Lmao god bless indeed!

Discord? That makes zero sense. That company is far more locked down than reddit. They go against everything the internet's openness stands for. Talk about a company that locks both you and your content in.

R/formula1 is transferring to discord as well. Really sad, since reddit did feel like cohesive mindhive, where you could find everything, and where you could go to other communities pretty easy…

Be careful, Discord will ban without warning or explanation, and will not value your privacy.

Well when you put it like that..:eek:

Nearly 12 years and 200k karma, I won't be adding anything of value after the 30th. If I'm confident in another platform I'll simply delete my account here. I still get comments sometimes on old posts months or years later, and all that engagement will end and be deleted if this dirtbag doesn't get removed.

It's not much and I don't really matter to anyone on here or in the executive office at reddit, but I'm also not alone. /b/itch is not qualified to run a lemonade stand let alone reddit.

I've been a marine engineer and I'm going for my PE in electrical engineering. I've managed teams and helped designed laboratories and hospitals. I'd be willing to consult for whoever takes the burning bag of shit spez is leaving them with (when he inevitably gets canned and reddit is convulsing) for free just to help them unfuck this situation. Sure they need changes, but fuck if this isn't an absolute cluster of absolute idiocy that needs to be resolved by professionals who can actually take some heat and make the right long term decisions for the platform (assuming they want it to, you know, actually become something great). This is not one of them.

I'm a wholehearted believer that it's companies responsibility to give back to those who help raise them up, and these moves are an unbelievable FUCK YOU to everyone who contributed over the last decade plus. Especially considering the relative costs when compared to the rest of the platform, and how much value third party apps and access to the API brings in. Reddit is going to end up capping at a billion dollar company when they could be the next Facebook or Microsoft (size wise) for social media aggregation and actually have an opportunity to leave a positive impact on the world rather than becoming something disgraced and run down.

But you do you spez, you greedy little pigboy you. You won't be missed.

Note: I reposted this because /b/itch has automod set to call any ping to his name harassment. What a little pigboy 😂

What people are implicitly hoping is spez stepping down results in someone with more care and sincere stewardship of Reddit take his place.

The first party mobile app is simply uncompetitive against third party offerings in feature set / sheet offering, but nonetheless has a huge chunk of Reddit traffic just due to being a first party offering.

Leadership involves investing in existing tools so they are efficient and serve user needs, not spending disproportionate amount of money on features that are contributing to Reddit's lack of profit (or spending in ways that are disproportionately inefficient; death by committee and group process is very much a real thing in large orgs if not actively tackled).

You know, you're right. And even if it is a full time job, it's not like he's CEO of a big corporation.

Spez sees third party applications as stealing Reddit revenue.

Exactly! And it's disturbing that he doesn't understand why that's a giant load of bullshit.

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Content removed in protest of Reddit treatment of users, moderators, the visually impaired community and 3rd party app developers.

If you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks: Reddit abruptly announced they would be charging astronomically overpriced API fees to 3rd party apps, cutting off mod tools. Worse, blind redditors & blind mods (including mods of r/Blind and similar communities) will no longer have access to resources that are desperately needed in the disabled community.

Removal of 3rd party apps

Moderators all across Reddit rely on third party apps to keep subreddit safe from spam, scammers and to keep the subs on topic. Despite Reddit’s very public claim that "moderation tools will not be impacted", this could not be further from the truth despite 5+ years of promises from Reddit. Toolbox in particular is a browser extension that adds a huge amount of moderation features that quite simply do not exist on any version of Reddit - mobile, desktop (new) or desktop (old). Without Toolbox, the ability to moderate efficiently is gone. Toolbox is effectively dead.

All of the current 3rd party apps are either closing or will not be updated. With less moderation you will see more spam (OnlyFans, crypto, etc.) and more low quality content. Your casual experience will be hindered.

I'm pretty sure Woody answered more questions

I've been a mod of the wrestling sub /r/squaredcircle for like 8 years at this point and this is pretty much it. I love wrestling and the community in general and modding it has been pretty rewarding. Hell I got the chance to talk to an Idol of mine in Dan Severn when we got him booked for an AMA which blew my mind at the time. I don't think a lot of the mods want payment, just want our lives as unpaid volunteers to not be more stressful.

Yup I also think it's 100% what they meant by that. Any of these subs talking about doing an indefinite blackout – I get where they're coming from, I don't disagree. But I don't think it's going to go the way any of us want.

I’m personally expecting Reddit to break/restrict/remove the option to make subs private before Monday. A code change regarding permissions or availability of the feature would be easier than trying to moderate large subs themselves.

Edit: inb4 “don’t give them ideas!” - I’m slow and dumb. If I thought of this I’m sure someone else already has.

I think they could try mod replacement, but how long could it possibly last? The whole point is that moderating is to become impossible given the limitations of available tools. The current mods say they can't do it so there's no reason to believe new ones would be able to.

Moderation is such a hard problem, even if you try to be like facebook and pay people to do it. Reddit has been getting it for free all these years, they do not even understand what they have.

I posted the other day about an email I got from stackoverflow trying to recruit me to scab on their striking moderators. Even if I decided to have a go at it, what are the odds that I'd be any good? I do not know anything about how that site is run. I can only guess what a shit show must be going on if they are just letting any jackass off the street moderate. Who will guide and train the new mods, on SOF or reddit? And how will they handle the job when the useful tools are prohibited?

Reddit might try to recruit new mods. They might woo some existing mods back by making some concessions. They might even try paying people to do it. But it will not last very long because it seems like they have stumbled into a huge battle without having made any preparations.

Honestly from a strategic POV, they should have just bought Apollo for $10mil because then there would be a chance that they could clear house and get people who see things their (demented) way installed. But now they have destroyed that chance and are totally flat footed.

It absolutely sounded like a threat

I don't see how that can be taken any other way especially in light of all the other poor decisions they have made in the past.

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That's kind of my point. Don't. Let's help them burn it down.

I mean yeah, don't most mods feel that way? Isn't that why everyone is protesting in the first place? But if admin is going to make our jobs harder by removing the 3rd party apps that make modding easier, then maybe it's just hard enough that we can't do it. 🤷

Yeah I'm constantly removing human trafficking posts from one of my subs so yeah, I get it.

I'll be honest - my protest IS quitting, but I'm leaving the subs in hands of other moderators who I know will carry the torch. But I think this approach I'm suggesting would be way more effective than a blackout, in that it would be WAY harder for admins to fix.

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