The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.
The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. The article describes it as "the official end of the battle," which seems an overstatement to me, but it's the certainly the end of the initial phase.... #RedditMigration
https://gizmodo.com/reddit-news-blackout-protest-is-finally-over-reddit-won-1850707509
Thoughts on doing activism on kbin or Lemmy?
I'm working on an activism campaign kicking off next week opposing some bad internet bills in the US -- [here's the magazine I just set up](https://kbin.social/m/BadInternetBills). Once things get going, we'll be sharing links there including information and actions people can take.... #activism #AskKbin
Threads Will Break Kbin And Lemmy: interoperability isn't just about the protocol
With the launch of Threads, there's been a lot of interesting talk about the safety and privacy risks it poses to people on the fediverse, if and when Meta begins federating. But it's also worth examining the risks to the social systems.... #lemmy #kbin #threads #defederatemeta #fedipact #FediPact
With the launch of Threads, there's been a lot of interesting talk about the safety and privacy risks it poses to people on the fediverse, if and when Meta begins federating. But it's also worth examining the risks to the social systems....
Two reasons the ongoing Reddit protests are important:
the protests keep the pressure on reddit and can lead to ongoing news coverage (which also keeps the pressure on reddit) . Otherwise, reddit will be able to spin the narrative "see? we told you it would just blow over and it did"
kbin, Lemmy, and other alternatives aren't yet at the point where they're ready for millions of redditors. For example, the modCoord post makes the important point that a lot of reddit's moderation functionality isn't accessible ... but almost none of this functionality even exists yet on kbin and Lemmy. So most people aren't going to leave yet.
Don't get me wrong, leaving now is also a good option if you can find what you want elsewhere! But not everybody's there yet.
@MyOpinion Totally agree, there's some discussion at the end of the article on the need to improve moderation tools. Specifically for kbin and lemmy, I also talked about this in the Invest in moderation tools section of Don't tell people "it's easy"
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