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

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Post by s1artibartfast »

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…

Yeah, it's an interesting experiment and democracy and or authoritarianism. Subreddit mods have made the decision to take the subs private. There seems to be some popular support but it isn't Universal. Those that don't care about the issue can recreate those subs and continue posting.

It will be interesting to see how things play out over time.

Edit: is interesting to note the knee jerk negative reaction to this comment. I don't think it contains anything controversial and is a simple statement of reality

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

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Post by George83728 »

karmakurtisaani wrote: post #5
hitpointdrew wrote: post #3

"Let's use Reddit to promote boycotting Reddit!"

Why is that a bad idea again?

Because it makes other people (such as myself, and probably reddit management I'm guessing) think you aren't very serious and you'll come crawling back to reddit after you get bored of this protest.

Do prove me wrong, because I'd really like to see reddit die. But I'm not counting any chickens until they hatch.

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

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Post by Fauntleroy »

veave wrote: post #53

I hope the admins of reddit will start taking control of the closed subs and opening them up. The content of each one of those subs has been written by the users and it makes no sense that a handful of mods are taking the content and holding it hostage by keeping the subs private. If I were a contributor to one of those subs (for example by posting answers to programming questions) I would be fuming.

...so that the admins of reddit can exploit their content instead?

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

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Post by NotYourLawyer »

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.

> why be a moderator for a for-profit company if you aren't being paid?

This is the sole, minuscule bit of power that most mods have in their lives. It’s sad.

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

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Post by ddorian43 »

Exuma wrote: post #56
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?

This is a very stupid question - but can someone explain what the "interest rates" and "no more free money" replies mean? Is it because reddit isn't profitable so relies on constant money supply from investors? Or is it something else

Low interest rates make people do very high risk bets (stocks,startups,crypto).

Increasing rates will make people more risk aware.

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

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Post by NotYourLawyer »

quaintdev wrote: post #40

Reddit has become pretty popular in India and this new population is okay with new site and policy changes because they simply are not aware of what Reddit use to be. Reddit blackout has almost 0 effect on Indian subreddits. Reddit still has numbers to show even if most subreddit are down. Just check r/India r/Mumbai r/Banglore r/Delhi r/Pune and other India subreddits and you will see.

I’m sure that fact will really pump up demand for their IPO.

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Post by Maxburn »

idiotsecant wrote: post #46
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…

This is the thing I don't get, reddit is getting a heck of a free ride with all these mods. You'd think they would do everything within their power to enable them so why kick them in the nuts?

Also the "power" users would probably be happy to pay reasonable prices to interact with it via app/api, so go ahead and charge something REASONABLE.

There's something nefarious going on behind the scenes and it's all very suspicious. I'm happy to go back to targeted forums if I need to.

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

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Post by silverbax88 »

codetrotter wrote: post #62
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…

> a viable, popular alternative Popular? No. Viable? Yes. Try https://zapad.nstr.no/ it’s my instance. If even a handful of people would join I think that would be nice.

Will you be adding the ability to create communities?

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

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Post by WhiteDawn »

I am curious how this will all settle out in the end. I think the majority of users don’t really care about the API or subreddits going private as they primarily just lurk.

However, the people that do care are the ones that moderate and contribute the vast majority of the content that the larger group enjoys.

I am pessimistic that the minority here will win out in the end, but the majority may begin to lose interest if the quality of new content drops.

At least for myself, the blackout gave me enough space away from the site to consider if my time on Reddit was valuable/enjoyable and basically I concluded it is not worth the time. I’ve uninstalled the app and I haven’t really missed a thing.

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