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Tim Chambers#RedditBlackout organizers aren't fooling around and many have shifted into full on scortched earth on Reddit and to #RedditMigration mode:
Wonder what an #OperationRazit for Twitter would look like?
Kevin Leecaster@tchambers
Perhaps might have some impact within the community notes group, but otherwise there's not much role for the public in the administration of that foul site.
Perhaps might have some impact within the community notes group, but otherwise there's not much role for the public in the administration of that foul site.
Ragnell the Mildly Unpleasant@tchambers no one deletes, but so that the account names cannot be given to spam we keep them open, delete all previous tweets and replace it with AAAAAAAAAA and endlessscreaming retweets/quotes
latewizard@tchambers we may soon find out if Google pulls the plug because of unpaid bills.
Charlie Stross@tchambers Very difficult to do an Operation Razit for Twitter since the Muskrat killed third party API access.
William PietriIt might be less necessary, as I think the monetary value of old tweets is lower. But I think you could do a lot with browser automation or paste-into -console JS. Either takes advantage of Twitter's skeleton staffing, as they'd have a hard time noticing and fighting it.
Rebecca@williampietri @cstross @tchambers This is very true. At no point have I ever been led to Twitter for an answer to a question. Reddit, on the other hand, handily does a lot of what Quora wishes it did.
draNgNon@rebecca_meadows @williampietri @cstross @tchambers if Quora was paying any attention at all they could make use of this moment
but I doubt they will
@draNgNon @williampietri @cstross @tchambers Quora has bigger problems, I'd say, and I'd argue that one *needs* to die.
I had an account there for about three months a couple of years ago. I met a few nice people, but quickly discovered that it has a *catastrophic* problem with paedophiles, and sexual harassment to a degree I've never experienced on any website, ever. Not only is their moderation team not doing anything about it, but it's actively suppressing individual attempts to address it.
@rebecca_meadows @williampietri @cstross @tchambers o wow, that is awful, I am so very sorry to hear that. I only ever briefly glance at it in a myriad of search results.
(EDIT: it's often on the front page of results, which is why I said the original thing about making use of the moment. just as well I guess.)
Callum McNeill
Leszek KarlikI used https://semiphemeral.com/ right after the Musk takeover, I'm not sure whether it works now, though.
CodingAndCoffee@tchambers Thanks, I've been looking for the full size (not thumbnail) version of this.
TimmyMac@tchambers You know, I'm not even THAT mad at Reddit but am still considering deleting my account just because of how nice it's felt to break the doomscrolling the last couple days
@timmymac @tchambers I replaced doom scrolling with doom watching YouTube videos. I refuse to be productive.
Mad Argon 
@latewizard @timmymac @tchambers I am afraid it's incurable problem. I use Mastodon/Fedi as only social media and feel more addicted than ever.
*going back to scrolling*
*going back to scrolling*
jon_newby@timmymac @tchambers that, mixed with getting tired with platform enshitification when they get to a critical mass.
😻🇨🇦MimzyDub🇨🇦😻@timmymac @tchambers what is going on at Reddit? I go there for just abfew subreddits that don't have problems, especially some sewing and crochet and cat related ones. I don't go on Reddit otherwise.
Mr.RxM@MimzyDub @timmymac @tchambers google “reddit api huffman” and read some of the articles. The TLDR is Reddit decided to charge for API access, and they made an absolute shit show of it.
@MimzyDub @timmymac @tchambers it’s really unfortunate. Developers like Apollo would not likely have any issue with paying a reasonable amount for API access. However what was proposed to be charged was not reasonable. On top of that, the CEO of Reddit misrepresented convos and outright lied. The trust is broken with the developers and likely cannot be recovered with the current administration.
Eric McCorkle@tchambers this is starting to look like the emergence of an entirely new kind of resistance, aimed at monopolistic social media companies.
Like, on the level of whenever "strikes" were first invented...
Kudra 
@emc2 @tchambers pleasingly, it's actually worse. Because trust in websites is really a lot easier to break than refusing to work until your conditions are met: there's somewhere else else to go, your not beholden to the owners of capital. Once your free labour gets pissed, if organised it can bugger off to a different location online and continue doing what it was doing before, but under better conditions.
This is sort of Klein's "shock doctrine", but in reverse. Twice now, major platforms have hit breaking points, and seem to be structurally unable to handle it.
OSS has the advantage that it can't really be stopped, and projects tend to get better over time. It also doesn't have to be dominant; it only needs to be present to exert a significant pressure on the private sector.
@tchambers Out of interest where are these sub-reddits going? Discord just isn’t the same thing. Interested to see the alternatives.
Ronnie Tucker@danielstucke the reddit population are kinda getting scattered to the four corners of the earth. Some are going to Kbin.social. Some are going to Lemmy.world. I just tried Squabbles.io and it was pretty good. This just feels like when they closed down Google+ and everyone had to find a new home. It sucks. :(
@ronnietucker Thanks for those. Ah yes the Google+ days - seems like a lifetime ago!
