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Apple Subreddit Goes Dark in Protest of Reddit's API Pricing Changes
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Still can't figure out what Reddit is. I get the play on words ... "read it". The only time I've gone to Reddit is via some random search result, but it has never struck me as useful. I must be missing the point of it. And I'm surprised that Apple is participating in this.
most subs that are doing this have announced indefinite hiatuses, they are 100% willing to let Huffman eat s—t for what he’s doing right now. I think (for all the hate he’s gotten recently on here), Gruber put it best a few days ago—“What do you think Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz would say about this if he were still alive?”
The Apple subreddit is not run by Apple.
More and more news outlets are picking up the story. Who the hell is going to want to invest in a company run like this?
I saw some discussion of this, one of the ideas I saw mods discuss was to disable all moderation features (auto mod, minimum karma count, etc) on the subreddits if this happens. It would take a lot of effort for Reddit to manually fix all of that barring some kind of total site rollback.
This being said, 48 hours is weak. They should have done a week minimum.
LOL, I had to look up to see what Reddit is. Looking at its investors and purpose made me shudder. It’s definitely not for me! 😉
I wish them luck...there are thousands of mods and reddit has already been laying off staff. The entire house of cards is contingent upon users volunteering knowledge and answers while other volunteers do all the modding.
This isn't as easy as you think.
Remember digg? How did that turn out? Remember myspace?
It won’t make a difference if there is no mass exodus of the platform. Just look at Twitter.
I shamefully admit to skimming and jumping straight to the comments 🤭
Forgive me, deleted!
Well, how valuable those large subreddits are? Even if every single one of them go dark or bust completely? Those contents have already been submitted to the platform And reddit team can still set them as read-only or unmoderated wild west to create an illusion of active user base to appease IPO. Heck, with the proliferation of AI nowadays, it is not that hard anymore to fake user activities via AI (Multiple ChatGPT bots) so as to maintain the illusion of user engagement, in turn traffic will be attracted and ad revenue can continue.
On the other side, if most reddit community somehow stands up and protest, resulting in long term (1 year At least) traffic reduction of 90% or more, maybe things can change. But even that is still not a guarantee. I am more than happy to watch how a big platform like Reddit, which is not necessity btw, toppled by an external force.
On the other side, if most reddit community somehow stands up and protest, resulting in long term (1 year At least) traffic reduction of 90% or more, maybe things can change. But even that is still not a guarantee. I am more than happy to watch how a big platform like Reddit, which is not necessity btw, toppled by an external force.
You have vastly underestimated the power of money and how useful an established platform can be. Plus corporations can just bombard us with more ads.
and moderate them how? 'wild west' is gonna result in a lot of trolls intentionally spreading hate speech.
/r/videos i believe is closing their subreddit indefinitely until the matter is resolved in a way that is more palatable to users, devs and moderators
Good. If they actually keep this new API pricing, I'll just delete my Reddit account. The official app is abysmal.
I saw a very good video on Youtube yesterday from Louis Rossman talking about why this protest needs to last longer than 48 hours. If you go dark for 48 hours and then come back, that's not much of a protest.
It may force some people to leave Reddit, if their usually frequented subs go dark.
I am finally able to touch grass! Less time on the Internet!
Modern Usenet. A huge group of forums. That’s all it seems to me. And a place with a lot of absolutely crazy politically obsessed people that will destroy you if you contradict their worldview no matter what the topic or forum. But on the whole I found it useful to help with learning generative AI image creation.