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just so this doesn't overwhelm our front page too much, i think now's a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let's try to keep what's happening in this thread instead of across 10.

developments to this point:

The Verge is on it as usual, also--here's their latest coverage (h/t @dirtmayor@beehaw.org):

other media coverage:

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[–] Luvs2Spuj@beehaw.org 100 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Reddit just feels dirty to me now, not in a good dirty way... Just dirty, I want nothing to do with it. I see no coming back from this even if the backlash leads to Reddit reversing the decisions. Kind of new the IPO would do something like this. Looking forward to seeing this place bloom.

[–] vanderbilt@beehaw.org 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I predict that as the blackout goes into full swing, Reddit is going to start taking over major subreddits from their mods to keep the site going. Things are going to become ugly very fast.

[–] LimitedBrain@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iirc one of the mods said that the blackout was designed to prevent that. If it's 2 days, they likely won't bother taking them over. But an indefinite lock down they probably will. Even then though, that disruption in content will likely be too large to handle for most users

[–] vanderbilt@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it’s only temporary then I as an admin would just wait it out, then go about my comically evil business. Reddit staff can’t realistically moderate the entire site, so the best way to get the message across is to stop moderating and let things burn until the bean counters can’t take the heat. Just my opinion, not that I want that to happen.

[–] phillycodehound@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just say screw it and leave. But that's coming from more of a lurker on Reddit.

[–] vanderbilt@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I have, I only put off deleting my account so I could tell spez to 🖕himself at the AMA.

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

I've been wondering the same thing.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We've all said for years that we've seen a slow decline but never knew when it was time to leave. Now all of a sudden here we have the giant sign saying "We've gone full corporate and don't care about the users anymore"

[–] Austin-Philp@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah this isn't such a huge thing on it's own (tough it is shitty), it's this combined with the years of other steady decline in a thousand small ways. Most people on reddit have agreed for some time now that the site has gone to shit, but there haven't really been viable alternatives or enough of a reason to pick up stakes and leave. Now there is, and hopefully enough people leave for good to Lemmy, Kbin, or others so that the change can stick

[–] HrBingR@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

I kinda feel the same way. I've used the official Reddit app before, and I might've considered using a modded version of the official client, but I just feel gross even having a Reddit account after what they've done. Despite the fact that I use old.reddit as well, once Apollo is gone I reckon I'll delete my account.

[–] bear_delune@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

100% too gross for me

[–] setsneedtofeed@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A lot of mucky feeling about it has been partitioned by Apollo for me. I specifically didn’t want to interact with online politics so I set up tons of keyword filters and blocked honestly a few thousand subreddits. I turned off awards and things. I could actually browse r/all and see cool and unique content. It felt really close to classic Reddit and it insulated me from a lot of the passing drama.

Drama around the thing I used to make that space for myself was inescapable. The entire saga, from the evasiveness on details in the initial post, to the insane pricing, to the blackmail accusations make it impossible not to see how rotten the leadership is at the very top. Even if all the API stuff gets reset (it won’t) I can’t feel good about Reddit anymore.

At least the Internet Historian video about this will be absolutely lit.