Schon bemerkenswert, wie User gegen eine Plattform kämpfen, bei der sie freiwillig sind. Als gäbe es keine Alternativen.
Meine Prophezeiung ist, die User werden auf lange Sicht die Kröten schlucken.
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.
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!
"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.
@jebba I used lemmy when i first joined from the #redditblackout I then created a mastodon account. and was chatting away. I kept seeing good stuff about kbin and never tried it till today. OMFG it's amazing. its reddit on steroids. you can create post and microblog! Post like reddit. microblog like twitter/mastodon. I love the fediverse
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.
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.
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.
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.