Reddit’s CEO said he expects this blowup will pass eventually.

This will get interesting.

  • PabloDiscobar@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The reddit admins have an excuse for booting out the last mods, for stability reasons, since the blackout caused a downtime.

    The last redditors will be modded by robots and what they say will be analysed by other robots for money. How fun.

    • Lippy@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Yikes! That will only render the Reddit self-sabotage to be irreversible. It really has become morbidly entertaining watching Spez’s overly fragile ego result in that site burning itself to the ground in such spectacular fashion over the last few days. If it wasn’t for the third party app devs getting screwed over financially in the process after the rug was pulled from under them.

      This place looks to be a silver lining to this whole saga at least. It definitely feels more homely over here with its throwbacks to how forums used to be. It feels like people can actually have a proper conversation again.

      • Onii-Chan@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        It really does feel good to not be constantly walking on eggshells out of fear of saying the ‘wrong thing’, or not agreeing with the subreddit’s agenda (and holy FUCK is it nice not having to scroll past the first 30+ unfunny quippy replies to find a serious comment.) I’m honestly happy this all went down. Even if it doesn’t kill the website (which I’m sure will be the case), they’ve shown their hand more than enough times now to the point longtime users like myself (12 years, personally) are unwilling to return. I like it here far more, and the overall concept is massively appealing to me.

        • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          7 years myself, this place looks like it is kicking off pretty well.

          Let’s be real, Reddit accounts are easy to make, if we really wanted to, we could all just make spam accounts and really Fuck up their new mods.

          If they would just make an app that doesn’t kill my storage, data, and battery it might be different.

          I used to use the Reddit app and almost quit Reddit because of it before I found rif

  • AttackBunny@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I keep seeing that a lot are going to stay black indefinitely, which is awesome. I also read that a admin took away a head mods powers, and gave them to a lower mod, and then reopened the specific sub (which I currently don’t remember which, but it wasn’t small).

    I feel like we will see a LOT more of the admins handing power over to the people who want power, or want to stay on Reddit and don’t care about any of the downsides/drama.

    • John_Shepard@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      r/technology was staying open and didn’t say a peep about the blackout. At some point it went private but it doesn’t have some kind of message or reason as to why, unlike subs actively participating in the blackout. As it turns out, a reddit admin is currently top mod of r/technology and had been actively posting in an official reddit sub (could’ve been r/reddit) in defense of the API move during the end of last week. I think r/technology is a good sub to watch, just gonna leave it at that.

  • namesare4squares@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Good – I hope they do. But more than that, I hope that the userbase doesn’t return.

    I don’t care if they choose kbin/Lemmy/Squabbles(?)/Pr0nhub Comment section/Whatever or a combination of those things – but I hope they don’t return to Reddit.

    This is an exciting new opportunity for the internet, imo. Why rely on a single point of failure?

    • whatthecaptcha@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      At this point I hope this blackout stays in place until they reverse their decisions on everything and fire spez. If not I’m done with Reddit for good.

      Kbin seems more than sufficient as a replacement to me.

      The only things I’m missing on kbin are all features of Apollo, not Reddit, so there’s literally ZERO reason for me to go back.

        • Onii-Chan@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          It’s seen such a massive influx of traffic lately without the servers to effectively support it. It’ll improve (I hope.) I already like it better here. Fuck reddit.

        • Cinner@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          I’m sure it’s just a massive influx of lurkers (and some users) along with not great server infra right now, but I’m dealing with 30s page loads and constant Cloudflare token refreshes. Still better than reddit.

    • LlamaDrama5@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I was kind of hoping for a brief return between tomorrow and the end of the month for one last binge and so my old subs could share what platform they’d moved to. But so be it. This was going to happen eventually.

    • canitendtherabbits@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      don’t care if they choose kbin/Lemmy/Squabbles(?)/Pr0nhub Comment section/Whatever or a combination of those things

      It the fediverse so it can be all of those, some of those, one of those or whatever! Right? Am I getting it yet? I’m never going back to reddit.

      • MeowdyPardner@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        If only squabbles implemented activitypub so it could federate with lemmy and kbin… (It doesn’t look like it does)

        • codehegel@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          I am actively experimenting with both. First post here! I find lemmy/kbin has a huge potential, but bloated initial experience. (Was cloud flare really necessary?). While squabbles is light and easy to get into, but less overall potential.

          • reflex@kbin.social
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            1 year ago

            I signed up for squabbles but was turned off before I even started testing it when I saw all the botspam in r/RedditAlternatives.