hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, its aftermath, and what’s happening going forward, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! thanks! we’ll see if we need to cycle the thread again before the end of this week, but i don’t know that we’ll need to

  • comicallycluttered@beehaw.orgEnglish
    14·
    2 years ago

    Welp.

    Looks like a lot of mods are caving.

    The excuse: “if the mods didn’t open the sub, they’ll replace them with shills”. 'Kay. And now that we know these mods will do what the admins ask when their precious power is threatened?

    Well, I guess sabotage is valid approach, so I give the mods who are doing that at least a bit of credit.

    /r/pics is making a stand in its own weird way.

    /r/Steam just caved without much of a fight, if their sticky is anything to go by. While the mods aren’t doing anything, it does seem like there’s a bit of a user revolt where a few people are just posting pictures of literal water vapor (ie. “steam”).

    /r/piracy mods seemed to give them enough of an issue that the admins de-modded the top mod and forced the sub open, but the mods seems to be taking the approach of “only sticking around to give you the coordinates to our new island”.

    Honestly, though, it’s kind of hilarious that reddit considers /r/piracy of all subs to be integral to the site. How many times have they tried to shut it down now?

    Everyone on that sub should just spam Nintendo stuff. Like, nothing else. Watching reddit piss off Nintendo and getting C&Ds from them would be oddly cathartic.

    One of two things happens if people do that: A) the mods trying to “save” it have to actually keep it restricted to prevent getting DMCAs (lol, the irony), or B) admins just nuke the sub. Either are a win, IMO. Seems like they’re giving their users enough time to migrate and they’re probably going to jump ship soon.

  • Sooperstition@lemmy.oneEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Huffman / spez is trying to follow the same outrage farming playbook that countless other rich guys like Trump and Musk have followed.

    1. Gain money and/or control over something prominent that more or less works
    2. Identify targets that you want to hurt or screw over
    3. Make big changes that damage the thing you control with no time for your targets to adjust
    4. When your targets complain or protest, double down and don’t apologize or change course
    5. Cultivate a critical mass of smoothbrained useful idiots that enjoy the way you stick to your guns and hurt others
    6. ???
    7. Profit. Literally. You’ll have a smaller base, but they’re loyal and you can make money off of them.

    The question is whether spez will get to step 5. He’s already gotten to step 4.

    • cykablyatbot@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Ironically I think most of the Twitter outrage is just on Reddit. Most other people seem to be carrying on like usual, albeit with a few hiccups. Although I don’t have a Twitter account so maybe my vantage point isn’t the best.

    • darkmugglet@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I am a waiting for the slander and libel suits to land. Seems like RIF and Apollo devs have a good case. It would be epic if Reddit had to pay them each $20m.

  • Nicktar@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    German it magazine iX has an interview with the mods of r/de. I don’t know if this was mentioned here before…

    Interview (German)

    Short summary: the mods of the large German communities see a huge issue with reddit not recognizing content creators and mods work and there seems to be growing support for an ongoing blackout or so they say.

    • darkmugglet@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      That article sums up my view pretty well. Huffman has alienated his users, advertisers and potential employees. Reddit is changing the symbiotic relationship between itself and the third party ecosystem that made Reddit was it is today, and has gone full parasite.

      But agreed, the Reddit dumpster fire pic is awesome.

    • SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.atEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I can only imagine that 5his wasn’t a recent interview, but I know it’s not the case. He’s completely lost it. Very out of touch with what made Reddit Reddit.

  • 0x815@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data

    Operators broke into Reddit on February 5, 2023, and took 80 gigabytes (zipped) of data. Reddit was emailed twice by operators, once on April 13 and one again on June 16.

    There was no attempt to find out what we took.

    In our last email to them, we stated that we wanted $4.5 million in exchange for the deletion of the data and our silence. As we also stated, if we had to make this public, then we now demand that they also withdraw their API pricing changes along with our money or we will leak it.

    We expect to leak the data.

  • LakesLem@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    To be honest, maybe I should care about Reddit politics but I don’t really. And so I feel like the mods of the communities I enjoyed are forcing me into protest against my will. But seemingly they have the power to effectively shut Reddit down and so here we are.

    The biggest loss is tech support topics. Most useful Google searches lead to Reddit.

  • DarkWasp@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Something I’ve seen pointed out is that if Reddit ultimately does shift to a more “democratic” model of voting mods in and out, that could easily be abused by bot farms or for nefarious purposes. Everything about the future direction the site is heading sounds bleak and barely what it once was.