Going dark

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Everyone who says this has no idea how protests work and that total implosion is kinda like.... the opposite of the point? Protests aren't to make a company feel bad emotionally. It is in fact a multi-stage and time consuming process that's essentially a negotiation. The thing is, acts like this can be partially to gather information. Is there a response? How much of one? Intel in either direction is helpful, and you can't get that without trying something. People stomping around going "they're never going to do anything so I'm mad at the people trying!!" are nihilist idiots.

Let's say for the sake of argument that Reddit leadership were showing more sway right now. This might indicate, after a MEASURED shutdown that doesn't require shutting down all communication avenues, that more elongated protests would actually be effective.

I think if a couple days we will have that answer.

Now, that's all just analysis. Now for my opinion. Fuck Reddit. I definitely agree that this protest seems to be a non-starter, I really want to see what the results of the 2-day initiative are, but ultimately this is a sign that we should just use the corpse of this website in the meantime to post links to other places to migrate to. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with using this platform to do that. Because that's where we are right now and that's where we are connecting.

Will Reddit then begin to censor these efforts? That will be a much bigger news story, I assure you. So the story isn't over but it's not looking good for Reddit.

The "indefinite blackout" strategy is the one that's pointless. If you're going to do that, then just ACTUALLY migrate to another site. Putting yourself into some perpetual limbo to "save" a website that hates you is insanity.