Reddit breaks the law to quell protests - spez has gone too far

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/ogVdsAKiYm71fXKwzsjBh1

What pisses me off about the failed Reddit protest...

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/gYkqAwcuS2m8AeHm7nnvs4

Reddit forcibly breaks strike; this is an uninvestable company!

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/jdmp4kc845LvrUZuSRHHXy

We experienced the #RedditBlackOut and we want to give the power back to the users.

We just granted €3000 to @LemmyDev and €333 to @ernest to support the new #threadiverse who already has hundreds of "subs" and thousands of users.

This grant is part of our engagement with the @copiepublique initiative that gathers companies who pledged to share profits to grant #FLOSS and #digitalCommons.

#CopiePublique #donation #SupportFLOSS

Nous avons assisté au blackout #reddit et nous avons souhaité redonner le pouvoir aux utilisateurs ! ✊

Nous versons 3000 € à https://join-lemmy.org et 333 € à https://kbin.pub qui proposent des alternatives avec déjà plusieurs dizaines de milliers de "sous" et de membres actifs de ce nouveau #threadiverse 🧵

Cela fait partie du 1% de notre chiffre d'affaires que nous versons tous les ans avec @copiepublique et on est pas les seuls !

#RedditBlackOut #CopiePublique #RedditMigration

@dansup Lemmy gained a remarkable amount of new users during the #RedditBlackout in June. I wonder though if the huge amount of new Misskey users came from reddit as well or if I missed something.

And don't forget to mention #Pixelfed also almost reached 200k Users this year according to #FediDB 😃

#AllYourBases with @atomicpoet & @reiver

Are Friendica & Guppe part of the Threadiverse? Or is the Threadiverse just Lemmy & Kbin?

How many people joined Mastodon during the Reddit-migration?

#DiscoverTheGreatApe #Fediverse #Friendica #Guppe #Lemmy #Kbin #Mastodon #RedditBlackOut #RedditMigration #Theadiverse

"Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge"

The results everyone predicted happened. Who would have thought?

#Reddit #RedditBlackout #Enshittification #quality #danger #UnsafePractices

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/are-reddits-replacement-mods-fit-to-fight-misinformation/

It makes me sad that an open source project that has a community on Reddit held a vote to leave and most users voted to stay.

What makes it worse is that I missed the vote because we were boycotting Reddit, then I just quit Reddit, so I didn't even know about the voting.

I get it that many open source projects run on volunteers, and their time can be stretched, and sometimes the easy way wins, but I still don't like it.

#openSource #community #software #redditblackout

"Reddit launches moderator rewards program amid sitewide discontent"

You know what? I doubt that this will work. Dan Ariely in the book "Predictably Irrational" has a chapter dedicated to being paid for a service versus providing a favor.

AFAIK (and I could be wrong about this) most of the moderators that Reddit pissed are volunteers. They are not paid.

Now, the thing is that some people are willing to do volunteer work, for the betterment of humanity.

The problem comes when you want to start compensating them for the work they were doing for free. If you want to compensate them for the amount of work they are really doing, you'd go bankrupt. So you reason that you can give them a modest amount of money. You don't go bankrupt, and them getting something is better than them getting nothing.

Except that when you start giving them something, you've moved outside the gift economy and into the realm of pecuniary interest. People start comparing and they are not happy. So you lose more volunteers.

Reddit is apparently not going to pay moderators... so they may not actually move from the gift economy to some pecuniary realm. Still, it remains to be seen how their overture is received. I'm not convinced that "gifts" of digital trophies cannot be seen in a pecuniary manner. In his book, Ariely was looking at situations that were much simpler than the mess that Reddit made.

I'm still skeptical that this is going to make a difference.

#Reddit #RedditBlackout #DanAriely #PredictablyIrrational

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/24/reddit-mod-helper-program-update-moderation-protest/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictably_Irrational