What should I do now lol
I’m moving my teeny-tiny sub to kbin tonight.
All 8 people that subscribe to its semi-annual posts will have their worlds shaken /s
Holy shit that’s rich.
You , as a mod, are in a position of trust! You have an obligation to your community.
-reddit who has fucked over th community
It’s just manipulation of course. They’re trying to guilt-trip mods into doing what Reddit wants. Reddit’s concern here is obviously not for the poor innocent users being deprived their access to these subreddits. Reddit’s concern is maximising the amount of cash that flows into their pockets.
If Reddit actually cared about the users then they would respect the subreddits where users have voted to keep the subreddit private or change the subreddit to NSFW content. But Reddit is not respecting these votes from users, because they only care about the cash flowing into their pockets.
That’s easy.
Reopen the sub and put a sticky post with info on how to join kbin/lemmy and encouraging users to give it a try and join the fediverse alternative sub you’ve created.Then if you post any content- do it on the fediverse, and if you post it to Reddit just make it a link post to the fediverse page that has the content. Optionally disable comments or filter them.
They are deleting all references to kbin/lemmy.
Well then we’ll just have to post even harder.
Then the more fediverse links that get posted, the more work they’ll have to do. Do they have the staff to keep up? (That’s a rhetorical question.)
Reddit is already making liberal use of AI bots to post and reply, I suspect they will use them to moderate soon enough. After a while, it will just be bots talking to bots (self-generated content) and I think Reddit management will be fine with that as long as Wall Street doesn’t notice or care.
Source on this?
I’ve put the kBin links on the sidebar of my subs.
What ate the new magazines? Promote them here!
Source on that?
I’m surprised they’re still allowing that.
I suspect they’ll start auto-deleting comments which reference the competition sooner rather than later.
It’s already increasingly obvious that they’re deleting comments and using bots to change the narrative.
Twitter blocked links Mastadon for a hot minute calling them spam or unsafe or something. IIRC they backed down after a couple of days. Reddit has already been getting shit press for the last couple of weeks, tech journos are watching this all unfold closely, is Reddit dumb enough to take an action that is blatantly censorship and anticompetitive? It would be totally unspinable.
If they do that, it’ll tell you a lot about reddits thinking here. Spez current position is that the people complaining are a small minority and this will all blow over soon. If Reddit really believes that, then they best course of action is to let the complainers post their Lemmy/Kbin links, avoid a fresh round of bad press, and the lemmy/Kbin users will be gone in a couple of weeks and the reddit user base will remain largely intact. If Reddit views the risk of a mass migration to be a real and existential threat to their business, despite what they are saying publicly, then blocking Lemmy/Kbin links would make sense as a last ditch effort to keep their user base of casual users ignorant of popular alternatives, bad press being a necessary cost worth paying to try to retain the user base they need to sell for their ipo. All for that assumes Reddit is behaving rationally though, which Spez has shown isn’t a safe assumption.
Agree that rationality is not a safe assumption. None of this has been rational- it feels like Spez is having a temper tantrum (as would a small child) and those around him are desperately trying to channel it into professional-ish actions.
Also makes sense if Spez is Ellen Pao 2.0- board decides unpopular changes need to be made, so they pay Spez extra to do 120% of what they want and be the fall guy. He goes nuts for a while, then resigns, and is replaced with some suit who looks good on TV and has a bit of social media cred. That guy then says all the right things to the community and walks back 20% of the changes.
This probably all pushes the IPO back a year or so, but if they think they can increase revenue in that time, it makes some sense.At this point though I wouldn’t put anything past Reddit.
I have to think someone there is smart enough to know if they block fediverse links that’s a huge escalation that makes them OBVIOUSLY the ‘bad guys’ even in the eyes of people who DGAF about the API nonsense.
From the POV of a 3rd party observer, it COULD be argued that Reddit is just dumping freeloaders, a bunch of the users don’t like it and want shit for free, and it’s a stupid forum drama squabble.
