I read The Verge’s latest interview with Steve Huffman here and it seems as though the Reddit blackout is having little to no effect. It also seems as though the communities at large don’t really care and will probably just use the official app or don’t really know there are 3rd party ones. So it seems this will pass and be mostly forgotten about.
What are your thoughts?
I think Huffman knows 2 things:
The redditors complaining right now are from the older community, alot of them are probably mods and a lot of them use 3rd party apps.
These people are also a tiny minority of reddit users, and plenty are addicted to reddit.
He knows that mods can be replaced, if they don’t just come back groveling, looking for their next fix. Reddit will suffer in the shortterm, but there are simply too many normie users who will continue using reddit and bringing in revenue for it to really matter.