All posts on r/pics and r/gifs must now be about comedian and Last Week Tonight host John Oliver after users voted.
It’s funny, but I don’t quite get the point of this. If you are boycotting Reddit then you shouldn’t be going there to post about things. If you ARE going there, you are no longer boycotting. Reddit doesn’t care what you post about. You are still participating in the site. It’s just driving traffic back to Reddit, which harms the cause.
Apparently, /r/art is only allowing images of John Oliver looking artsy now.
I feel like the ONLY way this could work is if all the big subs collectively agreed to go this route. As it stands though, you’re still giving Reddit traffic.
The point is to make the site less useful and thus drive users off of it.
Admins have made the point that subs will be opened whether the mods like it or not. But mods can still control the topics of subreddits.
Thus now the rules are changing to make the frontpage stale and drive people off of Reddit. Already /r/pics has mysteriously fallen off of /r/all.
That’s fucking awesome, toss some gas on that fire baby
I visit Reddit but without an account. I don’t vote, comment or post. UBlock Origin and Firefox take care of the ads. No engagement/read-only mode costs them money serving up content while I add nothing. I save my engagement for Lemmy.
You are still an active user. Don’t visit and the site will die.
You are crossing the picket line
