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Re: The Reddit blackout will continue

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Post by exreddit »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #125

This is reminding me of when all the Vine power creators banded together and tried to make demands or they would "stop creating" and all it resulted in was Twitter deleting them and their entire website. Don't be surprised if Reddit starts taking some pretty drastic action here on the grounds that they're violating one of the site's oldest rules which is "don't break Reddit". Not saying it's good or bad, but just tha…

Vine is no more, Twitter is a punchline, and TikTok took Vine's idea and ran with it.

Re: The Reddit blackout will continue

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Post by ahahahahah »

Whatarethese wrote: post #118

No offense to the commentators in this post but do y'all just lay down and take everything that comes at you without a hint of objection? Yeah I get that it's a silly website but it's one that some people have been on for 10+ years.

Yeah, I agree. What do you think we can do to remove these whiny mods and open up these subreddits to get reddit back to the site I enjoy. Are you suggesting that we organize against them in some way?

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Post by tao_oat »

zmmmmm wrote: post #136

I think a different approach would work better at this point. They need to stay up but use their subreddits to publicly plan Reddit "exits" for each community. Subreddits should start polls on where migrate to (discord, lemmy, mastodon, etc etc), and then start systematically cross posting anything posted to their subreddit to the new space, with comments turned off on the Reddit version. The key in a negotiation is…

Reddit announced a 5% headcount reduction a week ago: https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-lay-off-about-5-wo...

Re: The Reddit blackout will continue

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Post by esquivalience »

mattmanser wrote: post #127
bredren wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Enough with the ChatGPT already. If you didn't write it, don't post it.

I thought the approach was interesting. It's being used here as an empathy engine: what might (other people) say?

Re: The Reddit blackout will continue

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Post by INTPenis »

This whole model of social media in today's internet is unsustainable.

We will undoubtedly move towards a future internet with two main camps. The corporate social media where users have to either pay to play, or be locked into walled gardens without their consent, or sometimes even knowledge.

The other camp will be various decentralized platforms such as the fediverse and others.

We had a relatively quick (in historical terms) break from the user-driven internet after the early 2000s, but it's coming back in force. If you want freedom then it has to be user-driven, it can't be profit-driven.

Re: The Reddit blackout will continue

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Post by ggm »

The app I use (joey) has a standout behaviour which is ideal for tablet and phone: long press on many inputs makes it do a pop out which vanishes when you let go. So you can see images full-size, expand headlines, even scroll comments, many ops work one handed.

As a skim mode view its unbeatable. Since the mainstream app does not do this, I will personally lose functionality I use significantly.

Re: The Reddit blackout will continue

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Post by frankacter »

aniforprez wrote: post #116
frankacter wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not accurate. From the data presented, in aggregate, >90% fall well within the free tier of usage (100 API calls per minute for OAuth logged in client). The majority of the remaining fall into a $1/month tier [1]. Certainly there are some outliers that exceed those ranges and unfortunately the majority of the spotlight seems to be on the smallest of the populace. It is also worth noting that app developers ca…

Why would you take the word of reddit management on this issue? That seems like the least trustworthy source here

Because they have gone on public record with those numbers and as of yet, no one has refuted them.

Do you have an alternate source of user level data that breaks down average vs. outliers and that ratio that you feel is more accurate?

The free tier is 100 queries per minute for an OAuth logged in client per the public statement, and that number has also been stated by a few 3rd party app developers.

That is a lot for the average user, especially for a well optimized app.

Re: The Reddit blackout will continue

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Post by reagent_finder »

reso wrote: post #71

Is there something counter-intuitive about reddit that makes it hard to monetize? That's the core issue. Reddit still makes barely $1/user/month while instagram makes $35. Cutting off the 3rd party apps is a cost-cutting move, not a revenue-generating move. Why haven't they managed to find more revenue? I'm loath to say it but Huffman has had a decade to solve this and hasn't. Might be time for new leadership with ne…

The biggest problem with Reddit is that their only source of revenue basically demands you to create a completely new ad for ONLY that platform. For everything else you can just make an iframe, drop whatever malicious blinking crap you want, send it to the wild and let ad networks sell and resell space and sometimes drop your ad in it, pay pennies for clicks and even less pennies for each time it's been served.

They haven't tried to enter any ad ecosystem, haven't tried to monetize the massive amount of creativity or anything on the platform. Granted, it's really hard to say "Hey, we've shown your news article to 10 million people, pls pay us" when the news site itself is struggling to get any revenue from those millions of clicks. Not to mention the site might have a question reddit reeeeallly doesn't want to answer "So, was it in a neo-nazi subforum or a porn subforum?"

Yeah, there's just been nothing in ten years. An IPO at this point is nothing but a cash grab awaiting the death of the platform.

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