Raising the price on api usage was a dick move, this is just rude.
It’s literally embarrassing that Reddit is doing this, Reddit doing dumb API changes, Spez falsely accusing the owner of apollo of blackmail, and now they’re unprivating subreddits.
Falsely accusing him of blackmailing and then doubling down on it in the AMA and then also ignoring Christian when he asked for proof and gave Spez full permission to show him where in any chat logs they had
That was the final straw for me. I don’t much care about Apollo, but the behavior spez displayed there sends a clear message.
He will lie, cheat, and do whatever the hell he needs to, so long as it results in profit, or he believes that it does.
There’s genuine intention to cause harm, there. And since that’s the approach reddit takes to the literal foundation of their community? Fuck 'em.
I say as soon as the subs go live we all just spam Lemmy links to the new pages.
They can’t ban us all. The mods probably won’t care and the ones savvy enough will make it out.
We need the small wins first.
That will increase the traffic and comments on Reddit, and improve the numbers on their IPO.
Of course they did
They’re digging their own grave. Subreddits grow because of good moderation, replacing the moderation will result in a much lower quality experience for everyone involved.
This is just part of the slow slide into being another Digg or MySpace. People will just move to the places that host the quality communities. It’s trivially easy to move to Fediverse services and all of the top content on Reddit is crossposted to the relevant lemmy communities.
I had a feeling they would do that.
Good luck doing that with 8000 other subs.
They don’t need to take over all of them. A dozen or two of the largest subs would be plenty. Those with less than a couple hundred thousand subscribers, don’t really matter much.
A dozen or two of the largest subs would be plenty.
Those subs required a huge effort to moderate before, but it’s going to be 10x worse now that every submission is going to be AI generated pictures of spez doing things to goats or something.
Even trying to take over the biggest subs would be Herculean, especially considering they just laid off 5% of their staff.
As is suggested in the original post on Reddit, they could delegate moderation to the moderators opposing the blackout, as seems to have happened with r/AdviceAnimals. I feel like that’s something they very well could do.
Bet you they are going to use AI for the modding system. I swear this is their plan.
Theyd use ai for content itself if they had to.
Ohh no, I forgot about that. Imagine visiting Reddit in a few years when the majority have left and all is left are the bots, AI and Gallowboob. Hell.
So this is what spez meant by
Apollo-Related Subreddit Blackouts ‘Will Pass,’ No Significant Revenue Impact So Far.
Man, they really really want that cash, I don’t think Reddit cares at all at this point. They’d be happy with repost bots on their platform.
Just bots posting old content and tweets for the chatbots to comment on. Fun.
Beep. Boop. Beep.
