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18 votes
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The Reddit blackout is breaking Reddit
172 votes -
Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting at Twitter, as protests continue to rock Reddit
105 votes -
Reddit users who tried to delete all their posts during the blackout inadvertently left behind everything inside the temporarily-private subreddits
54 votes -
Subreddit migration directory - Subreddits migrating to Lemmy instances
57 votes -
Reddit CEO pledges to not force subreddits to reopen. Admin team then immediately threatens moderators who closed their subreddits with removal.
In this article from The Verge posted today "While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s...
In this article from The Verge posted today "While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that"
Ironically mere minutes before this article went live, Reddit admins posted this to /r/modsupport.
"Leaving a community you deeply care for and have nurtured for years is a hard choice, but it is a choice some may need to make if they are no longer interested in moderating that community. If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users. If there is no consensus, but at least one mod who wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team."
This statement not only completely contradicts what was "pledged" by Spez, but is also a very clear threat to subreddit moderators telling them to fall in line or get replaced by someone who will.
More articles that came out today about this subject:
Kotaku: Reddit's CEO Is Just Making Everything Worse
NBC: Reddit CEO slams protest leaders, saying he'll change rules that favor ‘landed gentry’
MacRumors: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts
ARS Technica: As the Reddit war rages on, community trust is the casualty
NPR: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: 'It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company'
The full Verge interview Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
397 votes -
What gaps for content, news, or community currently exist for you?
I, clearly along with many others, recently left Reddit and have personally decided not to return unless it sees drastic, lasting change. However, this has made it clear just how reliant I was on...
I, clearly along with many others, recently left Reddit and have personally decided not to return unless it sees drastic, lasting change. However, this has made it clear just how reliant I was on the site for multiple aspects of my life, ranging from local and world news, to hobby related announcements, to perspective, advice, and memes directly from marginalized communities. In Tildes I've already found some of what I've been missing, and I'm sure I'll find more as the community continues to grow, but Tildes doesn't have the same setup to allow for finding the same niche communities that I once had (nor should Tildes ever need to have that).
With all of that said, what gaps are you currently experiencing? Have you found any good sites or resources that have helped you or might help others in the thread?
56 votes -
Redditors of Tildes .. what is the thing you can live without?
Akin to this: https://tildes.net/~tech/1670/redditors_of_tildes_which_subreddits_are_you_missing_the_most_during_the_blackout What can we leave behind? What should we leave behind? For me, the one...
Akin to this: https://tildes.net/~tech/1670/redditors_of_tildes_which_subreddits_are_you_missing_the_most_during_the_blackout
What can we leave behind?
What should we leave behind?For me, the one BIG thing is the stupid puns.
Threads full and full and full of puns, one after the other.Case in point:
https://tildes.net/~movies/16bf/chasing_horse_faces_sex_assault_chargesI can so live without that side of reddit.
edit: Yeah, that "thread" is two comments long, but I just got reddit flashbacks just seeing those.
100 votes -
According to Reddark, ~6k of 8,800 subreddits are still dark including four of the largest seven by subscriber count
92 votes -
What Reddit got wrong
108 votes -
Reddit is OpenAI’s moat
18 votes -
Ripples through Reddit as advertisers weather moderators strike
63 votes -
Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
171 votes -
Megathread for news/updates/discussions about Reddit API changes and reactions to it
A lot of people want to talk about Reddit and that will likely continue. This is a place to post minor news updates, so that Reddit topics don't fill up the front page of ~tech. (Up to you what...
A lot of people want to talk about Reddit and that will likely continue. This is a place to post minor news updates, so that Reddit topics don't fill up the front page of ~tech.
(Up to you what counts as "minor.")
144 votes -
I kind of feel bad for spez.. what would you do if you were in that position?
I have never been a leader at a big company (or anywhere...), and honestly I am pretty ignorant when it comes to money and business, so maybe that's why I feel this way but... isn't this what...
I have never been a leader at a big company (or anywhere...), and honestly I am pretty ignorant when it comes to money and business, so maybe that's why I feel this way but... isn't this what for-profit companies ultimately are supposed to do? (make money?)
