Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, democracy simply doesn't work
You cannot organize an effective protest around boycotting the consumption of a 'free' product, because it already didn't make any financial sense anyways. The only thing that could make this work was the organization and withdrawal of mod labor, which was the effective part of the protest. It remains to be seen if it will be effective, but since scabbing is already prevalent, and the entire project of reddit is and has been mostly funded by Department of Defense and/or pedophile dollars anyways, attempting to 'salvage' reddit was always a fool's game. You can't compete with the inherent structural forces that drive reddit, only make another, separate, structure. Even if the mods were to win, do we really want a 'stable reddit with less contradictions'?
Don't get me wrong. Fucking with reddit and redditors is hilarious and good, but pretending it is political praxis is kidding yourself.
You cannot organize an effective protest around boycotting the consumption of a 'free' product, because it already didn't make any financial sense anyways. The only thing that could make this work was the organization and withdrawal of mod labor, which was the effective part of the protest. It remains to be seen if it will be effective, but since scabbing is already prevalent, and the entire project of reddit is and has been mostly funded by Department of Defense and/or pedophile dollars anyways, attempting to 'salvage' reddit was always a fool's game. You can't compete with the inherent structural forces that drive reddit, only make another, separate, structure. Even if the mods were to win, do we really want a 'stable reddit with less contradictions'?
Don't get me wrong. Fucking with reddit and redditors is hilarious and good, but pretending it is political praxis is kidding yourself.