As we’ve been protecting, issues usually are not going effectively over on Reddit in the meanwhile, with the positioning’s possession presently engaged in a operating battle with readers and moderators. Customers are so aggravated at makes an attempt to monetise the positioning that they’re working by means of 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 have been threatened with elimination in the event that they didn’t reopen the subreddit after an preliminary blackout—has determined as a neighborhood that in the event that they needed to reopen, they have been going to reopen with a objective.
And that objective, as PC Gamer level out, was to develop into the web’s prime vacation spot for all issues steam-related. And by that I don’t imply the PC’s most well-liked shopfront and launcher, however steam engines. Steam clouds. Steam tractors, steam-driven vehicles and tutorial books about steam.
Right here, for instance, is a basic “charge my setup” submit, emphasis on basic:
On this submit, a person has an vital technical query they’re hoping the neighborhood can reply:
Simply because there’s a protest occurring doesn’t imply there isn’t something to have fun:
Like most gaming subreddits, customers are typically overcome with nostalgia, and prefer to reminisce concerning the good outdated days:
Right here’s a reminder that Reddit solely exists because it does right this moment as a result of it’s a spot the place customers can train, study and hang around with different human beings free of charge:
Whereas this perhaps isn’t the simplest 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 purpose they’re attempting to squeeze third-party purposes out within the first place—if you happen to’re going to settle right into a protest for the long-run, you could as effectively have some enjoyable with it.