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about 50% content is like this, no matter what view you select. I think /r/pics has the right idea; it is so dominating. Other subs should change their post to be like this (with their own messages) I think.
Also, what sub did spez mod in 2008?
I think the comments said he was a mod of jailbait. Yeah... tells a lot about the guy.
As much as I hate this guy, could we please stick to the facts and criticise him for things that he actually did?
From what I can see, spez did not moderate jailbait. He was added by one of the other mods because back then you could just add people as mods without their consent. I have yet to see proof that he ever actively participated in that sub.
So please, go ahead, dislike him for being a lying jerk who‘s actively killing reddit but don’t jump on something that someone else did without asking.
I might be wrong but my memory suggests that Reddit was basically forced to eventually act in the removal of that sub and they let it and many other questionable subs linger and prosper for a long time until it became too big to ignore.
Then let's focus on that instead of made up accusations.
They usually let them go until something blew up on mainstream news. For jailbait, it got in national TV news. Then it came down. Before that? Not a peep.
I agree. I will continue despising him for being a nutjob prepper, restoring the KiA sub after the founder deleted it (because even he saw it as a toxic shithole) and protecting the brigaders from t_D because "vAlUaBlE DiScUsSiOn".
Out of the handful of good things CNN did, demonstrating the failure of libertarianism and getting r/jailbait banned is near the top.
I just wish they'd link to lemmy! It's almost pointless to just shut down for a few days and not make people use competitors.
As a mod I've been considering this, but with the amount of moderators and communities that have been banned for attempting to steer their users to alternatives, it's simply not worth the risk. For now, I've just linked visitors to our Discord server instead, and people should be able to find the Lemmy and Raddle alternatives there if they wish to.
This is actually illegal, if they ban you for that they're violating the GDPR, so i'd say let them.
Wait, how is the GDPR applicable here? I thought the GDPR was just about data protection...
GDPR is absolutely not applicable here. Their platform, their rules when it comes to what people can and can't post (with the exception of personal information, that is covered by GDPR). If tomorrow they decide that the word "Banana" is a bannable offence, they're well within their rights.
All the more reason that federation is necessary in modern social media.
Exactly. Shutting down for 2 days just says we'll be back in 2 days. Shutting down and saying we're going to Lemmy with a link to a specific community shows reddit we are serious about this.
I think the link to a replicated (specific) community is the key.
100% I created a community here to replace on Reddit and made a post about it. That sub did not shut down, but it’s education in nature and I understand not shutting down as people may be depending on it for school.
I told the mods, hey you can have this if you intend to run it. I’ll check my messages a bit later.
I've been spamming https://join-lemmy.org everywhere I could just before the shutdown. /r/gonewild banned me for posting the link LOL
Some of them are. I visited a couple subs that went dark yesterday, and they had popup messages with fediverse lnks.
My eyes are screaming just looking at the new.reddit UI.
Sometimes it's good to be reminded what an abomination it actually is.
Yeah this “new” redesign is really horrific. I really don’t understand why they did this. I get that they have old.reddit for now, but if that goes Reddit will really be completely unusable.
I really feel like they’re making an instagram clone instead of a discussion forum. The whole site is becoming more and more image dominated. So sad :(
They want to look like all the other big sites so that people are more willing to try them out because of the familiar look, and also so they can easier/more sneakily put ads in.
Agreed.
Someone linked an article from 2019 about the fact that the investors wanted the same returns out of Reddit as in Facebook/instagram.
If Steve actually was "with" the users and Reddit as a platform he should have told them to eat shit.
I am quite sure it is the reason why Reddit is heading the way of Facebook/Insta/Tik tok etc.
And I have zero interest in being a part of it.
Yeah, Reddit has 0 interest in being Reddit anymore. They want to be tiktok/Instagram (that's why the video player is fucking trash, they want it to look like tiktok). The thing I don't understand is those apps are already much larger than Reddit, why would people from those apps ever come to Reddit? And why would you just completely abandon your loyal userbase?
To be a little fair (and I am not being the devils advocate here, to be clear) Steve is literally in the position that is required, by definition, to drive shareholder value and take the fall for unpopular changes.
More than likely none of these decisions he’s made recently were by him, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s just being used as a scapegoat by the directors and will be given a golden parachute when he announces he’s resigning “in response” to the community backlash.
On r/all in Slide, I have 3 black "killing apps" pics followed by 3 other protest posts, and then it's just normal. I respect that not everyone wishes to join the protest, but it would have been more fun if protest posts went on for at least a couple pages.
I think that's allready pretty good because many people who are against these changes will just probably stop participating on reddit at all during the protest and thereby not influence what's on the front page.
Well, initially he moderated everything. He also creates lots of sock puppets for fake activity. That would be much easier today with chatgpt.
I just looked. Every post except AITA is a protest post
Ironic in a way that AITA is still up
Well now, subreddit name checks out.
They might be getting DDOS. Website is messed up and won't even load for me now. LOL.
me too "you broke reddit"
everybody who ever had an account refreshing to see what will happen lol
All Iget now is an error page and nothing loads, not even ads.
Same. Reddit borked
Thanks for the image.
Excellent!
Also I will add that the posts which do not directly related to the blackout are all 6-12 hours old.