@danielstucke @ronnietucker have seen several people reappear in Fedi that I hadn't seen since G+ - it's been interesting.
Jamie@ronnietucker @danielstucke I miss Google +, had a large following over there.
@jamiestl same. I met some lovely people on Google+. I'll never forgive Google for closing it down.
@ronnietucker @jamiestl have seen several people reappear in Fedi that I hadn't seen since G+ - it's been interesting.
@danielstucke @tchambers discord is terrible for thread based communication. I love old school forums but it’s so convenient to have all my niche interests in one place.
Darwin Woodka@danielstucke @tchambers I'm following the groups I care about on Discord and it works quite well actually.
Mark Dixon@danielstucke @tchambers Usenet hopefully
Daniel Schwarz 
@tchambers All that useful content will be lost or, at best, scattered to various new systems. I hope @internetarchive has a comprehensive copy of Reddit content?
FX Toledo@tchambers I like the part where you use @zompist's word generator to render your posts useless.
Mark RosenfelderBut what have they got against č?
Chloe Tse 
@tchambers that food for thought section... Such a weird thing to say about Digg vs Reddit. It actually kinda makes him look worse? It's like saying "At least Digg owns up to being a for profit company. We are for profit but we pretend that we are community focused."
Beeks@tchambers I'll believe it when I see it.
JR Buckley 🏳️🌈⚛️
jfml - Jonas Laugs@JRBuckley @tchambers Thank you 💖✨
like jam or bootlacesah, thanks for that
I transcribed the URL in the bottom right of that image to read it myself instead of scrolling, but then figured I should come paste it for others' use
glad to find you beat me to it
Beth Barany@tchambers I'm late to the party. Why?
Fabian ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Stefen Auris 🖖@tchambers for those of you who are curious but too lazy to type in the url in the picture: https://onlinetextsharing.com/operation-razit-raze-reddit
Kay Ohtie 🔜 FWA@stefenauris @tchambers Or for accessibility reasons, because the alt text does not include the URL or most of the content of the image.
Camerondotca@tchambers they are really pissed.
Techronic9876@tchambers even during the peak of the blackout I did not notice a significant degradation in my Reddit experience
There’s a huge amount of redundant subs for almost any topic, and most of the main subs are just recycled content from elsewhere on the internet, and the Reddit algorithm is pretty agnostic to what it surfaces— lack of upvotes isn’t a strong signal. Given these factors you’d probably need to close 95% of subs for Reddit to really collapse
@tchambers Regardless when apollo stops working I’m not planning to switch to some other app— the official app is pure garbage
ash@tchambers I believe people should not engage in sabotage as protest 🪧
Replacing original content with gibberish is well within one's remit but I feel it's more ethical to simply delete or substitute with sm along the lines of "This text has been changed in protest at blablabla"
I am apprehensive about this type of behaviour and would be wary of anyone engaging in such joining these alternative & happy #fediverse spaces.
Kindly protest with grace, friends ☺️🤞
Please spread positive energy! 🫧🪺
RamsHornStudios@ash Is it sabotage if it's your own posts and work?
@jerpirate I might've used the wrong word but I elaborated as much as I could before running out of characters 😅 Do u understand what I mean, though? Basically avoiding simply spamming (sry if that word also causes umbrage loll) and instead editing the comment to something useful.
I think it would be more productive too if there was clarity behind the edit since one could direct users to their other socials instead of viewers just seeing "hello ceramic fish wickshfuejwhrhfh" ..
is That clear??
@ash Yeah, that makes sense!
@jerpirate Thank you 😊💞
Wishing good things to u 🍀
Wishing good things to u 🍀
Doctor LURK@tchambers I don't even use Reddit, and never have, but I'm always here to watch users destroying an enshittified platform - it's extra-meaty entertainment. Boosting!
eifer@tchambers I'm still not convinced it makes sense to sabotage reddit over this?
How are they supposed to continue to function without enough revenue? It has to come from somewhere.
rjbandicoot@eifer @tchambers
that's what's so sad, it's because of the way things have progressed; when the api announcements first happened, people were largely supportive. This is now a problem of Reddit's making, due to their continued display of bad faith / taking everyone for granted.
that's what's so sad, it's because of the way things have progressed; when the api announcements first happened, people were largely supportive. This is now a problem of Reddit's making, due to their continued display of bad faith / taking everyone for granted.
Helge@eifer @tchambers I think "sabotage" sends the discussion off in the wrong direction. My motivation for purging my history is that I don't want to leave 15 years worth of my contributions in the hands of greedy liars who don't respect me or the communities I participated in.
Several attempts have been made to help Reddit continue to function and gain revenue, but they've shat on every attempt, lied to people, and lied *about* people.
cytokine_storm@eifer @tchambers this idea that they must make revenue is part of the problem (the motivation for it anyway). Mastodon does absolutely fine without any profit motive. From here, it almost looks like for profit social media is the aberration.