I find it kinda funny that my most upvoted post is John Oliver. It shows how much he is a symbol for the protest against the api.

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    Sadly thats exactly what reddit wants :/ doesnt matter if its John oliver as long as it isnt NSFW and content and brings clicks they are happy.

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        Or fediverse logos, since reddit seems very unhappy that people are telling redditors how to switch to alternatives.

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        I haven’t checked out reddit in a couple of days. I think that is the point of the blackout. Yea now and then but it defeats the purpose!

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      Yup. They want people to just be empty shells and consume contents. As long as people go to reddit on their Reddit’s app and view targeted ads, it’s a win for them.

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        It’s not zero:sum though.

        I still glance at reddit but I don’t spend time there or put up content anymore. My energies and clicks are mostly fediverse now.

        Once RIF goes down I doubt I will go there unless I need something specific I can’t find here.

        Reddit isn’t going away, it’s just going the way of facebook and twitter.

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          For sure. I wil still visit a few subreddits, namely my city one, as it is one of the place that I can know the little scoop of what’s happening.

          But as for having a serious discussions in various topics, Fediverse all the way.

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      True though as more and more redditors use adblockers and all the post data they have is John Oliver it will become less valuable to advertisers which is why many redditors are using this tactic though making stuff nsfw would be a lot more effective.

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      Which movement it’s exactly what reddit wants, non nsfw content which generates clicks which on the other hand generates them data and ad revenue and award revenue.

      Op literarily does what reddit wants.

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        Somehow I think the person who’d want to click on a pic like that wouldn’t be the kind of person to click on ads. Remember, reddit’s overall traffic is down.

        Only thing I think that would have been better is if this pic had been made out of fediverse logos and links (text of the urls to parts of the fediverse).

        Edit: Yup, that’s been confirmed: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/88139/Reddit-traffic-returning-normal-sort-of

        TLDR; reddit might have traffic back to preblackout levels but their ad traffic is down, and trending downhill.

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          Some ads also simply pay out by being seen no need for clicks, clicks just pay out more for reddit but being seen is already in most cases a so called “impression”

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            Maybe r/pics will go NSFW as well. One can hope.

            Anyways, that’s why I looked at the pic here instead of on reddit itself. Because you’re right - so this is one less set of eyes on reddit ads.

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    Kinda surprised he hasn’t done an episode on the whole reddit api thing. I thought that might be why he’s become the face of the malicious compliance over there

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    I made this post hidden as soon as I posted it so the only way it could of got downvoted is if someone could see it. I wonder who had access to see hidden posts.