this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
65 points (98.5% liked)

General Discussion

250 readers
1 users here now

Want something to discuss? Post it here

Follow instance rules, be decent human being...

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
65
The Reddit protest should have been an indefinite protest from the beginning. (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

We have not seen any significant impact so far and we will continue to monitor.

There's a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we've seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well.

As many thought would happen, they don't really care about what's happening. I don't know why there is an end date to a protest that will kill so many 3rd party apps and affect the free work that moderators do.

Sorry if this is the wrong uhh.. Instance? Community? (I'm still kind of new to Lemmy so I'm trying to understand) to post this but I didn't know where else to post.

Edit: accidentally uploaded the post without finishing the text.

top 8 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a communication to the employees he obviously knew was going to be leaked. What is he going to say?

Also, there are a bunch of subs that will stay dark indefinitely, and Lemmy is responding pretty well. Last time something like this (kind of) happened, people tried to go to voat... and that was a catastrophe

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand that, but it still should have been more than 48 hours, that is not nearly enough for a protest, this is at least in my opinion. And yeah this wouldn't apply to the subs that are staying dark indefinitely.

As for Lemmy, I'm genuinely glad that it's responding well, not having to deal with a clunky, slow website feels much better. I really hope that Lemmy grows, imo it's better when there's competition.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Speaking for myself, but I suspect it'd resonate with many others, Reddit for me was Sync. No sync, no Reddit. I would imagine many of the people that moved over won't come back if it means they have to:

  1. Use the official app
  2. Use the web
  3. Pay a subscriptions for a reduced experience
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yuuuup, reddit was boost for me. The official app is a travesty. I wouldn't go back either way though.

[–] ImInLoveWithLife 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, I think the true blackout occurs after 3PAs shut down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Completely agree with you, for me Reddit was also Sync, that's why I'm deleting my account on the 30th. Without Sync there is no Reddit for me.

And expecting the closure of old.reddit.com (because it's definitely gonna happen), not even the web version will be an option for me.

[–] MorksEgg 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Reddit hasn't been the same since they fired that lady who did the AMAs. That was the start of the decline. Then they went and hired that psycho lady who they had to shit can. Then Tencent bought a 30% stake. One of the tech acquisition arms of the CPP. There's really only one way it could have went.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I completely forgot about the Tencent stake! Wasn't Reddit banned in China though?

I wish everything went back to normal (that includes the old Reddit design/website). And it's kind of unfair that a website that lives thanks to their user's content is the one earning the money and their users are getting stabbed in the back like this.

If anything, the API money should be going to creators/mods imo.