Reddit is blowing up today over his internal memo, and that's when I kind of started to feel bad for him. Wouldn't an internal memo be expected at a time right now? Wouldn't it say that kind of stuff? I'm just curious but for others, if you were in his position, what would you do right now? Is there a better move to be made? What should he have said in that memo? I kind of feel bad for him. At the end of the day he helped create reddit, and it must kind of suck to watch your own project devolve and people come to hate you.
The thing about this API decision that got to me is how abrupt it was - 30 days or thereabout. That doesn't seem like very long. But aren't these decisions usually made by multiple people? (not just a CEO?) I also think it sucks that reddit app hasn't been made accessible to vision impaired folks. So maybe he sucks as a leader, but is that a reason to hate him?
I'd love to better understand.
51 votes -
Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’
198 votes -
People who have visited Reddit over the past few days, what's it like over there right now?
What's it like over there right now? IIRC the blackout was supposed to finish today. I've decided to quit reddit unless something changes, so I want to do my best not to visit the site, but I am...
What's it like over there right now? IIRC the blackout was supposed to finish today. I've decided to quit reddit unless something changes, so I want to do my best not to visit the site, but I am very curious about what the website and culture has been like for the past few days. And now that the initial blackout is 'over', how many subreddits have started to emerge again? Are people coming back now and acting like they've won? Has reddit responded to the blackout at all?
45 votes -
Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted
117 votes -
Redditors of Tildes, which subreddits are you missing the most during the blackout?
I am really struggling without r/selfhosted. I truly believe it is, by far, the best community for self-hosters that I have come across. What I am missing most of all is, whenever I search for...
I am really struggling without r/selfhosted. I truly believe it is, by far, the best community for self-hosters that I have come across. What I am missing most of all is, whenever I search for questions to self-hosting problems - especially for smaller projects - the answers are nearly always found within posts on that sub.
At least with things like programming, there is stackoverflow and a bunch of other small communities.
I'm going to end up going to Discord to find my solutions, which is the next big community. But it means having to go on there and ask the question (that has probably been asked hundreds of times before), rather than just searching the issue.
198 votes -
Making Reddit remove content with EU law vs using a script
14 votes -
Reddit appears to be down during blackout day 1
168 votes -
The most liberating decision: just deleted my Reddit account
https://postimg.cc/phNYcrTJJust deleted my Reddit account. I was a Digg addict, and thereafter way to absorbed in Reddit for my own good. Wanted to thank Christian for a brilliant app (if he ever...
Just deleted my Reddit account. I was a Digg addict, and thereafter way to absorbed in Reddit for my own good.
Wanted to thank Christian for a brilliant app (if he ever was to see this: you poured your soul into that thing. Thank you for all you did). I’ve now deleted the app on all devices and am moving on!
Am looking forward to a fresh change.
I really like the feel of this place. Low key, easy to navigate and not crowded. And the civil conversations just blow my mind!
PS: sincerely appreciate the invite link!
150 votes -
These subreddits are going dark or read-only on June 12th and after. Some already are.
157 votes -
r/DataHoarder project to archive reddit before the API changes (link to request a copy of your personal data in comments)
21 votes -
Likely the last Mod post that I'll make in /r/videos. We're shutting down
248 votes -
Red Reader granted non-commercial, accessible exemption to Reddit API
37 votes -
AMA with u/spez going on right now - "Addressing the community about changes to our API"
144 votes -
Apollo will close down on June 30th. Reddit’s recent decisions and actions have unfortunately made it impossible for Apollo to continue. Thank you so, so much for all the support over the years.
281 votes -
Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
112 votes -
Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest
22 votes -
Reddit is going to enforce rate-limiting the API's free tier as well as charging for higher rates
213 votes -
Reddit API Changes
Official Announcement NYTimes Article Apollo Apollo (well known iOS client) developer talking about the specifics. Sounds like the API will now be paid based on usage. It's a bit easier to have an...
Apollo Apollo (well known iOS client) developer talking about the specifics. Sounds like the API will now be paid based on usage.
It's a bit easier to have an opinion after the Apollo developer revealed the specifics Reddit gave him. Other than the NSFW part, which seems odd considering the API will be one of the revenue streams that isn't advertiser supported, it seems reasonable, of course waiting on the final price per usage.
It was never going to be sustainable for Reddit's API to be fully free. It was just silly - you could use the whole site, which certainly costs money in both AWS fees and developers doing KTLO, and not see any advertisements via the API.
