Cody BromleyIn solidarity with the #Reddit protests, I have deleted the official app from my phone and taken the two subs I moderate private.
Fuck spez.
Meow.tar.gz 
@codybrom I need to do that as well because the subs that I care about have all gone dark. Yes, it's a quiet moment of solidarity.
Crockett Houghton@codybrom well, now I need someone to explain to me what Reddit did (though I know I could Google)
The Verge has a really good and concise writeup: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/10/23756476/reddit-protest-api-changes-apollo-third-party-apps
@codybrom thank you 🙏🏻
oldfartjmb says FREE PALESTINEModerators of a Subreddit (basically a forum) have the ability to make that part of the site inaccessible to users who aren’t subscribed. That means only logged-in users with an existing relationship to that subreddit can see it.
However, some subreddits are also going a step further and restricting new posts as well. So that means even users who CAN see the subreddit will still not see anything new posted.
It's quite the protest and some expect Reddit to intervene.
Ijio Nano@codybrom Cheers!
Jamie@codybrom what's the subs that you run?
Without directly giving out my reddit username, one is for the small college I went to (~750 subs) and the other is for a role playing game (1.7k subs). Nothing too big, but I feel like even small communities like these matter to some people and make the site as a whole less valuable when they go dark.
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Helmic@codybrom i'm kinda hopeful that mainstream social media getting really shitty all at once pushes more people towards federated stuff. lemmy's devs are kinda dickheads, but the federated model still has that promise of permitting us to have more intimate online spaces without the network effect of big tech social media locking us into hellsites simply because that's where everyone else is posting.
i forget the name of hte new alternative to lemmy, not raddle 'cause that one is uninterested in federating. but if that one i'm trying to remember actually has some technical merit that might be worth consdering, if only to not have to deal with "jokes" about shooting anarchists.
Björn@codybrom it's not just about the cost of the API usage but also the restriction of NSFW content to be only viewed with the official app.