Technology

I've been curious as to what the end user experience on reddit might look like today and tomorrow. The blackout tracker seems to show fairly typical activity though. https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ That perplexes me.

Maybe people are still checking reddit like usual, but many posts are hours old in the private subreddits that they may subscribe to? I know a percentage of subreddits didn't go dark, but those wouldn't be big enough to cause engagement to stay at the usual levels. Anyone hazard a guess as to what's up?

Oh...thank you guys for keeping up with all the chaos from us new folks slamming your servers!

The rust subreddit is apparently considering moving to Lemmy:

https://lemmy.ml/post/1205713

My Moose Sense was tingling and I decided to check on the subs I moderate on Reddit. Sure enough, there were issues.

One of the three subs was set to 'restricted' (nobody can post or comment but the sub is still open), not private. (I'll pedantically put my explanation for this at the bottom so you can ignore it).

However, the seniorest mod, who is never around (seriously, his last post/comment was 10 years ago!), decided the sub should be private, not restricted. And he'd tried to do it himself, but because he hadn't been around for at least two years, the site wouldn't let him make the change! So I've changed it and it's now private.

Additionally, a report troll appeared, because he couldn't make any comments. I guess that's an even better reason to make it private.

[you can now ignore my exposition blather]

The sub was set to restricted instead of private because, well, part of this protest is also about people with vision impairments not being able to use the iOS mobile app and relying on 3rd party apps. If a subreddit is private, any message set by the moderators ("This sub is private because...") is not displayed by the Reddit mobile app. So the idea was, restrict access so any regular mobile reader would be sure to know what we were doing. But with 7000+ subs dark, I don't think it's any great mystery any more.

David Revoy's take on the Reddit situation: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/110532791930270318

This is a fantastic idea, thank you.

If i may dream, the actual solution to this issue would be a mod/user takeover along the lines of a factory occupation, or a more peaceful worker buyout. (Sometimes the former leads to the latter.)

When the tools of production are a server farm, how do they get taken over? What does it look like?

To be a little more grounded, the real targets of this action should not be "reddit" or /u/spez. It should be whoever is actually in charge. Do we know who that is?

Hell, I'll let this be my first comment; it's on a different instance than my account to boot! I'm running into some issues with some of the newer instances not being federated; some of the subreddits I was hoping to replace here are unavailable as a result. Still, I'm happy enough to be a part of something new and different.

r/programming is private even though I think a lot of the mods were reddit employees, I think even u/spez. what is going on lol

PSA: Reddit Power Delete Suite

The "edit comment" feature, whether paired with deletion or used by itself, does not work due to hitting rate limits. The developer is aware, but don't have capacity to fix it atm.

Some forks fix it. I didn't have the patience to figure out which ones did, which ones worked, or how do use their modified versions, so I made my own fork including a working "release" of sorts. It it rate limited to wait 5 seconds between each edit:

https://codepen.io/Deestan/full/gOQagRO/#