What are the chances Reddit doesn’t give a shit and just waits it out. Only gonna last till the 14th anyways.
Some subs are going “indefinite” but Admins will just replace the mods.
WhitePeopleTwitter is doing a half-assed thing that doesn’t actually do anything.
And the big “news” ones that are 100% controlled by feds (news, worldnews, politics etc) are ignoring the blackout too. No polls, no discussions, nothing. Makes sense, too. Those the ones used to push Western propaganda. Can’t let some unpaid shmucks shut it down in “protest”.
Yeah, as a side effect google is now practically useless lmao
edit: thank god for cached pages, sucks they're all in the shitty new reddit layout, though
unless you want to buy something, which is essentially all google's meant to show you nowadays
It’s not even good at that! I’m trying to find things to buy and it’s just serving up trash.
Porky getting greedy again just might be the best thing that happens to the web, I love this community.
Sometimes I feel like many of the results are actually worse than chatgpt spam. At least chatgpt can stick to a single train of thought. Most links on google lead to Markov chain like articles. I guess it's good that we can still tell they're not written by people, but often times you don't even get anything that's more than tangentially related to your actual query to go double check or look further into.
What are the chances Reddit doesn’t give a shit and just waits it out.
there is no way redditors will effectively protest and won't just go back to posting the minute spez makes an announcement that the API changes will be slightly less terrible than what they originally said
they don't even have to make any changes. the black outs have a specified end date, it's only a few days. they're just going to wait it out lmao
A decent number seem to have said their shutdowns are indefinite until the changes are scrapped. But probably not enough.
yea, but that's mostly the left-leaning ones so it'll probably mostly just make reddit even more of a chud hellhole
Yeah, it only matters if big ones like r/videos actually stick with it. Admins might just deal with those few big ones and let the other ones stay dark, especially if they're left leaning.
What’s the point in a protest that only lasts 3 days? And why are redditors doing this? Can’t imagine they give a fuck about 3rd party apps to care
Reddit has a storied history of replacing entire mod teams with hand picked stooges if they take protests too far on popular subreddits.
So I suppose the mods have a vested interest in not being removed. It won't happen, but it'd be great if the moderators of big subs just fell on their swords en masse to force reddit to show its entire ass and start to get users really, really mad.
And why are redditors doing this? Can’t imagine they give a fuck about 3rd party apps to care
It is supported by the reddit userbase because around half(Maybe more?) of the traffic to reddit is from mobile and the official reddit app sucks ass. Everyone uses either Apollo or Reddit Is Fun.
Basically the only reason this is happening is because reddit want to kill these alternative apps because they want that traffic in their own app where they can serve ads. They made api access prohibitively expensive in order to kill third party apps.
That's it really.
And their app sucks fucking ass. Even Apple don't advertise the reddit app, Apple have used Apollo in official advertisements and presentations when accessing reddit.
Private property is so cool and good I love how it solves problems instead of creating them!
Without third party apps and tools like automods and subreddit bots, lots of subreddits would be impossible to run.
Whoa, protesting and striking an entire week? That's wayyyyy too radical and extreme. What are we, a bunch of tankies?
If they can escalate with longer and longer strikes, then 3 days is a great shot across the bow
With the size of the strike that's the funniest thing they could do short of replacing mods with some kind of AI. Most of the subreddits had some kind of community vote with near-unanimous support and reddit would have to curate new mods for all of those places at the same time who'd be dealing with hostile users.
A three day boycott is surely going to persuade executives
Free labor deciding to quit is good, right?
/r/Videos is a subreddit which stated they're closing down until the admins reverse their decisions, iirc.
The executives will have barely had time to receive the information and schedule a meeting about it at that point
Reddit would only buy them to shut them down (and, they think, push mobile traffic to their app), and they're already doing that for free.