But as soon as they start actively suppressing competitors, that becomes a lot harder to see as anything other than ‘actively stopping their users who want to leave from leaving’.
One thing I’ve noticed: if you land on Google from search around 20% of comments are from now deleted accounts. Try searching “best bike reddit” and see for yourself.
I think the hypothesis that power users are leaving is showing itself to be true.
Was trying to figure out why imgur just always seems broken now (it’s because of my VPN) and as I scrolled past all the reddit results like 1/3 of the answers had been deleted. It brought a tear to this former lurkers eye.
You may want to use something like libredirect to access rimgo, an alternative front-end for imgur; although it must be said that public instances are often limited.
I’ve taken your suggestion and although it didn’t do a whole lot for my Imgur problem, in general I like whats all going on with it. Thanks for the advice. It may not have been the outcome I wanted, yet it still feels like a small victory.
I just used power delete suite on my 13 year old account this morning. Every comment and post is gone.
check back in few days, lot of people are reporting their deleted comments were restored
I’m waiting to do it because I want to leave no trace, and any closed subs are unable to have comments changed. Also, waiting til the last minute because I’m not trying to dead mod one of my subs; I hate Reddit, buts it’s a smallish sub (30k) and I don’t want to just leave it. Only two of the five mods are active, and he’s thinking of leaving as well, so I guess we’re gonna have to mod search?? At least get one person in and then dip.
That’s the problem. Really you should do what you can to sabotage it and get the users over onto the fed. X
Looks normal to me. This phenomena though is perhaps the saddest part of the whole thing. It’ll take years to build up a similar amount of excellent info.
Who burned the modern Library of Alexandria? u/spez, and fuck him for it.
Can confirm. I’ve been doing a lot of technical setup lately. Hardware, and niche software. Any issue I had or comparison of online services I looked for Reddit was the top result and of course I would click it because I’m burnt out and just want an answer. I’ll say about a fourth of the comments on the comparison/help posts are now deleted or edited to make a statement about Reddit. Everynow and again it’d be a private sub. It was super wild. Luckily google has a cached version to view the sub in those cases.
I don’t think Lemmy will ever be able to replicate that utility though. There can’t be an expectation of a very specific technical post to still being around in 5 years since it’d be contingent on the instance to still exist.
If the instance is federated then the content will live on all the instances that it’s federated with. Every single instance would have to go away for the content to disappear.
If anything, Lemmy is way more reliable than Reddit, which is currently controlled by a whiny crybaby making unpredictable decisions.
There are already plenty of support communities generating legitimately helpful information. I expect it to only get better.
I wonder how long it’ll be before they scrape the bottom of the barrel and send that message to me for closing the r/dfshow sub. The sub is a support community for my DF-SHOW Unix (and Unixlike) terminal file manager. I was planning on unveiling the sub as part of the 0.10 release of the project, however, the API drama kicked off before then.
If they do decide to forcefully reopen the sub by kicking the only moderator, who is the sole developer of the project and currently the only subscriber to the sub, then we’ll know they’re desperate!
It’s kinda obvious, isn’t it. Just recreate the community/magazine on lemmy/kbin :D
Maybe advertise your community in the subreddit while telling everyone that you have been replaced as a moderator.
They came after a small sub I moderate today too. My response was to make a sticky post to the sub with the contents of the mod mail and a recommendation for everyone to move to kbin or lemmy. I hadn’t planned on giving reddit any more free content anyways given their behaviour.
Meanwhile I just mentioned /u/spez in a comment and promptly got an auto moderator notification that you’re not allowed to username-mention admins anymore, so I guess he’s tired of having his inbox consist of 100,000 messages telling him to GFY.
“he who must not be named” lol
Fuck you /u/spez, you fragile fucking snowflake
Steve Huffman, use his name. It’s not defamation if it’s true.
