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Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by mattl »

LordShredda wrote: post #810
iaw wrote: post #786

I think Huffman is falling into a trap that Kanye and Mark Zuckerberg have fallen into: trying to prove he's special. Kanye rose to fame as a young genius rapper/producer/designer and was acclaimed repeatedly. Zuckerberg rose to fame as a brilliant business twenty-something (according to the world around). They spent half their life being praised and told they're important, brilliant, special, prescient, etc. So they…

It was not a lamp stack for sure. Linux maybe but prototype reddit was in lisp

Common Lisp and then I think the current site is mostly Python.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by weaksauce »

goykasi wrote: post #379
atraac wrote: post #350

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They are trying to keep the main, core userbase happy. But there's a very simple way to do that... sit down with people, figure out a solution that doesn't involve a single dev spending 20m USD a year just to maintain an app that people like. There's multitudes of ways this whole thing could've been solved, they clearly don't wont to solve it. Paid API is NOT going to make reddit profitable, especially at this pric…

100% agreement with you here. You have one of the first logical arguments for any push back. > figure out a solution that doesn't involve a single dev spending 20m USD a year just to maintain an app that people like Absolutely, I was hoping that would happen when I saw the first Apollo thread(s) a few weeks ago. But Christian took this very personally, and he decided to take his toys and go home. reddit is not at all…

they were going to force him to pay 2million a month starting in a month. what else could he do other than "take his toys and go home" which is a very reductive statement.

they could have served ads to the api. they could have had some profit sharing agreement. any routes it could have gone but they chose the most antagonistic one.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by goykasi »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #809
taude wrote: post #789

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you deserve to have no ads? Reddit isn't a community service. I do think that for moderators, they could have some special app to help them do their jobs easier, but for regular users, meh, the ads are easy enough to scroll past, like in other social media outfits. I also don't agree that the mobile app is shitty.

> Why do you deserve to have no ads? Because my attention belongs to me. Exclusively. It's not yours. It's not reddit's. It's not Google's. It doesn't belong to anyone other than I, certainly not a corporation. It's not a currency that can be used to pay for services. They do not have the right to sell it off to the highest bidder. I deserve not to be advertised to for the same reasons women deserve not to be raped:…

Wow wtf. You have some serious issues. First, I agree that your attention belongs to you, and you are 100% in your right to go elsewhere. Reddit is not forcing you to view their ads.

But second, you are unhinged if you think this is a reasonable comment:

> I deserve not to be advertised to for the same reasons women deserve not to be raped

Wow

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by taude »

moi2388 wrote: post #796
taude wrote: post #789

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you deserve to have no ads? Reddit isn't a community service. I do think that for moderators, they could have some special app to help them do their jobs easier, but for regular users, meh, the ads are easy enough to scroll past, like in other social media outfits. I also don't agree that the mobile app is shitty.

Because ads are worse than cancer. The fact companies are allowed to jam them into your eyeballs without consent is absolutely ludicrous.

how so? I just slide by them and move on with my life.

It's absolutely mind-blowing to me the entitlement people have thinking they should get things for free.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by max51 »

marcell wrote: post #113

Making a subreddit private is a built in, native reddit feature. If the mods are still actively moderating, just doing so in a private community, how is it breaking any rules? Sounds like they are just making use of a reddit feature.

They are not " still actively moderating, just doing so in a private community", they are shutting down their community for everyone.

If you want to equate legal with morally good, the changes they are making to their API is technically not "breaking any rules" and banning all the mods that are shutting down subs would also not break any rules. Doesn't mean it was a good idea or that we should encourage it

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by taude »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #809
taude wrote: post #789

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you deserve to have no ads? Reddit isn't a community service. I do think that for moderators, they could have some special app to help them do their jobs easier, but for regular users, meh, the ads are easy enough to scroll past, like in other social media outfits. I also don't agree that the mobile app is shitty.

> Why do you deserve to have no ads? Because my attention belongs to me. Exclusively. It's not yours. It's not reddit's. It's not Google's. It doesn't belong to anyone other than I, certainly not a corporation. It's not a currency that can be used to pay for services. They do not have the right to sell it off to the highest bidder. I deserve not to be advertised to for the same reasons women deserve not to be raped:…

The moment you log into someone else website, your attention no longer belongs to you, FYI. Not sure who told you it should work differently.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by cand0r »

zuppy wrote: post #325
nosebear wrote: post #216

Personally, I couldn't care less about Reddit itself, but what's really annoying is that half of my Google searches end up in temporarily closed subreddits. Reddit has become some sort of a Stack Overflow lately - I hope all that knowledge will be moved somewhere else.

just add “cache:” before the url (without the quotes, without any extra space), most of the time it works. it should go to google cache in most browsers.

Thank you. I was lost after they removed the cached version button on Google results. The link got progressively buried before it disappeared, I think.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by aprdm »

idkyall wrote: post #801
iaw wrote: post #786

I think Huffman is falling into a trap that Kanye and Mark Zuckerberg have fallen into: trying to prove he's special. Kanye rose to fame as a young genius rapper/producer/designer and was acclaimed repeatedly. Zuckerberg rose to fame as a brilliant business twenty-something (according to the world around). They spent half their life being praised and told they're important, brilliant, special, prescient, etc. So they…

Look, I'm not the biggest Mark Zuckerberg fan or anything, but I don't think the thus-far questionable business decision to pivot to the metaverse is quite the same level as having an very public mental breakdown and making anti-semitic remarks

Yeah exactly. I have issues with what social media does to people and some of what Mark has done.. but he is nowhere near my level of despise for Musk, Kanye or others in that circle.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by fluidcruft »

iaw wrote: post #786

I think Huffman is falling into a trap that Kanye and Mark Zuckerberg have fallen into: trying to prove he's special. Kanye rose to fame as a young genius rapper/producer/designer and was acclaimed repeatedly. Zuckerberg rose to fame as a brilliant business twenty-something (according to the world around). They spent half their life being praised and told they're important, brilliant, special, prescient, etc. So they…

The whole Meta thing frankly seemed like a suspicious PR move. At the time the remaking was announced Facebook was being dragged into Congress. Suddenly the headlines switched from Facebook this and Facebook that to Meta this and Meta that. Even today reporters are constantly getting themselves into tongue twisters about it.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by cand0r »

robotburrito wrote: post #804

Life has been nicer without Reddit. The last few days opened my eyes. I could actually just enjoy SF without having /r/sanfrancisco convince me that I don't live in the pleasant place I see out my window, but rather a mad max style dystopian hell hole that is worse than most war torn nations. The detox has been nice. I think many others may feel the same.

Same. HN has been my replacement for now. I'll look into Lemmy, but it's nice here.
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