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The best protest strategy imo was the mass self-deleting of comments and submissions. More users doing that instead of the blackout would have actually hurt reddit long-term by denying them the massive troves of content they use to pull users in from Google.

I guarantee you one of the changes reddit is going to make in the near-term is keep internal version control of posts (if they don't already have them) so they can undelete any posts they want in case a future protest tries to revive the idea.

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Man, at this rate Reddit is never going to go public. It's never a "good time", when was it originally supposed to IPO?
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Two years ago. Trust the plan, bro.
 
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LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
Their reverse image engine which was fairly good is now close to useless with the later actualizations.
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This one really hurts, I went from using it almost daily to forgetting it existed until you just mentioned it as it can't even reverse search movie titles anymore from screen shots of the movie because they gimped it so hard.
 
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Serbian Peacekeepers said:
And to no ones shock but the jannys themselves, this happens. Its almost like holding a entire website hostage because your volunteer work will be slightly harder is a good way to stop being a volunteer. While the reddit Admins and The site itself is gay as fuck, the moderators are infinitely worse.
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It's absolutely hilarious to tab through the article comments on /r/technology and see the mods seething over this - in complete denial and insisting they "can't be replaced" (seriously, any time you see a comment that's getting especially hysterical, you can click on their profile and see they're a mod of a big sub that's still dark).
All linked to this admin comment made about 3 hours ago:
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They're insisting on /r/modcoord that this contradicts the "standing policies" (articles on reddit help that are basically FAQs for people who don't know what a mod is) that moderators can run subreddits as they see fit... as if Reddit can't just decide to change those policies on a dime.
As of right now 5049/8829 participating subreddits are currently dark, the biggest ones being /r/funny, /r/aww, /r/music, /r/science, /r/diy, /r/fitness and /r/videos. I'll be very interested to see what those stats are this time tomorrow, as power hungry mods start realising they can throw their comrades under the bus if they'll work with the admins to reopen. It's actually elegant how well this will disrupt morale when some of the true believers are revealed to be quislings - something out of a union busting tactic handbook, or something.
 
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CrunkLord420 said:
So who do you airdrop into the mod team this time? Will the laissez faire jannies return? I don't think so, they still have to uphold the ESG rating.
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Yep, reddit literally bans these people or plays games to work on banning them. They're not on reddit because power corrupts or faggots are drawn to reddit, at least not initially; reddit was a garden they pruned and, being reddit admins, took out all the herbs; chopped down all the fruit trees; tore out the bushes; cut down the fragrant flowers; and replaced them with jimsonweed and poison ivy.

BTW someone just replied to another post I made where I posted T_Dumbsford with his (I think) daughter BEFORE he went tranny and reminded me of this photo. I should have included it earlier so you could have seen his pre-transition self.

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This is your reddit powermod pre-transition, lol. God, kicking his memory in feels so good.
 
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AssignedEva said:
It's absolutely hilarious to tab through the article comments on /r/technology and see the mods seething over this - in complete denial and insisting they "can't be replaced" (seriously, any time you see a comment that's getting especially hysterical, you can click on their profile and see they're a mod of a big sub that's still dark).
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The thing is the Admins are 100% right, this whole blackout thing clearly goes against rule 2 as it is vandalization. Reddit has already said they are allowing the Accessibility apps to continue free of charge or at least with a heavily reduced cost to use API, which means the only reason to keep the blackout going is because of the lack of mass moderation tools, which is a far cry from how this thing was sold to people. As someone who used reddit for a few niche interests, I don't give a shit about Moderation becoming harder, I already hate moderators with a passion, taking away a sub i like browsing isn't making anyone more sympathetic to you.
And now with certain subs coming back but as "read only" with fart huffing statements about how they are still protesting, but you plebs can now see the content of the sub without adding anything new? How does that even count as a protest??

Frankly I welcome the Jannycaust, send them to the fucking gas chamber, only shower they'd ever take.
 
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Listen, I don't like ads as much as the next guy, but it's rather noticeable that every article says that this will affect all of these "useful third-parts apps" without once mentioning what those apps do. I've seen some stretch as far as claiming it's a disability issue because these apps help with "accessibility" but there isn't a word to try to get anyone who isn't already hyper-online to know why anyone has an issue at all
 
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Second-Hand Boat Supplies said:
Listen, I don't like ads as much as the next guy, but it's rather noticeable that every article says that this will affect all of these "useful third-parts apps" without once mentioning what those apps do. I've seen some stretch as far as claiming it's a disability issue because these apps help with "accessibility" but there isn't a word to try to get anyone who isn't already hyper-online to know why anyone has an issue at all
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Reddit's Mobile App Sucks. The third party apps suck less, are more accessible to screen readers and have better moderation tools.

The for pay 3rd party apps will have to pay commercial API rates.

Non-commercial 3rd party apps, such as mod tools and accessibility apps will not need to pay, they can't show ads or have subscriptions.

