We are going 9 days strong on the #redditblackout glad there are people still doing this. IT should send a message to the world that the little people have a voice. of course u/spez isn't listening thats why people are dumping reddit in droves! Reddit will die in a fire and i'm here for it! delted my 6 year old account on the 13th and i'm not going back. Period!
Hide yo wife, hide yo kids, Reddit admins comin 'for ERRYBODY.
I thought they were coming for r/zfs at first but nope, they were coming for r/25admins, which has only 250 subscribers and had no activity at all for a YEAR prior to the protest.
"On the whole, #Reddit has benefited from a system that largely spares its leaders from having to make impossible decisions over what kinds of speech belong on the platform. But it also makes the company unusually vulnerable when, in an effort to wrest back some power from the user base, they revolt." #RedditMigration
An update on Redditanic's sinking and Steve Huffman’s megalomania:
Large subs are being nuked of their mods. r/mildlyinteresting had their whole mod team suspended and removed. r/TIHI and r/interestingasfuck show up as unmoderated (and therefore open to scabs to apply to become mods).
At least two of these have had polls and overwhelming user support for the protests.
In The Good Place lingo: Steve Huffman is a giant forking bench who takes cork up the ash for pennies.
It seems like #reddit is really trying to shut down the #redditblackout now. They are now actively removing ENTIRE mod teams where there communities posted #nsfw content on subreddits where the moderators allowed it.
Reddit is clearly of the opinion that moderators are no longer the masters of their subreddits and can be removed without any real wrongdoing.
Steve Huffman: "Apollo threatened us, said they'll 'make it easy' if Reddit gave them $10 million. This guy behind the scenes is coercing us. He's threatening us."
Luckily, Apollo developer Christian Selig had proof that Huffman lied.
While the media coverage (and many written subreddit positions) focus on the API changes, it's the justified anger at Huffman's dishonesty that fuels many of the redditor protests.
I feel that the Reddit mods really fucked up their protest.
I know that the thinly veiled threats are scary, and I'm not going to do their unpaid labour the disservice of assuming they just didn't want to lose power. It would be painful for anyone to spend that much time doing something and have it be ripped away.
That said, replacing that many mods at once would have been a monumental task for Reddit if they had been forced to do so. Mods shouldn't have caved.
It's official: in accordance with overwhelming community consensus and support, reddit.com/r/zfs is now your one stop shop for discussion of and memes about zfsboutique.com, Zalando Fulfillment Solutions, and zinc formaldehyde sulfate.
Apparently r/interestingasfuck just became a porn subreddit, and has managed to get boobs to the top of r/all. Over half of the posts I found on the front page of r/interestingasfuck is now porn. It's becoming r/interestingassfuck instead.
If enough subreddits do this, Apple will eventually see no other outcome than removing it from the App Store due to their policy.
I'm planning to self-host a Reddit like instance for myself, but I'm between Lemmy and kbin . Essentially I want to host my own data, and jump into discussions from other communities.
With a limited search results, people praise for #kbin, and bash #lemmy developers about their world and political views, however Lemmy is written with #rust, and Kbin with #php .
I just want to migrate to what people will be using to.
While I disagree with u/spez's actions, I understand his perspective. Reddit's most valuable asset is its curated text data for training Large Language Models like ChatGPT. Closing down the API protects that asset. He's likely betting that subreddit moderation will be solved with LLMs so the mods that generated that data are of little concern going forward. There will be only one chance to monetize this data asset.
The reason I disagree with u/spez's actions is because I don't believe this asset belongs to him. I'm sure he's protected from a legal perspective but from a philosophical perspective, when a user writes an idea on an online forum, they don't forfeit ownership of that idea. People who contributed to Reddit even 12 months ago had no idea their thoughts will be monetized and consumed by LLMs. We need laws to protect people's data and to democratize data assets.
I also wish u/spez would just be honest about what he's doing. Telling possibly career ending lies about developers and disregarding the mods that made Reddit is inexcusable. It's clear that Reddit has succeeded despite u/spez's leadership.