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Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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Post by ghostpepper »

idiotsecant wrote: post #12

It seems to me like this is turning into a subreddit migration in slow motion. A lot people still want to post content and a lot of people still want to read content, so what's happening is people are posting it to the less popular 'alternative' versions of the popular subreddits and those posts make the frontpage instead. It seems like there is a noticeable decline in quality but i'm still seeing quite a bit of post…

Just don't tell them that this place exists or we could have an eternal september situation on HN.

Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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Post by kramerger »

baby wrote: post #35

I said it before, and I’ll say it again. This is a huge opportunity for Facebook. They sort of tried to do Reddit in the past and ended up with shitty Facebook groups. If I were them, I would rush to add some reddit features to Facebook group (reddit-like threads, upvotes/downvotes) or try to launch something new that’s more like reddit on top of the facebook/insta social graph. Just call it “Groups”

Facebook?

I'm all in favour of bringing back G+

Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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Post by bena »

All reddit has to do is remove the ability for subreddits to be private. Or put the ability to make subreddits private behind a paywall. Much like how Github treated private repos.

End of the day, reddit is going to have to figure out how many users are willing to boycott. Moderators are one thing. They are a minority. But if they remove the ability for /r/funny to be private, would users honor the protest?

The subs that have ended their blackouts are going on like nothing happened.

Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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Post by MuffinFlavored »

major subreddits keeping reddit alive basically:

r/politics

r/worldnews

r/movies

r/tech

r/television

r/news

r/technology

r/gadgets

r/sports

minor ones i've noticed:

r/indieheads

r/boxing

It's a pretty serious blackout, but it'd be even more serious if those went dark too (and stayed dark).

Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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Post by dotnet00 »

bick_nyers wrote: post #28
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Other people’s opinions are surely different than mine but… I think the subs that have gone dark actually made Reddit better. It’s all the popular subs, and that’s the really low effort, frankly, basic bitch comments. For me, in protesting they’ve improved it.

I've been trying to fix first layer adhesion issues on my 3D printer and all of the relevant subreddits went private. So there's more subs participating than just the popular ones.

To be fair, most of the replies to you would be the same old "have you tried leveling your bed?".

Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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Post by idiotsecant »

cmiles74 wrote: post #15

IMHO, Reddit's charging such a high price for API access that it's as good as unattainable is more of a last straw then anything else. Reddit has been clear that they view the data as their sole property, when you think it through, why be a moderator for a for-profit company if you aren't being paid? I don't know why it took this long for moderators to quit.

I don't think many moderators will actually quit as long as the users are there, especially since reddit gave back some moderator API call access. Moderating is already a terrible, thankless job. The people who do it enjoy moderating because (I assume) they're 'in charge' of something big and important. I don't think reddit closing off third party access will be enough to convince most of these people to stop giving labor for free.

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Post by maxsilver »

pcurve wrote: post #26
idiotsecant wrote: post #12

It seems to me like this is turning into a subreddit migration in slow motion. A lot people still want to post content and a lot of people still want to read content, so what's happening is people are posting it to the less popular 'alternative' versions of the popular subreddits and those posts make the frontpage instead. It seems like there is a noticeable decline in quality but i'm still seeing quite a bit of post…

Yep, I'm seeing smaller subs being bubbled up on my front page. Maybe people will start creating their own subs. There is Saidit https://www.saidit.net/ but it's not really a viable alternative.

I'm not sure why those folks would bother leaving, Saidit is basically identical to what an unmoderated Reddit would look like.

Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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Post by isykt »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #31
idiotsecant wrote: post #12

It seems to me like this is turning into a subreddit migration in slow motion. A lot people still want to post content and a lot of people still want to read content, so what's happening is people are posting it to the less popular 'alternative' versions of the popular subreddits and those posts make the frontpage instead. It seems like there is a noticeable decline in quality but i'm still seeing quite a bit of post…

It's because the Reddit users that are actually bothered by this are unmonetizable and everyone knows it. nobody is eager to jump into that sink hole and Reddit itself is happy to be free of it. A Reddit alternative is something every developer on here thinks they can crank out in a weekend and surely countless of them are actually trying that right now. But the reality is that reddit is a mess and nobody in their ri…

> It's because the Reddit users that are actually bothered by this are unmonetizable and everyone knows it.

Yes, this is exactly the same as the Netflix account sharing controversy. People who aren’t generating the company any profit are shouting the loudest. I don’t think there’s much of a loss here.

The era of free money was always going to end and now it’s over.

Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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Post by SoftTalker »

iameli wrote: post #19

The biggest Reddit communities are in open rebellion. Twitter is, charitably, a mess. Twitch started taking a full 50% of the revenue of their top creators, who are furious. What's going on? What's the bigger trend that's causing all these platforms to go so user-hostile?

> What's the bigger trend that's causing all these platforms to go so user-hostile?

The economy has changed and now they actually have to try to make money.

Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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Post by artogahr »

bick_nyers wrote: post #28
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Other people’s opinions are surely different than mine but… I think the subs that have gone dark actually made Reddit better. It’s all the popular subs, and that’s the really low effort, frankly, basic bitch comments. For me, in protesting they’ve improved it.

I've been trying to fix first layer adhesion issues on my 3D printer and all of the relevant subreddits went private. So there's more subs participating than just the popular ones.

Hey, I've spent considerable amount of time in those subreddits! Maybe I can help? You can reach me on artogahr@gmail.com
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