Most newfags probably use the Reddit official app, but many mods and disabled folks use the other apps.
 
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CrunkLord420 said:
Reddit Corp absolutely reaping what they had sown with this shit. These jannies are not interested in operating a communication platform, they're interested in censorship, power and authority. Reddit Corp liked that because they would enforce ESG ideology. Turns out jannies actually believed their own propaganda.

So who do you airdrop into the mod team this time? Will the laissez faire jannies return? I don't think so, they still have to uphold the ESG rating. Do you formally hand over control to /r/nba to the NBA, /r/apple to Apple, etc? Honestly that would probably be the for the best. No longer can people attribute janny abuse to random individuals, no, now it's an corporate-sanctioned action that can be followed up on. The nigger cattle won't notice a difference since these shitholes were already globohomo/gov/corporate controlled astroturf zones.
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I wouldn't bet money I'm unwilling to lose on reddit sticking with ESG-compliant mods. Reddit HAD ESG-compliant mods and it turned toxic and is the source of current problems - plus the corporate world has had some rude awakenings that catering to the woke crowd is killing their business.

it's be hilarious if they handed the corpos their own subreddits. If Apple runs r/Apple the same way they run their own support forums it will be extremely toxic with anything seen as a slight against Apple getting you banned - such as asking for help because your iDevice is not working.
 
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Betonhaus said:
it's be hilarious if they handed the corpos their own subreddits. If Apple runs r/Apple the same way they run their own support forums it will be extremely toxic with anything seen as a slight against Apple getting you banned - such as asking for help because your iDevice is not working.
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As I understand that's already the way the Star Trek sub is run.
 
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CrunkLord420 said:
Man, at this rate Reddit is never going to go public. It's never a "good time", when was it originally supposed to IPO?
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Redditors are shit. Reddit jannies are shit. Reddit mods are shit. Reddit admins are shit. Spez is shit, so is every reddit employee or board member. You could drop the whole lot of them into a volcano and nuke it and vastly improve civilization.
 
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It sounds like they are just going to give top mod to any mods in the original mod list who are willing to bend the knee. Pretty clever, since it's basically a multi-party prisoner's dilemma scenario. Most of the big subs have 10+ mods, so someone is going to defect. Then they can just find some new subjannies and teach them the ropes.
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Reminds me of when Saddam took over and had the legislature purge the members he wanted gone, then he put guns in the purge survivors' hands and made them shoot the others, making them complicit in his crime.
 
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cybertoaster said:
like bardfinn and his CP
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I mean In my personal opinion it's CP but the shit Bardfag posts is archival footage of 60's 70's child nudist pageants which sadly are 100% legal at least in the United States.

I'd love for this creepy fuck to go down but he's pretty careful not to cross the line into illegal territory.
 
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Second-Hand Boat Supplies said:
Listen, I don't like ads as much as the next guy, but it's rather noticeable that every article says that this will affect all of these "useful third-parts apps" without once mentioning what those apps do. I've seen some stretch as far as claiming it's a disability issue because these apps help with "accessibility" but there isn't a word to try to get anyone who isn't already hyper-online to know why anyone has an issue at all
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The difference is they actually work and aren't a horrible cluttered eyesore. The difference between RIF and the official app is night and day, I invite you to download it off the app store and see for yourself.

Basically, you have to ask yourself... do you like the functional, to-the-point, utilitarian no-bullshit easy to navigate UI, or do you prefer the more modern web everything-is-too-large Fischer-Price UI design philosophy?

To be perfectly honest RIF is an amazingly-designed app with a straightforward UI and streamlined interface. I use both for browsing for different things and RIF is far and away superior.

It's worth reminding again that the unofficial apps came first, reddit coasted on them for a loooong time until they purchased the worse one made it even worse,

Disregarding everything, it's absolutely a scumbag move to treat the developers this way, because they worked with these devs and grew for a long time because these guys made unofficial apps during reddit's more casual, less business-oriented days. And now they do this with a short notice, as I understand it. Rude.

Imagine you had to use the official windows media plater instead of, say, VLC. It's that kind of difference between the user interfaces.

This is the wrong decision for reddit to make and I applaud it.
 
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reptile baht spaniard rid said:
reddit has spectacularly avoided so many ways to make money off their niggercattle that I'm actually starting to assume it's all a fucking psyop; they could have charged people to see NSFW boards, or if you think that will kill it, charge people to post on said, they could have built fucking onlyfans as part of their nsfw boards (everything is just an onlyfans ad now anyway)

hell they could charge the fucking jannies to mod and they'd paypiggie up just fine

they could have bought working apps and sold access at $10 a month

they avoid making money in every possible way except selling shitty powerupdoots and advertising
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For social media, user monetization is usually an insignificant amount. Users are the product, advertisers are the customer.

Gating access to users lowers their user base which in turn makes their product less attractive to advertisers
 
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