddit “porn is bad!” crowds to raid Reddit NSFW subs.
minus-squareSizzler@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYou are asking the same question the somethingrotten forum users asked themselves when they came up with the answer of SRS (shitredditsays). Designed to meta-criticise the users of reddit itself, it feeds itself as users submit their own, (curated), idea of what a shitty redditor is. Let the snake eat itself
Let’s ask the same question in another way.
Can we make its userbase revolt? If yes, how?
It’s always revolting.
Can we make it revolt harder, then?
More specifically: are there ways to encourage the current Reddit userbase to act so notoriously destructively towards the platform, that no sane investor would burn their money buying Reddit stock?
If you can control the porn, you control the internet.
So, if you can somehow trigger a revolt in all the NSFW subreddits, you win. Reddit stock will tank before it goes public.
“He who controls the spice(y content) controls the universe” - Baron Harkonnen in Frank Herbert’s Dune
That’s a fun idea - specially if we could recruit the Reddit “porn is bad!” crowds to raid Reddit NSFW subs.
You are asking the same question the somethingrotten forum users asked themselves when they came up with the answer of SRS (shitredditsays).
Designed to meta-criticise the users of reddit itself, it feeds itself as users submit their own, (curated), idea of what a shitty redditor is.
Let the snake eat itself