As we’ve been masking, issues are usually not going properly over on Reddit in the mean time, with the location’s possession presently engaged in a operating battle with readers and moderators. Customers are so irritated at makes an attempt to monetise the location that they’re working by a wide range of protests, however one of many bigger gaming subreddits—r/steam, with 1.9 million subscribers—is now my favorite.
We’ve seen blackouts, we’ve seen websites toggle their settings to NSFW (thus slicing off advert income), however r/steam—whose mods had been threatened with elimination in the event that they didn’t reopen the subreddit after an preliminary blackout—has determined as a group that in the event that they needed to reopen, they had been going to reopen with a objective.
And that objective, as PC Gamer level out, was to develop into the web’s high vacation spot for all issues steam-related. And by that I don’t imply the PC’s most popular shopfront and launcher, however steam engines. Steam clouds. Steam tractors, steam-driven automobiles and educational books about steam.
Right here, for instance, is a basic “fee my setup” submit, emphasis on basic:
On this submit, a person has an essential technical query they’re hoping the group can reply:
Simply because there’s a protest occurring doesn’t imply there isn’t something to rejoice:
Like most gaming subreddits, customers are generally overcome with nostalgia, and prefer to reminisce concerning the good outdated days:
Right here’s a reminder that Reddit solely exists because it does in the present day as a result of it’s a spot the place customers can train, study and hang around with different human beings without cost:
Whereas this possibly isn’t essentially the most efficient type of protest—with customers nonetheless producing content material, anybody viewing r/steam on the corporate’s official cell app will nonetheless be served adverts, which is the entire motive they’re making an attempt to squeeze third-party functions out within the first place—in case you’re going to settle right into a protest for the long-run, you might as properly have some enjoyable with it.