Social Media is for the Birds #nobodycares

[WolfEyes]

Something tells me it won't be much longer before Reddit is just another internet ghost town like Myspace etc.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts

As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit's plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces "open and accessible to users". In a comment shared by r/Apple...

www.macrumors.com

This was predicted by many people. The question once July 1 comes is whether they can find moderators who can do a good job or whether they will ruin the site due to incompetence. It is a lot of work to be a good moderator. It is a volunteer job.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Steve Huffmann, co-founder and CEO of Reddit, held an interview with NBC about the protest. He claims the protest was made by a caste of moderators which are undemocratic and more like a "landed gentry", and is utterly unimpressed by it. He is sticking by the plan to charge for API calls.

“It costs a lot of money to run an app like Reddit. We support ours through ads. And what we can’t do is subsidize other people’s businesses to run a competitive app for free,” he said.

Reddit CEO slams protesters, says he'll change site rules

Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[WolfEyes]

There wouldn't be [m]any complaints if the fees were reasonable. They aren't imo.

 

[Khamon]

There would be some.but they would seem like unreasonable bobbleheads rather than Reddit Corp having that reputation, which they do, because they are.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

r/pics taking the piss

In deference to the king's desire that the landed gentry take votes in regard to blackout, continuing operations, etc...pics puts up for vote whether or not to return to normal operations or only allow pics of John Oliver. Whether or not this was all in jest, I cannot say, yet the results speak for themselves in the latter link.



Follow through:

r/pics

r/pics: A place for media featuring John Oliver.

www.reddit.com

 

[WolfEyes]

There would be some.but they would seem like unreasonable bobbleheads rather than Reddit Corp having that reputation, which they do, because they are.

Yeah about that typo I fixed.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Reddit's CEO went on NBC News and explicitly said he's taking Reddit in a new direction inspired by Musk with Twitter:

Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform

Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted "a handful of times."

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Noodles]

There wouldn't be [m]any complaints if the fees were reasonable. They aren't imo.

Yeah, they are wanting to chage something rediculous like $20 per user per month but they also mentiomed somewhere in this mess that it basically costs them $1/user per month.

This is all a big bull shit play to drive people to the official app and ads and all that juicy data mining.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

r/pics taking the piss

In deference to the king's desire that the landed gentry take votes in regard to blackout, continuing operations, etc...pics puts up for vote whether or not to return to normal operations or only allow pics of John Oliver. Whether or not this was all in jest, I cannot say, yet the results speak for themselves in the latter link.



Follow through:

r/pics

r/pics: A place for media featuring John Oliver.

www.reddit.com

r/gifs also took a vote and is now doing the same thing

 

[Free]

Reddit's CEO went on NBC News and explicitly said he's taking Reddit in a new direction inspired by Musk with Twitter:

Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform

Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted "a handful of times."

www.nbcnews.com

Boy oh boy oh boy...

 

[Khamon]

Reddit's CEO went on NBC News and explicitly said he's taking Reddit in a new direction inspired by Musk with Twitter:

Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform

Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted "a handful of times."

www.nbcnews.com

Considering this, which seems plausible based on recent actions and comments, I’d be looking for a community-based alternative and working toward migrating away if’n I was a reddit mod.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Reddit's CEO went on NBC News and explicitly said he's taking Reddit in a new direction inspired by Musk with Twitter:

Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform

Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted "a handful of times."

www.nbcnews.com

If he intends to also follow Musk down the hole of banning anyone remotely liberal and allowing the nazis full reign it will be just in time to be a disinformation factory for the 2024 election, eh?

If it's anything like last time, left-leaning subs like politics/news will take a turn to the far right in hatred of everything Biden, while pushing RFK Jr. as a legitimate choice. The bots will be running free throughout the entire site.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

FWIW I don't get the impression from his statements that he like necessarily agrees with Musk's politics. Maybe he does, I dunno. He just seemed really excited about the revelation that firing lots of people and charging for data access could increase the company's profit margin.