App developers will pass the costs along to the user, many will likely fold because it won't be commercially viable with the additional cost, but, well, that's the way of things.
42 votes -
i.reddit.com (aka .compact) appears to be gone
As an old, I prefer the old reddit. Which, lets be honest, has been going away for a while. But so long as I could browse on my phone via i.reddit.com, I was happily entertained by time there. No...
As an old, I prefer the old reddit. Which, lets be honest, has been going away for a while.
But so long as I could browse on my phone via i.reddit.com, I was happily entertained by time there.
No longer. And I'm saddened by it. It was an imperfect community, but its good parts are replicated nowhere else as far as I can tell, Tildes notwithstanding. Although, if Tildes were maybe 2-3x as busy and had more para-reality* fans, it'd be really darn close. I am still sad, and sad that we can't keep awesome things that generate a lot of community benefit but low income (see also, usenet). Probably, it's a good dead cow.**
*As a true believer (tm), I hesitate to use the word conspiracy, because it has gained so many negative associations with far right absurdity and violence. Among the more serious members of the community, we have yet to come up with an easy to use term. Another thing in the world I am sad about. For the record, I don't believe the election was stolen, but I also don't believe Kennedy was assassinated by Oswald, or at least not him alone.
**if anyone is interested, I relay the story of the Wise Man, the Poor Family, and Their Cow.
23 votes -
Major Reddit outage in progress
20 votes -
Reddit was hacked
16 votes -
r/antiwork seems to be back (was it really gone?)
tl;dr IDK what happened before, but r/antiwork is public now (again?). I just stumbled across this tildes thread from 2 weeks ago [EDIT: crap ... 1 year and 2 weeks ago; mixed up my "current year"...
tl;dr IDK what happened before, but r/antiwork is public now (again?).
I just stumbled across this tildes thread from 2 weeks ago [EDIT: crap ... 1 year and 2 weeks ago; mixed up my "current year" setting] ... which is right on the border between "keep posting in that thread" and "it's too old, start a new one" ... so here we are.
I'm familiar with the ideas, but never heard of that specific subreddit before. Looking through the Fox interview, I must be missing something, because I don't understand what all the fuss was about. What "mistake" did the mod make in the interview? Why did everyone suddenly hate her? etc. Seemed perfectly innocuous to me (apart from, why even bother with Fox).
But that aside, the previous thread indicates that r/antiwork was effectively bullied into going private. Looking at it this morning, it is not private. I am assuming that they just recently de-privatized it?
On a side-note, top comment on the thread is about not supporting r/cringetopia ... which ... that subreddit is private. Is that also new? It had me confused for quite awhile this morning, trying to figure out which subreddit was actually under controversy and forced to go private.
4 votes -
Yishan Wong (ex-Reddit CEO) on moderation
15 votes -
r/Onlyfans101 mods are currently manipulating tons of NSFW subreddits
16 votes -
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman discusses how he wants every subreddit to be its own media company and he wants to see money being exchanged from users to users and users to subreddits
35 votes -
Reddit launches NFTs
30 votes -
The Quasi-Official 2022 r/place Atlas
12 votes -
Women are splitting off from the doomsday prepper community
19 votes -
Google search is dying: Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface.
41 votes -
/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
19 votes -
Life of Reddit Enhancement Suite
23 votes -
Popular subreddit r/antiwork goes private after Fox interview
Many of you might be familiar with the popular and massively growing antiwork/work reform movement that found a home in the r/antiwork subreddit. Well, recently, the founder of the subreddit was...
Many of you might be familiar with the popular and massively growing antiwork/work reform movement that found a home in the r/antiwork subreddit. Well, recently, the founder of the subreddit was invited on Fox news for an interview and
it went about as well as you could expect(We shouldn't support r/Cringetopia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yUMIFYBMncSub is now private, an offshoot called /r/WorkReform has been launched and everyone hates the old mods now.
41 votes -
Reddit announces update to user blocking: Blocked users will no longer be able to see or interact with your content on the platform
16 votes -
Reddit allows hate speech to flourish in its global forums, moderators say
31 votes -
Reddit is preparing to launch "Community Points" sitewide, allowing any subreddit to add a custom token to their community
5 votes -
Reddit confidentially files to go public
28 votes