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How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though?
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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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A lot of people deleted their account and moved elsewhere but that's just a small percentage of reddit user. The rest, all the brain dead users, the same kind of brain dead users that dump thousands of dollars in mobile games will continue to use reddit as if nothing happened.
But are those the ones that post content?
Never. Maybe occasionally they'll reshare some shit from another platform, typically tiktok or Instagram, which is usually fairly crap and used to break sub rules in a lot of cases. Or they'll comment some room temperature (in Celsius) iq take, like calling reddit an app, not realizing it's a website. But they aren't the ones who make comments worth reading. They aren't the ones who bring in decent oc.