Ya that’s why both the moderator teams mentioned in the article quietly relented and removed the NSFW designation and the situation on reddit is more or less back to normal.
This isn’t over by a long stretch, dude. There will be guerrilla shit going on for a long time. Mods who have returned are already half-assing their jobs, people are demanding pay, and the user base is fractured.
Plus, this isn’t the end of Reddit’s bullshit. They’ll keep pumping out more ads and making more unpopular changes. Name the last big company that ever said, “Okay, that’s enough money made. We can go back to good service and a reliable product now.”
Reddit traffic dropped by about 3%
That’s gonna be about the extent of what we’re gonna see. The situation has more or less normalized on reddit and the admins are tying up the largest loose ends - like /r/pics or /r/military
Posting pictures of Jon Oliver reddit couldn’t care less about. Setting the sub to NSFW is what hurts them, and it seems like subs are finally switching back on threat of mod removals.
Will reddit continue going to shit? Absolutely. It’s entered that phase of enshittification and crossed its own Rubicon.
But behemoths take time to die. The redditor userbase has gotten fatigued and until reddit makes their next shitty decision I think things will be more or less back to status quo - minus the users that left.
The 3% figure was just month over month from May to June.
I read that article. It was very misleading. You took the bait.
