sexy_peachJun 17, 2023

The Reddit Blackout Is Breaking Reddit

https://feddit.de/post/890138

The Reddit Blackout Is Breaking Reddit - Feddit

>“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”

Show threaddanJun 17, 2023

If it wasn't hurting them they wouldn't be doing damage control.

  • Spez wouldn't be doing interviews
  • They wouldn't be publishing whitewashed versions of history for their advertisers
  • They wouldn't be changing the rules to allow them to oust protesting mods
  • They wouldn't be preventing people from deleting their old comments/posts
  • They wouldn't be forcing subreddits to reopen
  • They wouldn't be trying to smear Apollo's dev
  • They wouldn't be posting propaganda notices on new reddit's homepage
  • They wouldn't be silencing discussion about Lemmy or advertiser boycotts

It's working, keep it up.

Show threadBobbinapples

They wouldn't be posting propaganda notices on new reddit's homepage

I want to know more about this, i haven't heard of this yet.

Jun 17, 2023 at 2:24pmWeb
Show threaddanJun 17, 2023

This appears at the top of the page until you dismiss it (at least for me): https://i.imgur.com/Uo3t2TI.jpg

Here’s what it links to: https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/16693988535309

Yesterday they were linking to some much more blatant propaganda/history whitewash, here's the link: https://www.redditinc.com/blog/apifacts

Show threadCaCtUs2003Jun 17, 2023
I got a bunch of that propaganda the other day even when signing in on old.reddit.
Show threadQHCJun 17, 2023

I like how it says their "updated" API rate limits but doesn't mention when those rules went into effect or how much warning they gave developers.

Spoiler: the answers are "very recently" and "not even a month".