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Actually they do care. These 2 does not go together:
(Un)fortunatelly they still can't get over their beliefs that Reddit is still good old Reddit and that they can proceed as public trading company. I am honestly interested what is the tipping point for them until they (attempt to) stop their bullshit.. 😂
I think you are overestimating the vocal minority here.
I don't think it's a stretch to say that most people that even use reddit directly (website, any app, etc), are just lurkers. I wouldn't be surprised if many of them don't even have an account, based simply on a few popular subs' top posts, number of upvotes, number of comments as compared to the number of people here + subscribers.
I would argue that most of the people that actually consume reddit content don't care about reddit, the app, the layout, etc. They are getting the content regurgitated through whatever forum/social media influencer or site they are browsing.
Before, if a person came across clickbait lists and articles, it almost certainly came from buzzfeed. Now it originates at Reddit.
If you think Reddit is backing down, you are sadly mistaken.
To this end I think it's safe to say that Reddit doesn't give a shit about what the vocal users say because they know that's not really the target audience
The problem with that study is that it doesn't take into account the different user types.
When I talk about Reddit I break userd down into four groups.
The changes Reddit implemented only impact the last three types, which are also the types that actually generate content, the same content that the first group The majority in this case goes to the site for. If the mods are leaving the platform because they lack tools to do their job, the posters and the chatters are leaving the platform because they no longer have a decent user interface, there's no one left to provide content for the lurkers to enjoy, meaning that there's nothing else for them to do.
This happens rinse and repeat through a website's life. Chatango used to be a super popular browser based chat service, if you went on a website and it had a live chat chances are it was using to chatango.
But nowadays you hardly ever hear of the platform, because the platform had a falling out with its user base they stopped providing updates they stopped adding new features and a lot of the websites that the platform ran on stopped providing content that kept bringing the users back, with no reason to come back the only people that remained were the ones that had formed friendships with others in the chat. But that only works for so long the ones that really knew each other just added each other on at the time Skype so they ended up moving off platform
That being said I do think that they know what they're doing, I just don't think they have a real choice in the matter. They missed their IPO window and it's now devaluing, which requires drastic measures to not lose what they put in. I personally think that they're using u/spez as a scapegoat for the changes otherwise they would have pushed him out by now
The 1-9-90 rule applies. 1% create content. 9% actively interact with it in various ways. 90% lurk. You get 25% of the 1% to leave/quit, the 9% have less to interact with and the 90% start to lose interest. It starts a downward spiral with the 1% and the site begins to crash.
Twitter is starting to see that happen with increasing losses of users.