As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit’s plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces “open and accessible to users.”
Edit, there seems to be conflicting reporting on this issue:
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.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout
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— u/spez to potential investors. Maybe. Probably. Might be slightly paraphrased.
This is too emotionally intelligent to be u/spez
I mean… did you even ask his permission before just ripping his words verbatim for your own post?
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Its probably going to end up like facebook.
A big lumbering thing, still heavily populated but ad choked and overrun by bots and bad actors, indoctrinating unsuspecting users. Even if it stays big, hopefully its reputation will suffer enough to keep most new users away.
I would argue that the default subs already suffer from a lot of those problems. What’s kept me around in Reddit is definitely the more specialist subs.
Have you checked out the official app? Last I looked, it defaults to about 1 post visible at a time. You can adjust it to about 4 posts visible. Last I check, 1 of those posts was an ad and another was a recommended post.
It already feels like Facebook.
Getting into fediverse platforms has been a godsend. Talking to real people and not dealing with the high percentage of bots is incredible.
I literally forgot what it was like to browse content without sponsored ads strangling my feed.
Steve Huffman should resign.
CEO is beholden to shareholders. He would be replaced with someone tasked with doing the same thing.
Capitalism
Would still be poetic justice. Remember when they threw Ellen Pao under the bus? They forgot to hire a scapegoat for this round of unpopular decisions.
How many people think any such “election” Reddit holds will be a sham?
Yes, I got the “message” from the Reddit CEO, and decided to pre-empt that, and I spent a few hours today manually deleting each and every post I made in my subreddit. The content is already anyway on my blog, on The Internet Archive, and on the Fediverse. So my subreddit now looks like this (he is welcome to let someone else take it now):
https://gdpr.eu/right-to-erasure-request-form/ <3
Glad I left Reddit tbh, so far Lemmy/the Fediverse seems to be way better.
Alright! Time to Boaty McBoatface this thing.
I hate to sail on that old hellsite
Leave her Johnny leave her
The algo’s fucked and the app is shite
And it’s time for us to leave her
How?
Either vote in our own orrrr vote in people who will just destroy the sub.
From NBC News interview :
Eat sand /u/spez.
business owners are accountable???
well they pay accountants to write-off all their mistakes
These definitely sound like the actions of a company that is in no way threatened at all not even a little bit.
/s
I swear Reddit is not only not learning from history but purposely trying to repeat it again thinking oh the previous guys were just too weak…
If you put people in charge who don’t know / care about particular communities in charge, there could be huge trouble.
You know… like the legal advice subr×ddit being moderated by cops. Which it is.
the idea that a cabal of mods were going to take things in a good direction was always unsound
Notoriously mature and level headed mods that spend all day on the internet putting an excessive amount of emotional energy into something most people barely care about… Who could have predicted this?
Hey everyone we’re trying to keep the reddit threads centralized in technology in beehaw. I’m not locking this one because there’s a lot of discussion, but consider moving the chat over to https://beehaw.org/post/576904
I’m a bit paranoid that this could be a technical truth because the communities still closed have dropped in DAU.
Edit: Checked the blackout tracker, of the ones listed 205 are still closed or restricted, so it’s probably an accurate claim, though it seems about half of the participating subreddits are still closed.
Hahaha you know before this many people didn’t think of reddit as corporate corporate. They scewed themselves and ruined their goodwill
I have to admit, it has changed the way I think of reddit, both as an entity and as a source of information.