Sam altman was just fired from CEO of #openai, Jesus...
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Cory DoctorowThis is the Facebook playbook: you lure in publishers by promising them a traffic funnel ("post excerpts and links and we'll show them to people, including people who never asked to see them"), and then the rug-pull: "Post everything here, don't link to your own site. Become a commodity supplier to our platform. Abandon all your own ways of making money. Become entirely subject to the whims of our recommendation system."
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Dan GillmorAfter Reddit's beyond-arrogant CEO dismissed the subreddit blackout as just posturing, moderators of discussions extended the blackout. This is the only sensible response to the company's contempt.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759674/reddit-mods-blackout-protest-extended-indefinitely
Please stay the course.
For my part, I'm canceling my Reddit account and looking at decentralized alternatives.
Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
Moderators of many Reddit communities are pledging to keep their subreddits private or restricted indefinitely. In response to a Tuesday post on the r/ModCoord subreddit, users are chiming in to say that their subreddits will remain dark past Wednesday.
Eugen RochkoI think it would be amusing if Reddit did implode over this. It'd be entirely self-inflicted... The site is only usable with third party apps.