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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit (www.theguardian.com)
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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit::A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever

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[–] McDropout 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The pathetic-ness of the system stems within the fact that Moderators and Subreddit Creators cannot delete the Subreddits they created. I don't know how we didn't see this as a red flag.

[–] AngryCommieKender 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

/HFY did. A ton of authors including Hambone stopped posting there at all around 2018 or 2019 because we found out that Reddit was claiming that they owned our work, since we had posted it to Reddit, or something like that

[–] McDropout 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What is /HFY and who is Hambone? Sorry for my ignorance.

[–] AngryCommieKender 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Humanity, Fuck Yeah! It was a subreddit that focused on a subsection of Science Fiction, where humanity is frequently not the underdog at all.

Hambone is the author of The Deathworlders series, also referred to as The Jenkinsverse.

https://deathworlders.com/books/deathworlders/chapter-00-kevin-jenkins-experience/

That "chapter" got posted and Hambone forgot about it for five years, then came back and posted a chapter a month for seven(?) years to turn it into a book. It's a long book.

He did this because at least three other authors wrote their own stories in the universe he created.

Salvage (this one is only canon until Adrian attempts to "blow up" a black hole. Something like chapter 73 or so. Jennifer Delaney, the main female protagonist, makes an appearance in The Deathworlders)

Humans Don't make good pets ( Canon, but we never meet the unnamed main protagonist in The Deathworlders)

The Xiu Chang Saga (Totally canon, and Xiu becomes one of the main characters in The Deathworlders)

All of these can also be found as audiobooks, in varying degrees of completion, on YouTube. There's also a guide somewhere as to when all this stuff takes place. A large amount of it takes place between chapters 0 and 1 of The Deathworlders.

[–] cashews_best_nut 3 points 11 months ago

Your passion for these stories is endearing. I'm going to check them out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

HFY = Humanity Fuck Yeah! A place for writers to post their stories about humans being awesome. Many of them were sci-fi space operas which is what I loved.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I used to read there a lot on my phone. My main activity on reddit at the time.

Then Bacon reader died, and I just stopped reading there