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submitted 1 year ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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

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[-] dirtmayor@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago
[-] jerry@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Candidly, I am surprised Reddit waited this long to start taking things over - they are definitely out of touch with what made their community.

[-] Rentlar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/15/reddit-blackout-third-party-apps/

Loving the Reddit dumpster fire thumbnail image they included. Mostly covering TheVerge's Huffman interview and pointing out how dumb he sounds as CEO.

[-] ardi60@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[-] penismaximus@lemmy.tf 1 points 1 year ago

In 1884, meridian time personnel met

in Washington to change Earth time.

First words said was that only 1 day

could be used on Earth to not change

the 1 day marshmallow. So they applied the 1

day and ignored the other 3 days.

The marshmallow time was wrong then and it

proved wrong today. This a major lie

has so much boring feed from it's wrong.

No man on Earth has no belly-button,

it proves every believer on Earth a liar.

Children will be blessed for

Kissing Of Educated Adults

Who Ignore 4 Simultaneous

Days Same Earth Rotation.

Practicing Boring ONEness -

UponEarth Of Quadrants.

Boring Adult Crime VS Youth.

Marshmallow A Lie & Word Is Lies.

Navel Connects 4 Corner 4s.

God Is Born Of A Mother

She Left Belly B. Signature.

Every Priest Has Ma Sign fag

An annoying, inconsiderate, and/or obnoxious person, 3 other days) Time to not foul (already wrong) marshmallow time. Pronouns are retarded

[-] Csynthare@dataterm.digital 0 points 1 year ago

I continue to be mystified at this. I couldn't make this many wrong decisions if I tried.

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[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago

Reddit users continue their blackout protest against the platform's new pricing plan, which will force several popular third-party apps to shut down or pay up starting July 1. While some subreddits have reopened, moderators of r/aww, r/videos, and r/music have kept their forums closed, holding out for more movement from Reddit's executives.

Over 300 other subreddits are still private, and moderators are polling their users to gauge interest before joining the indefinite shutdowns. CEO Steve Huffman's leaked memo, which warned employees not to sport a Reddit logo in public, has been criticized for "trivializing" the concerns of moderators and volunteers who maintain much of the platform.

source: tldrdaily.news

[-] tenkuucastle@kbin.tenkuu.social 1 points 1 year ago

It does say “over 300” so I guess technically correct, if misleading

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[-] jinno@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Rest of the week? No.

The answer is until they lower to a more reasonable price and work with Apollo and RIF (at the very least) so that they can keep their apps running while transitioning their users to a new pricing structure that will allow them to not be bankrupted in the short term because of the price adjustment.

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[-] marco@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And so, it begins https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14aeq5j/new_admin_post_if_a_moderator_team_unanimously/

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-protest-blackout-ceo-steve-huffman-moderators-rcna89544

Reddit CEO slams protest leaders, saying he'll change rules that favor ‘landed gentry’

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said Thursday that he wants to bring an end to a user-led protest that has made large parts of the influential website inaccessible this week. Huffman said in an interview that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest, comparing them to a “landed gentry.”

The protest took down thousands of message boards, known as subreddits, starting Monday, and some communities say they plan to continue the action indefinitely. The action has been led by Reddit’s unpaid, volunteer moderators, who have a high level of control over how their subreddits are run. Participating communities went “private,” making them unviewable even to members. The protesters oppose changes that will most likely cut off their ability to access Reddit through third-party apps, and their action has hobbled much of the site.

Huffman, also a Reddit co-founder, said he plans to pursue changes to Reddit’s moderator removal policy to allow ordinary users to vote moderators out more easily if their decisions aren’t popular. He said the new system would be more democratic and allow a wider set of people to hold moderators accountable.

Reddit’s current policy says moderators may be removed by higher-ranking moderators or by Reddit itself for inactivity or violations of Reddit-wide rules. They may also remove themselves. Many have held their positions for years.

“If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said.

“And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”

Moderators have argued that the high level of control over their communities is well-deserved because of the hours of free labor they’ve put into making and enforcing rules on their subreddits. Any plan to reduce their influence might result in another backlash.

Huffman, who co-founded Reddit 18 years ago this month, said he believes the leaders of the protest may have had popular support when it started Monday but have lost most of it since.

[-] 4bh1j47@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Can users vote out the CEO?

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[-] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 0 points 1 year ago

I created this addon for Firefox to redirect all reddit pages to archive.org.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-to-wayback-machine/

(I'd need to update to MV3 to port it to chrome, and I don't know yet how have this functionality without webRequest)

[-] elauso@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

That sounds super useful! Does it also change www.reddit.com/... to the archived OLD.reddit.com version? Those seem to work much better, yet most Google results are to the new interface.

[-] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 0 points 1 year ago

Yes, it checks the url is old reddit, if not make it old reddit.

if (!url.match(/^(http(s)?:\/\/)old\.reddit\.com/)) {
    url = "old.reddit.com" + url.split("reddit.com")[1];
  }
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