The protests worked, and so did moving/editing/deleting our old content. As one person complains,
I’m not here for Reddit, but for the aggregation of niche communities. I follow a lot of obscure manga that have relatively small followings and recently I got into an IT job which opened a lot of technological exploration for me. The worst part about this change isn’t even that we are losing 3rd party apps, but that only members of the communities I frequent are the ones who care enough to protest. Can’t tell you how many times now I’ve looked something up on Reddit and find an answer to the issue I have, only to realize that the community is closed or the post is deleted in protest. Now we are stuck in this limbo where protests seem to have lost their steam, niche communities are being overthrown and killed because of that greedy little pigboy. Seriously, fuck spez.
That’s one of the most solipsistic “if it doesn’t affect me it doesn’t exist” comments I’ve seen in a good while.
To give the poster the benefit of the doubt, it’s probably just a very poorly worded frustration that /r/20flavorsofshitpost (with the mindless horde) is operational when /r/thethingiwant (with a passionate small community that adds a lot of value) is dead. It sure could have been communicated better, but I really don’t think it’s meant to claim the protest only affects the poster’s interests.
It’s harder to see the difference when 10% of a huge sub leaves than 80% of a tiny one.
People are way to shortsighted to see how it can affect them as well.
The amount of “I don’t use 3rd party apps so it doesn’t affect me” comments were very noticable.
These changes and the ones that Reddit will implement to rail the userbase even harder will affect the people one way or the other at some point.
I didn’t use 3rd party apps but it would have been incredibly naive of me to say it wouldn’t affect me. It’s the entire basis of how the site works, literally how could it NOT affect me??
the difference is you can look beyond your own immediate needs and see the bigger picture. many people can’t.
First they come for the 3rd party Apps, then Old Reddit, then NSFW content and so on. The change just opened the box of Pandorra and showed how little spez cares about the community.
I did use the official shitty App and left because it is quite obvious that it will only get worse.
For the other people like me that hadn’t seen solipsistic before, it means very egocentric in this context.
It’s referring to the philosophy that the self is all that can be known to exist.