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[The Verge] Reddit protest updates: news on the apps shutting down and Reddit’s fights with mods (www.theverge.com)

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Here's the list of highlights from the article, as it's a good TL;DR:

The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark
How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
Why disabled users joined the Reddit blackout
Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted
A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

At a guess, he'll try to spin it. Like "I'm being treated more unfairly than any leader in the history of the entire world has ever been treated anywhere, those meanies are harassing me when ALL I did was try to make the site profitable, that's ALL!?", and in combination with "Like everything else on the internet, people will get bored quickly and if you'll just give it a moment, it'll all blow over soon". In short, he's pushing to see exactly just how far he can take it.

And he may very well get away with it too. Unless someone actually does anything at all to stop it, by default he will reap the spoils of everything that he wants to get, b/c the VAST majority of people are just too lazy to care. He has caused US here to flee... but what does that even mean, overall? In the short-term at least, Reddit traffic has actually gone UP since the start of the protest - this "negative publicity" is still publicity.

[+] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If have worked worked in the industry and know this to be true, then I will bow to your actual experience. Otherwise, I am reserving judgement until I see it happen. Remember: Trump was impeached, twice, and he may still be elected again - and there are pictures of him with very underage girls at Epstein's parties and personal 1st-party accounts from the girls claiming that he had sex with them (at 14 years of age iirc), yet still many pastors proclaim from the pulpit that "he is God's man" - which is a very different matter than that the other side is worse (also, by that same line of logical reasoning, why wouldn't Hillary have been "God's woman" if she had managed to get elected? Or Obama after he actually was?).

I'm just saying that I no longer am willing to put my faith and trust in things that "must" happen, to actually happen. Especially if there is some kind of claim for it to be a temporary measure while they restore order. Maybe some sets of advertisers will be swapped out for another, or maybe all of NSFW will be removed from Reddit, I don't know what to expect except that whatever it is, spez will expect to profit from it, with like a 99.99% chance of not admitting any fault whatsoever.