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Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by philistine »

joobus wrote: post #110
rany_ wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Besides this boycott is at best useless, most are only going offline for 48 hours; it should be permanent until they reverse the decision if they were being sincere.

The third-party apps shutting down on July 1st will be the real test. If Reddit notices a significant drop in traffic on that day, they will probably start walking back the change. I agree that this boycott, while the intention is good, won't do much.

The true number to look at is not traffic, it’s moderation actions. The real problem is the site will get harder to moderate without the API.

And it’s why you have the strike; Reddit is not at risk of dying, it’s at risk of becoming even worse that it already is.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by macintux »

ben_w wrote: post #76
candiddevmike wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What power? Reddit can just takeover the subs and turn them back on.

And do they want to put in the same effort to curating those communities as the moderators there've just overruled? Communities can thrive or fail depending on who is in charge. (What happened with regard to the mod banning an artist because they thought their art looked like it came from an AI? Last I heard the artist was able to show their workflow but the mod was unwilling to back down…)

They just have to keep the communities viable until the IPO; I'm sure they can find new moderators who are unsympathetic to the strike to keep the lights on that long.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by microtonal »

joecot wrote: post #131
khalladay wrote: post #29

Does subreddits going dark for 2 days matter? Seems like an insignificant ampunt of disruption to make much of a difference, or am I wrong?

The initial plan was 2 days. Then Spez did his AMA where it was clear they were not interested in compromising, not planning to change anything, even seeing the enormous protest forming. So while some subreddits are still planning on 2 days, a growing number of them are going dark indefinitely until reddit rolls back this plan.

Also, quite some people seem to be removing their accounts along with all their post history. Maybe not in numbers that are significant to make it a ghost town, but in some subreddits you already see gaps appearing in prior discussions.

For some niches, Reddit's comment history is basically like a knowledge base and it's slowly being torn apart. If the group of signal-noise contributors that nukes their whole history grows, it devalues Reddit in another way as well.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by martini_p »

drumhead wrote: post #105

The cheek of Reddits management is incredible. They've taken hundreds of millions in VC money hired an army of developers and yet delivered nothing to improve the user experience. All we seem to have have got out of is new reddit, a terrible, slow facebook like version of the site and an absolutely terrible mobile app. Where the hell did the money go? They use the time, labour, creativity, stories, humour, talent, wi…

This sounds a lot like https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by jeltz »

bottlepalm wrote: post #129
raincole wrote: post #56

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> 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 p…

If you ran a website, would you allow 3rd parties to reproduce and sell your data for free?

Yes, I do. I give users access to the API for free and then I do not monitor their use of it. So it is almost certsin that some of our competitors scrape our site and use our data for free.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by drexlspivey »

WXLCKNO wrote: post #145
drumhead wrote: post #105

The cheek of Reddits management is incredible. They've taken hundreds of millions in VC money hired an army of developers and yet delivered nothing to improve the user experience. All we seem to have have got out of is new reddit, a terrible, slow facebook like version of the site and an absolutely terrible mobile app. Where the hell did the money go? They use the time, labour, creativity, stories, humour, talent, wi…

I found out yesterday that they have 2000 employees. I realize most of these people are not engineers but what in the hell have they been spending their time on. Terrible

They raised $250m 2 years ago and have tripled their workforce since. Now they're losing money of course but why do they need to IPO if they raised so much money recently?

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by michaelmrose »

dingusdew wrote: post #51
hinkley wrote: post #25

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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 you…

> 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.

From casual use alone this isn't clear to me can you explain?

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by princevegeta89 »

jimmytucson wrote: post #144

For the uninitiated, $2.52/month is what it would cost users to browse Reddit with Apollo under the current API pricing. RIF would be just $0.73/month[1]. For comparison, Reddit Premium is $5.99/month[2]. [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/comment/... [2] https://www.reddit.com/premium

I don't see why the fuck anyone would buy reddit Premium. Enough with these subscriptions;
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