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Re:Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, y... by Aurornis on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @03:43PM (#46607645)

> If the result of their protest is that the site is less useful for you, the user, then in fact it served its purpose, as the entire point was an attempt to boycott Reddit, ie. get people to stop using it by removing the user contributions that give the site its only value in the first place.

In practice I just give them more page views because I have to view more threads before I find the answer.

Reddit's DAU numbers have only gone up since the protest.

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Re:Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, y... by anonymous908213 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @03:49PM (#46607739)

I did phrase it as "an attempt". In the end the protest probably wasn't as effective as protestors might have hoped, and it didn't get Reddit to change course on their enshittification decisions. I do think it was good that there was an attempt at pushback, at least, when most software users just accept enshittification as normal and continue tolerating whatever abuse their masters throw at them.

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Re:Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, y... by swed420 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:58PM (#46610346)

> Reddit's DAU numbers have only gone up since the protest.

And so has the bot activity.

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