My favorite part:

even if you believe reddit is 100% on the right, I don't see how people can go like "yeah, that's the leadership I want to invest in, that's the social site I want to invest in, a site that's going out of their way to piss off a large part of their userbase so that they leave, that's the leadership I feel comfortable giving my money to"

burning millions of dollars on ... spez

Brilliant!!! lmao

I feel that mods do have the right to the blackout more than Louis believes. Mainly because they have been free labor. The site depends on free labor to maintain order and always has. Alternatively they could just stop moderating and let each subreddit fall into a useless free for all.

I think they lied when they said that the blackout had not impacted the bottom line, it just makes sense to say that. Admitting that the blackout was working would mean you have to roll back the change and potentially hurts the IPO launch.

Even if it's true that the blackout was ineffective I think the real test for Reddit will be what happens July 1. I for one will not be using Reddit on mobile without RIF, it's what I've been using since 2012. I'll continue to use RIF as long as it's working and I'll also use Reddit on the desktop, but my mobile usage is about the plummet.

I think a lot of people are likely in the same boat, but even if they aren't it won't matter to me.

Funny he talks about conversations. I was on /r/noahgetthe, a certain German political party from the 1930/40's came up. I said I'd go Book Dexter on a specific mustached German leader (not randos that I said were him) from that time because of what he did to my family. I got a sitewide week ban. Conversations my foot.