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Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by dingusdew »

hinkley wrote: post #25
bstar77 wrote: post #21

Flashback to Digg.com... I hope the people currently in charge of Reddit know how that event played out... it was the single most significant stroke of luck a fledgling Reddit could have possibly hoped for.

What’s the new Reddit though?

The fediverse has places like https://kbin.social/ or there are instances of Lemmy, (https://join-lemmy.org/instances) but most people will want to avoid the "main" lemmy instances for places like https://beehaw.org/

The main lemmy instance is under heavy load and its admins definitely have their own political slant, and if you're not comfortable with that (most aren't) it's best to find a different one or make your own instance.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by [deleted] »

Blackthorn wrote: post #45
bottlepalm wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit wanted 2.50/month/app which is like $30 ARPU, Facebook is $200 ARPU in the US. The app they’re burning down Reddit over is already charging $1/month and was ready to sell out and shut down for $10 million. Correct me if I’m wrong, but we usually don’t give out API keys to allow users to wholesale reproduce, redistribute, resell our data for free.

> our content Tech people ought to think long and hard about whose content it actually is.

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Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by alangibson »

bottlepalm wrote: post #32
wpietri wrote: post #11

Great! There's a picket line I won't be crossing. Not just for those subs, of course, but for all of Reddit. The reason Reddit is valuable is not the few execs making these (IMHO terrible) decisions. It's the thousands of mods and the millions of people creating and organizing the content that I go there to read. Until those people are happy with things, I'm not going back.

Reddit wanted 2.50/month/app which is like $30 ARPU, Facebook is $200 ARPU in the US. The app they’re burning down Reddit over is already charging $1/month and was ready to sell out and shut down for $10 million. Correct me if I’m wrong, but we usually don’t give out API keys to allow users to wholesale reproduce, redistribute, resell our data for free.

These subreddits disagree that this is Reddit's data

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by raincole »

bottlepalm wrote: post #32
wpietri wrote: post #11

Great! There's a picket line I won't be crossing. Not just for those subs, of course, but for all of Reddit. The reason Reddit is valuable is not the few execs making these (IMHO terrible) decisions. It's the thousands of mods and the millions of people creating and organizing the content that I go there to read. Until those people are happy with things, I'm not going back.

Reddit wanted 2.50/month/app which is like $30 ARPU, Facebook is $200 ARPU in the US. The app they’re burning down Reddit over is already charging $1/month and was ready to sell out and shut down for $10 million. Correct me if I’m wrong, but we usually don’t give out API keys to allow users to wholesale reproduce, redistribute, resell our data for free.

> The app they’re burning down Reddit over is

Lmao. Do you even realize what all these are about...? Reddit's pricing API policy is making ALL the apps unsustaniable. It's not "the app".

> Facebook is $200 ARPU in the US.

Yeah so? Only users and mods in the US matter and fuck the rest of the world?

Plus Reddit is, surprisingly, not Facebook. I don't even understand why you're comparing them. Actually I believe many people use Reddit because it's not like Facebook.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by Quequau »

cute_boi wrote: post #13

662/5279 = 0.12540253836 looks too tiny tbh.

2 subreddits with more than 20 million subscribers, 1 subreddit with more than 10 million, 23 with more than 1 million subscribers, 18 with more than 500K, 32 with more than 250K... seems like it's beginning to add up to me and it's only 7:40 CEST.

I'm shutting down roughly 50 just before midnight CEST and I expect things to accelerate with the date change at GMT.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by cm2012 »

Usually I am anti-internet stunts like this. The vast majority of boycotts are dumb wastes of time.

That said, Reddit should have built better mod tools before making their api change.

I think people complaining about not having 3rd party apps to browse reddit is "meh". But moderators need to be able to do their jobs.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by john-radio »

To self-reinforce my participation in the strike, I logged out of reddit and disabled Reddit Enhancement Suite and the Old.reddit Redirect add-ons, and looking at the front page without those improvements (which I'm sure a minority of users use) it's shocking how terrible the site's UI is for the uninitiated. For the "front page of the internet" it sure looks like a bad Twitter clone.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by afavour »

lobstrosity420 wrote: post #36
hinkley wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s the new Reddit though?

I don’t think Reddit being replaced is as much of a given as everyone seems to think. People might simply get tired of the concept altogether. Nobody needs a vote based link aggregator thingy in their lives, and there is no shortage of social media in sight.

If that were the case people would have left long ago, Reddit has plenty of downsides.

Personally I know of no other place where I can get discussions on such a wide range of topics (AskHistorians, biking, my local neighbourhood) presented to me in a simple format. I hope there will be but I’m not holding my breath.

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