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Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by dataengineer56 »

about3fitty wrote: post #20

I own the DocuSign subreddit. We are going dark permanently… until Reddit decides to reassign it to reps from the company. This is part and parcel of the hollowing out of the platform.

> I own the DocuSign subreddit.

You don't own it, you were just either the first person to create the subreddit or someone who has since becomes the longest-serving moderator on it.

I'll never understand how camping on a subreddit gives anyone the right to say that they "own" it or gives them more power over everyone else indefinitely. It's a big flaw in Reddit, I think all subreddits should be put up for some kind of vote every ~2 years.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by audunw »

cubefox wrote: post #36

Imagine there was a free or quasi-free API for Facebook. Facebook would lose large amounts of money on content because they can no longer monetize it with ads.

I think the Apollo creator mentioned the fact that Reddit doesn't even inject ads in the posts it delivers through its API. He seemed confused about why they hadn't.

Which begs the question why the hell they didn't work on getting the apps used for browsing Reddit to display ads? Just include them as posts like they do on the website, perhaps just with a label added. If the apps try to filter away the ads, revoke their API keys.

If users pay extra, omit the ads from the API. If companies want an entirely ad-free API, for training LLMS etc, they can pay extra.

This problem seems like something that could have so easily been avoided. I think I would happily pay a small monthly fee to keep an ad-free Apollo browsing experience, especially if it could be done in a way where the money was split between Reddit and Apollo. But.. they never even tried?

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by sterlind »

gymbeaux wrote: post #24
deminature wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Getting rid of moderators turns reddit into 4chan. If you want that, fine, but there's already a website for unfiltered hate speech and spam.

It’s incredibly frustrating when you take the time to write something out- something that benefits others and does nothing for you, like sharing your experience or knowledge- only to have the comment removed for one bullshit reason or another. I have never written hate speech or anything racist or in that vein on Reddit, yet I’ve been censored and banned so many times by what I can only assume are children (or childr…

I'm glad your mental health is better, but you come across as an unreliable narrator. I very rarely have my comments removed, and when it has happened, it's never because I posted interesting facts about Cavendish bananas or how VLIW is underrated - it's at least a little controversial or rubs people the wrong way.

The problem with downvotes is brigading (trolls overrun your community), and people have to get exposed to toxic shit before it's downvoted enough to be hidden. You're free to go to voat or whatever if you want. I like communities with good moderation, I seek them out.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by layer8 »

detrites wrote: post #10

I tallied (roughly) the number of subscriber accounts, across all these reddits. It's around 1 billion. Obviously, it's not conservative as many will have subscribed to multiple. But, I see MAU (monthly active users) is about 1b. So, this is huge. EDIT: Seems the source for MAU I found was way high, making this potentially even bigger. Every other source I've found is 400-500m range for MAU on reddit (as another poin…

FWIW, as of 2021, Reddit had around 50 million DAUs and 450 million MAUs.

Some portion of users will also just fall back to visiting other subreddits on June 12.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by that_guy_iain »

fernandotakai wrote: post #19
deminature wrote: post #3

Pissing off the people doing thankless free labor to keep your subreddits moderated and site functional seems like a poor choice. This is going to be quite an event when it kicks off Monday.

what puzzles me the most is that reddit's reasoning for charging money for their API is that "it's bad that other people are profiting from our work and it's too expensive to maintain without someone paying it". hey, guess what? reddit "profits" a LOT from unpaid work from their moderators. if you wanna charge for API access, you should also pay your moderators since you are profiting from their work.

Reddit isn’t profitable therefore technically it doesn’t profit from anything.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by prox »

gorbachev wrote: post #25
fernandotakai wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what puzzles me the most is that reddit's reasoning for charging money for their API is that "it's bad that other people are profiting from our work and it's too expensive to maintain without someone paying it". hey, guess what? reddit "profits" a LOT from unpaid work from their moderators. if you wanna charge for API access, you should also pay your moderators since you are profiting from their work.

The pre-IPO process often involves all kinds of fun short-term profit maximizing activities.

Honest question, does this include artificial inflation of costs? I have seen figures that Reddit used to run with 20 people, and inflated to 2000 in 10 years. Old reddit is also superlight in bandwidth. New reddit is not.
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