Hey! This post is not specifically related to the lemmy.world instance. From now on, posts such as these will be removed, in order for the community to stay on topic. However, as this is a highly upvoted post, I’ll just lock it for now.
WE should blackout for longer, i own a very small subreddit, but 2 days is not enough!! im not backing down tomorrow, i ask over subs do the same. lets stick it to reddit
I’ve decided I’m done. A complete and utter about face doesn’t feel like it would be enough at this point. At some point a relationship/reputation becomes damaged beyond repair.
We should move. Even if we did a longer blackout, the admins can just replace the mods of the bigger subs and ignore the smaller ones. Even if the blackout is effective, they will pull something like this again.
I’ve lost trust in them. I’m not going back except maybe for information if I really need to.
I won’t go back, with all the changes in the last few years. Reddit isn’t moving in a direction I like.
It should have been indefinitely.
This kind of protest is meaningless, going back online after 48 hours? It’s just a way for communities to feel good about themselves. The best way to protest is to delete the account / subreddit going offline indefinitely (although I doubt the effectiveness of this)
Agreed, but it’s 48 hours later, and it seems like more and more subreddits have decided to continue protesting indefinitely, which I’m really happy to see. I too have no clue how effective it’ll be, but it’s showing a much clearer message.
Exactly - several of my favourite and most commonly visited subs are still private. What’s kept me on Reddit for the past few years has been the ability to carefully curate my feed, and the fact I could still access old, desktop Reddit through my phone browser.
As those things disappear, so will I. Reddit is convenient, a one-stop-shop. I can go back to visiting various blogs, news sites and forums.
From how I understood it (I could be wrong), the initial blackout was planned for june 30th when the API changes come into effect, and the current (previous?) protest was due to Spez’s AskReddit responses. Basically, this was the warning, the 30th is the big one.
The blackout is a way to engage in a way that makes things inconvenient for people not informed about the issue so that awareness is generated. Like picketting the mayor’s office or blocking a public intersection.
I think a blackout has a much higher impact than deleting accounts.
There are so many users nobody notices when a few disappear. But when a subreddit goes dark it’s most certainly noticeable.
It’s evident by now Reddit management doesn’t care. Two days raise awareness amongst users. Maybe the two days won’t be the last for many subreddits or people. And I’m sure more people became more aware, or thought more about the situation and alternatives than without a two day blackout.
I don’t need reddit. Reddit doesn’t generate content, nor does it prevent contributors from sharing the same content on other platforms.
What is reddit doing to win me back?
Yeah its weird that people keep talking about “Reddit’s content” when they haven’t created shit. At least Slashdot has always said “These comments are owned by whoever wrote them”
Not that slashdot hasn’t become crap, but it’s something.
At least Slashdot has always said “These comments are owned by whoever wrote them”
The same sort of thing is in the Reddit terms of service. They don’t want to own the possibly-offensive, maybe-even-illegal speech that people post there. They just require as a term of service that they receive a perpetual license to do whatever they want with it.
Free Reddit silver and a kick in the nuts.
And some ugly-ass NFT snoo abomination
Hey Lemmy gang. Just signed up after seeing this.
The alt-right is having a great time right now on Reddit. Tons of their posts from r/conservative on the front page.
Yes I went there for a peek and it’s so angry. Compared to the positive vibe here, reddit felt oppressive. I’m not going back. Let it simmer and boil. I love this place. It’s so refreshing at lemmy. Such a positive vibe. Like the internet was before it all became centralised. Lemmy is the real Web 3.
r/Canada was taken over by alt-right a long time ago. r/OnGuardForThee had to be made in response to that. I feel like Reddit in general is going that direction. The sheer volume of bot activity on most major subreddits is insane.
So its like Twitter?
Well, that demographic is always great for their advertiser acquisition goal
Right? Nothing like a festering pile of bigotry & ignorance to get the advertisers signing up.
You joke but it’s not exactly wrong.
People like that love to buy dumb shit. After a time Reddit will be nothing but my pillow, t shirt companies, colonial penn life insurance, and reverse mortgage ads.
True, but they’re not exactly swimming in disposable income, usually. Trump’s base is mostly non-college-educated whites. Not exactly a rich vein to mine.
True, but that’s the same base for the mega churches, and those fucks aren’t hurting for private jets.
Trump raises a few million bucks every time he tells his supporters to donate. A LOT of companies want in on that
True enough. As the saying goes, no one ever went broke underestimating the American consumer. Or something along those lines.
And that’s why this is my first comment on lemmy! Just in case Reddit eats itself.
Aye, welcome! I’m still figuring things out myself. Mostly hoping the iOS client Mlem can find its footing because the whole Lemmy experience feels incomplete at the moment, but this all still feels like I’m on the ground floor of something potentially great.
