Reddit is just a Karen now
I’m surprised none of the big subs decided to say “ok, fuck you.” And nuke the sub
Given the lows to which Reddit has stooped lately, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Reddit respond to that by filing a lawsuit against the mod seeking nine figures in damages.
Which makes me hope even more somebody does it.
If they attemtped this Reddit admins would 100% revert it and ban whoever agreed to do it.
They can’t delete it as far as I am aware. They could delete all posts and perma-private it I think, but that would be extremely tedious and the admins could revert everything a lot easier.
When you’re working within their frameworks, effective protests are limited. It’s why I just left.
Reddit would crumble badly very soon is those unpaid mods just immediately give up. The chaos will definitely doom Reddit and fast.
But it’s clear that mods there would rather suffer than give up their made up power.
Hard to give yo virtual power when its all you have sitting in your mothers basement eating cheezy poof because you’re a good mod…
Of all the assorted protests I saw, I liked what interestingasfuck did the most. Just said “f it, here is what subs will look like with the bare minimum modding” and walked away. Mess up their front page, their advertising, and actually show what an unmodded major reddit sub would look like.
If every sub had done that instead of some milquetoast 48 hour blackout, I think it would have been at least moderately more impactful.
Reddit declined to comment
That means what The Verge says is 100% correct. Reddit will speak when there’s corrections to make. :-)
Reddit can get f’ed.
Also, please donate so that we can have lemmy servers up all the time.
These actions are further diminishing the public’s trust in them.
Im betting they are counting on most users just not being involved or caring.
They’re probably right, depressingly.
I can’t make anyone else leave, but I did what I could by leaving personally. I am generally enjoying the experience over here more anyway, so I am not missing a whole lot. Maybe a couple niche subs, but I was considering working on launching equivalent communities over here.
That a Welsh username by chance?
And yea, thoroughly depressing… I find the situation similar to the old micro transaction / shit game port situation where the masses couldn’t care less and the small minority rebel and have little to no effect.
Sadly those that care about these things are generally grossly outweighed by those that couldn’t give a toss. I haven’t been back to Reddit for 4-5 weeks now and as a very early Reddit adopter I thought the break would be harder than what it has been. I have mentioned in a few posts here that the most surprisong thing to me is how often I was being served subtle ads guised in the form of content on Reddit. In 4 weeks or more I don’t think I have seen a brand as such mentioned on Lemmy yet with Reddit it was legit every dozen posts. I knew this went on, but it took a week or so on Lemmy for me to realise the actual extent of it…
Good riddance to the place, Lemmy feels like the early doors of the internet and I’m quite comfortable here :)
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actual ad
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weekly repost of video from Youtuber who’s been pushing their content to the front page every week for several months
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actual ad
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random PR post from some Hollywood star’s agency: nobody knows about their secret charity work that we’ve told millions of people about every month!
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comedian advertising their standup show on reddit
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wow look at this tshirt/gadget/macguffin that I absolutely must have! If only I knew where to find it…
It’s ads all the way down.
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They are losing 1. Quality in UGC; 2. Quantity in UGC; and 3. Unpaid mods, which are all considered most important assets in terms of their (Spez’s) IPO.
Are they losing enough to have an impact to their ad traffic however? Something reddit definitely have lost is the monopoly on online communities, now there’s a bunch of alternatives that people use which has definitely reduced the value of reddit.
I’m really interested to see what happens at the end of this week. I have a group of friends that all hang out in discord and out of the group (about 12 of us) I’m the only one that’s moved on from Reddit. Every time I see one of them post a Reddit link I want to say something but I just keep quiet and don’t follow the links. I’m guessing this is just going to blow over for 90% of the people on Reddit and I’m fine with that but it is somewhat depressing to me folks aren’t as bothered by what they are doing to third party apps.
I saw a couple days ago they are not even respecting subreddits that were actually private from the beginning. I saw the mod of a private breastfeeding group freaking out because they were going to make the whole thing public.
The private breastfeeding WHAT? Mother of God, this is vilest of the vile. And, speaking of u/spez, that really is saying something…
So I assume this means they will open up their shitty lounge that you need Premium to access, right?
Their tools are just not up to keep track of all these things.
If only someone developed some third-party tools that could better help them with their job…
I literally used the default Reddit app all the time, they made so much ad revenue off of me.
Now they are making none.
Fuck /u/spez. When it was just the API changes I might have grudgingly continued using reddit, but after this display I don’t think I will. Reddit has shown yet again that huge social media companies cannot be trusted to act in the interests of their users.
Yeah, I was still considering using it only on PC after they ruined third-party apps, but after this sequence of events I can’t stand being on that platform.
That’s where I’m at as well.
I was under the impression that I’d just hit it up on desktop every once and again. But now? I feel dirty using the site at all. Really hard to feel comfortable supporting that kind of behavior.
I’ve dropped all but two of my subs over the years so they have no power there. Those who don’t migrate or unsub must be kinky that way. As consenting adults they are free to do whatever they want. Not my problem, anymore.
