I’d like to say that Reddit users are the only social media users that actually give a shit about what it’s company does. The save 3rd party apps blackout didn’t work, but you didn’t see Twitter users doing anything when their site was thrown into a production blender by Elon.
Our protests are useless but we Redditors are special in the sense that we put effort into our posts. Every site has bots, but every site also has users that post low effort content. A couple sentences at most. Here, we have subs of fans and experts that are willing to type out a properly cited APA essay on the most over-specific bullshit topic you’ve ever heard (kind of like I’m doing right now). That may be a little sad in some contexts, but it’s gold to search engines and AI. While we’re the worst user base to manage, we’re also easily the most useful. Not for advertising, but as a source for information. Don’t cite a Reddit thread though.
The power of neckbeards; hard to manage, but crazy valuable. Good info and free moderation… hard to pass that up