His big mistake here though is that Steve Huffman is no Elon Musk.

By which I mean, Musk was able to fire almost everyone because the personality cultists he retained and brought in are like, willing and eager to literally suffer just to be able to say that they work for him. They'll sleep in their offices and work mandatory overtime at regular pay and give up vacation days and basically work in an IT sweatshop because they think Musk is Tech Jesus.

Huffman doesn't have any of that. He can't boost the few actual supporters (if any) that he has on Reddit to make it seem like his terrible decisions are actually popular, and if he overburdens his employees too much they're going to just leave.

 

[Free]

FWIW I don't get the impression from his statements that he like necessarily agrees with Musk's politics. Maybe he does, I dunno. He just seemed really excited about the revelation that firing lots of people and charging for data access could increase the company's profit margin.

I look forward to how well they do when Reddit ends their rental and hosting agreements.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

FWIW I don't get the impression from his statements that he like necessarily agrees with Musk's politics. Maybe he does, I dunno. He just seemed really excited about the revelation that firing lots of people and charging for data access could increase the company's profit margin.

His big mistake here though is that Steve Huffman is no Elon Musk.

By which I mean, Musk was able to fire almost everyone because the personality cultists he retained and brought in are like, willing and eager to literally suffer just to be able to say that they work for him. They'll sleep in their offices and work mandatory overtime at regular pay and give up vacation days and basically work in an IT sweatshop because they think Musk is Tech Jesus.

Huffman doesn't have any of that. He can't boost the few actual supporters (if any) that he has on Reddit to make it seem like his terrible decisions are actually popular, and if he overburdens his employees too much they're going to just leave.

He's a prepper, bunker and all, something that a few of the techbros are doing in the event of an apocalyse. As far as politically, libertarian?

Survival of the Richest

Some of the wealthiest people in America—in Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond—are getting ready for the crackup of civilization.

www.newyorker.com

Quote from him: I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.”

 

[WolfEyes]

Funny how they build these things in and around highly populated areas. You know. Main targets.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

He's a prepper, bunker and all, something that a few of the techbros are doing in the event of an apocalyse. As far as politically, libertarian?

Survival of the Richest

Some of the wealthiest people in America—in Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond—are getting ready for the crackup of civilization.

www.newyorker.com

Ah.....maaaaaaybe. Maybe. But, real to real, if I suddenly had that kind of money - disposable income in the millions - I have to admit I'd probably buy at least a small doomsday bunker. Because out of context it's just conceptually a cool thing and also, if you had the money, why would you not? And I'm definitely no kind of ammosexual or prepper or anything like that.

 

[Free]

This is great.

Three of the biggest Reddit communities reopened in the funniest way possible

“All posts must be images of John Oliver looking sexy.”

www.theverge.com

Two huge subreddits, r/pics and r/gifs, now only allow posts about comedian and Last Week Tonight host John Oliver. Both have reopened after going dark as part of the ongoing protests toward Reddit, and after each subreddit polled users, the new rules are now in place.

“As many of you are aware, we recently held a poll to decide on the future of the subreddit,” wrote r/gifs moderator u/IronSentinel. “This initiative was prompted by statements from Reddit’s CEO, who suggested that the desires of the platform’s everyday users were being eclipsed by those of moderators.” Moderators of thousands of subreddits set their communities to private to protest upcoming API changes that will force beloved third-party apps to shut down, but CEO Steve Huffman has argued that not all users are in support.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

A few more joining the malicious compliance train:

r/Steam is now about steam (the state of water) - 1.88 million readers

r/wellthatsucks is now about vacuums - 3.23 million readers

r/memes is now about landed gentry/medieval themes - 26.03 million readers

r/interestingasfuck now has all posts marked as NSFW - 11.65 million readers

r/videos was in on the John Oliver thing but seems to be more general fuck u /spez posts - 26.69 million readers