They did that to make the first version of the official iOS app, Reddit bought out alien blue. But Reddit fucked it up, completely changed the app to be worse for no reason.
man i couldn't imagine what a shitshow reddit would be if Musk bought it instead of twitter. It would be real funny though
As I recall he was legally compelled to buy twitter after making a 420 joke. Idk if that's what really happened, through.
He was legally compelled to after he signed a contract saying he would without basically without any conditions.
All of these "yay reddit is going down" "only libs use reddit" comments are so dumb. Yall just lying to each other about how you're above the reddit crowd when I'd bet my right arm 90% of this site regularly uses reddit.
Its like when a group of guys (maybe ladies and NBs do this too, idk) get together and one tells some sex story so the next guy has to go bigger and the next guy now goes even bigger til everyone is telling ridiculous stories and pretending to believe the others.
I only use it to read drama shit and procrastinate, and I do it almost entirely through a third party app.
So that disappearing will probably just make me procrastinate elsewhere, but I can dream that I'll do something more useful at least.
I'd like reddit to die so it can be replaced by something better and decentralized. Right now it's monopolizing both big communities and small niche communities, and that's real bad because one company can control what gets discussed in all of them. Many of these communities don't even exist outside of reddit, so there's really no choice but to use it and also hope it dies. Also it's currently just about the only way to get search results out of google written by a human being. Years ago you could find all kinds of welcoming forums via google full of people who could answer niche questions. Now it's either reddit or seo spam crap articles.
The small niche ones only exist because they're on reddit. They used to be on web forums, and pretty much everyone agreed they suck and abandoned them. On reddit they're easy to participate in and not full of spam.
Sure, but now we have to read through 71 iterations of exactly the same joke as the top voted comments on almost every post.
Definitely one of the things HB has that makes it many times more pleasant to interact with.
It's because they had admins with skin in the game, instead of being the property of faceless censoring corporations.
Yeah, I'm not saying I miss the old style of internet forums, I definitely prefer what Hexbear has been doing. I'm saying I miss there being many, many independent forums not under the control of a single media company.
I mean I only use Bacon Reader, and will probably mostly quit once that's gone. And it'd be cool to have a better, decentralized site sure. But I've also been on reddit for like 14 years now. It's about the only website (or thing) I still use that I used when I was 13. It's what got me into leftist politics. Honestly it kinda sucks seeing it go down the toilet, feels like the death of a community.
For hobby stuff, sure. But I haven't posted since August 2021 😎
We're a banned reddit refugee site. We have no reason to throw stones.
WhitePeopleTwitter is doing a half-assed thing that doesn’t actually do anything.
lol. lmao even.
Possibly the most pathetically libbrained sub on the website that isn't a news sub.
I'm not using the reddit app, so once they just down the APIs, I am pretty much done.
I'm really hoping that as a result of this there are a good amount of folks who migrate to the fediverse. That will be so perfect once we are federated
I don’t want to share a space with a bunch of tech bros and chuds
Idk I would love to be able to go harass people like we did in the CTH days, get back the reputation that brought so many of us here
If this is done with hexbear.net users the other places will just defederate hexbear. It will have to be done with alts from different instances.
For "harassment" anyway.
One of the things I will miss most from reddit is the more niche communities. If enough people migrate over and we federate, I am looking forward to subscribing to those communities through here
The problem with getting niche communities over is that often a bunch of otherwise knowledgeable people are also libs or chuds that we don't necessarily want to associate with.
Someone just recommended a book detailing the history of SST records last night.
The person was a huge fucking asshole and I hope their van breaks down in the middle of nowhere on tour and the rest of their shows do nothing but lose money, but yeah, it sounds like something that'd be up your alley. I'll try and dig up the title.
Reddit will absolutely wait it out and most of Reddit will stay on Reddit. The disruption is good though. A lot of people are checking new places on the internet.
Apparently a lot of places made Lemmy instances. Many left(ish) subs did, which is to be expected. What surprised me is that even the Path of Exile subreddit made one, so word definitely got out about Lemmy.
That's actually bad, though. Because New People are all :LIB: and therefore The Devil