What I don’t get is who they’re posturing for now.
They showed the developers that the game was fixed and there was no plan to negotiate in good faith.
They’ve shown the userbase they aren’t responsive to strongly held concerns.
They’ve shown a potential IPO audience that they’re capable of burning down the platform in record time and not even waiting until after they cashed out to do so.
They’ve shown everyone they don’t even have the most basic understanding of corporate bullshit speak. It’s not hard to put together “We hear your concerns and will assemble a committee of top minds who will proceed to ignore these concerns.”
I guess they just want to say they didn’t back down. That and $12.50 gets you a cup of coffee.
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“Money rules everything around me” -The CEO of Reddit
M.R.E.A.M. get the money!
Except according to him his website isnt even making any… after like 20 years online.
Too bad higher prices doesn’t necessarily mean more money.
Is anyone surprised? The “blackout” seems to have been a total flop most subs don’t give a shit.
The blackout helped me to leave.
It’s difficult to rewire a dopamine pathway you’ve been traveling for 14 years.
Knowing that other people care enough to abstain for two days is useful in that process.
I never expected Reddit to change their policy. I have been surprised at how petulant, dishonest and unprofessional they’ve been. I would have expected a bland corporate response.
Anyway, onward and upward.
onward, and onto the next dopamine pathway.
Same. Not sure I would have ever heard of Lemmy otherwise.
100% same.
I wouldn’t say it was a flop. A massive number of subs and users are participating at the moment (some forced due to the blackouts). But I do agree that reddit executives definitely don’t give a shit, and will eventually just start booting mods to bring the subs back if they don’t fall in line.
Not surprised, still disappointed. Will discuss with other mods the idea of nuking our community as a “fuck you” to Reddit.
Do it. For the lulz. For great justice. Move every zig.
I think it’s more important to bring the subs over here to convince people to migrate
It was never going to do more than get people talking, the number of subreddits isn’t as important as what the long term impact to users and quality will be. They have signaled their interests are not user centric, it wont be the last outrage I’m sure but they’ll keep getting away with it if there isn’t a clear alternative and people keep going back.
That’s true. The changes don’t really effect me in any immediate way, but the blackout gave me a reason to uninstall Reddit for a few days and try Lemmy.
Thanks Satan.
My Google searches are in SHAMBLES rn
Blocking mobile web access and ending old reddit is going to bring more people here over time.
7750/8300 subreddits are blacked out. Plus the server issues caused by the blackout yesterday. I’d be interested to see if an indefinite strike could be powerful enough to reverse this plan
Wow, that’s way higher than I expected. I hope just as many people transfer over to nee platforms so we can get those communities restarted.
Reddit has MANY more than 8300 subreddits. That 8300 is the number of subreddits who SAID they would shutdown.
How did the blackout cause an error?
I expected they would see less utilization, so the servers would be coasting compared to a regular day
- most people
Yeah if they were serious, they’d go dark for good
What absolutely bends my mind is there’s still confused people wandering into the blackout threads with absolutely no clue what’s going on. How is this info not reaching these people?
Do you have any numbers?
8479/8838 subreddits are private as of this comment.
The number on the page is a bit misleading. If you comb through the website’s code on GitHub, you’ll see that the 8,838 is actually the number of subreddits that agreed to participate in the blackout.
Calling it a flop isn’t accurate either, though.
Sure, most subreddits don’t care, but the largest and most active subreddits are overwhelmingly in support of the blackout, but they are also much more affected by Reddit’s changes than smaller subreddits.
EDIT: Some words for clarity.
Reddit has more than 100k active subreddits lol. Also, this number doesn’t mean much because community sizes vary a LOT
It’s not that you’re charging for API access; it’s that you’re charging US pharmaceutical industry pricing levels ($12,000 for something that should realistically be $200) and then only giving devs such a short time to implement changes. This was designed to kill 3PApps outright and everyone can see it. What an ass.
That part. No one is saying don’t charge but literally no one can afford to fork over that kind of money. Christian crunched the number to run Apollo for a year and it came out to approximately $20M. Twenty million freaking dollars. How is this reasonable?
I’m so tired of unchecked greed. It ruins everything. US Pharma is a great comparison.
Main reason why I’m gonna try and stick it out with Lemmy.
Hard to corporate greed a decentralised system :D
“we’re going dark for two days!” isn’t going to change anything. reddit mods live for reddit. Why would they leave?
“Nobody goes there anymore, its too crowded.”
Really, though. What’s the point of contributing to a thread that already has hundreds of top level posts. Something new and fresh is worth a try.
It changed something for me. Sure I might have changed sooner or later anyway but the 48 hours created awareness and provided a moment of time in which to look into alternatives.
Say whatever you want about spez, he is the best thing that ever happened to Lemmy.
They absolutely detest their userbase :(
