LogFAQs > #974242936

BlackScythe0 posted...

Uh... I think the longer it goes on the more people are going to support reddit rather than a few people trying to piss everyone off to get their way.

That's the thing, though: Most people aren't aware of the situation. Without knowing what's going on, they just know that Google results that point to Reddit are unreliable now. The longer it goes on, the more likely they are to just scroll past them and not bother trying, even well past the end of the protest. It gives Reddit a reputation of being unreliable, which stands to hurt their traffic in the long run.

Reddit also knows this, which is why they're getting uppity about subs being dark. If this goes on for too long, their reputation (and therefore value) will suffer.

faramir77 posted...

I don't understand why people don't just leave if they disagree with a website or service. That's how the internet worked before like 2007. Websites would grow from nothing into a household name and then would fade into obscurity within an entire time span of 5 years. We need more of that, websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit need to fail and make way for something new.

You've kind of answered your own question. The modern Internet has become too centralized around a small number of sites for people to simply leave if something happens that they don't like. For many subjects, finding a community somewhere other than Reddit is all but impossible. That means leaving is not simply "go somewhere else," it's "stop talking to people about this subject you like." Discord has kind of changed that, but Discord has a ton of disadvantages compared to Reddit and the like (notably, if you search Google for information on a subject, content that's pinned in a Discord channel somewhere will not show up) and fills a very different niche. There simply isn't enough competition for people to be able to bounce between communities when the service hosting them does something wrong, which is a very real problem.