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Prior to the protest reddit was in full support of the protest. Most polls on subs supported a shutdown. Now, seemingly every community cant understand why the protest was needed and they're calling it a mod power trip. There is a 3rd possibility. This is an unfounded conspiracy but reddit themselves could be manipulating scores.

See the NFL thread if you don't mind sending traffic

https://reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/14b11kh/were_just_here_so_we_dont_get_fined/

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[-] karbairusa@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago

I mean the truth is 95% of redditors didn't use apps and don't care about this at all.

It's like if your local street had a protest for sheep shearing, preventing you from going to the park or movies. It's irrelevant to you and the large majority would want it over.

[-] Confuzzeled@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I would have thought most people would be using an app. Most people access the Internet through their phone.

[-] Scaldart@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm not buying Reddit's statistics. 90%+ of mod actions on desktop web and official app? I can see plenty of use for old Reddit, but they have locked quite a few mod actions behind the new interface recently. Likewise the more and more spez feels the need to mention that there was no real consequence from the blackout makes me question the validity of that statement. We're all aware what a lying jackass he is.

I'm sure that the majority of people will continue to use Reddit regardless. I'm just not sure that the majority is as major as they are presenting it to be.

[-] slowd0wn@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

I think a lot of mods probably use RES on desktop, which will still be functional after this. But yeah, statistics say that 3PA are only used by about 5-10% of users

[-] funkyb@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

Agreed. they also know RES only works as long as old.reddit.com works, and once that's done, desktop is shit.

[-] Ravor@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Once they kill third party they will go for old reddit. Definitely

[-] CMLVI@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

RES said they weren't sure how it would be effected by the API changes. It could be fine, it could break some stuff.

[-] parrot-party@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

They also aren't really developing it anymore. The maintenance team is down to two people on their spare time. They aren't going to fix what Reddit breaks at this point.

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