u/Jordan117

They want to force people into using their dogshit privacy-invading dark-patterned-out-the-ass app by making the original web UI less and less usable. It also artificially juices traffic to the homepage, conveniently. You can expect continued user-hostile anti-improvements like this; I'm sure this is a prelude to killing Old Reddit.

old.lemmy.world sends its regards.

They want to force people into using their dogshit privacy-invading dark-patterned-out-the-ass app by making the original web UI less and less usable. It also artificially juices traffic to the homepage, conveniently. You can expect continued user-hostile anti-improvements like this; I'm sure this is a prelude to killing Old Reddit.

Not posting in visible-to-you places != inactive. I just re-read all modmails from the last several months and none offered any actual material to contribute; PM the link to the message or the username in case the flaky modmail page isn't surfacing it for some reason.

If you're not a porn or T-shirt spammer and have an original meme to share please do so via PM using the account you want approved.

update: one week later and still no response to this very simple ask.

Hi. The sub has not been locked for over a year now. Comments are open, and new submissions are open to a list of approved submitters with a track record of creating quality memes (i.e. NOT screenshots of tweets or reposts of Facebook slop). Browse the top posts from the last year for plenty of examples.

If you want to be approved, just PM a sample of an existing or new meme posted by your account (OC only) that fits the definition in the sidebar. Thanks.

Getting rid of a dedicated "OC" tag is definitely appropriate for a website that has driven off many of its original content creators while allowing itself to be overrun by repost bots.

I watched that event, and he failed to meet my (low) expectations for "apologizing". From a comment I made off-site immediately afterward:

• No apology when confronted on the "landed gentry" stuff, lots of "I was misinterpreted/taken out of context" BS

• Apologized (to "the team", not mods/users) for poor communication strategy

• Dismissed pro-blackout polling as brigaded

• Defended the MCoC actions [note: threatening to remove mods via an anonymous admin account] as targeting "bad behaving mods"

• Zero mention of the exorbitant API pricing, rushed timeline, misrepresentation of devs, failed AMA

• "I support protests" (read: that don't obstruct corporate in any way)

Genuine regret and repair requires not just acknowledging the many user-hostile actions from Reddit, Inc. (beyond mealymouthed "mistakes were made" vagueness), but taking real steps to undo the damage -- directly and unambiguously apologizing, reinstating ousted mods, recognizing the community's right to protest without retaliation from Reddit, Inc., and walking back or otherwise rethinking the API changes in a way that addresses the many legitimate problems people had with them and the sloppy, dishonest, uncompromising way they were rolled out.

Maybe a vague non-apology apology and time is enough for you, but for the many, many users that walked away in disgust over the way spez handled this, it isn't, and will never be until something resembling actual contrition rather than empty lip-service comes out of the leadership driving these deeply unpopular changes.

Update: lol. lmao.

I was in one of these meetings (and I think you were too). All the admins on the call were very patient and understanding and even apologetic about what went down this summer, and promised to do better. I definitely felt like my complaints were actively listened to and taken seriously. You're great.

Unfortunately, the problem is that recent experience has shown that these community and mod-focused admin teams seem completely disconnected from the actual corporate decisionmakers at Reddit, Inc. As a result, the promises you make to do better feel utterly hollow and unreliable, and the feedback you gather ignored by anybody with the power to act on it. I left with the feeling that while you all mean well, the larger corporate power structure does not value or care about our priorities or concerns and will run roughshod over them again the moment it's convenient, as has already happened multiple times since the API protest.

Understand: the real pain point of that fiasco that poisoned the well here for so many was not the raw technical changes, which were of course frustrating, but rather the complete refusal of company leadership to reconsider, meet halfway, or even acknowledge people's valid criticisms, which was only further inflamed by spez's dismissive, contemptuous comments (both public and private) and the unprecedently threatening treatment of longtime mods. As long as that deep violation of goodwill and trust is unaddressed by the actual people who drove it (rather than lower-level employees who were not responsible for the drama and have no power to stop it from happening again), all the chipper blog posts, road shows, and listening sessions in the world will amount to jack squat. If anything, they're deepening the damage by reminding everyone of your continuing attempts to paper over our grievances without doing anything concrete to address them.

Crypto bullshit is a strong contender with Reddit, Inc. bullshit for the platform I trust the least at this point. If only there were a way to shoehorn Xitter in there somehow.

What's the point? They got rid of sponsored services years ago, and the monthly coins you used to get are now dead. It does still block ads (for now) but I promise I'd be doing that with extreme prejudice regardless. I guess it's cool that I've got 18 years of "custom app icons" for the dogshit app I refuse to use, though! And it's neat to be able to put exclusive virtual clothes on my avatar, totally makes up for the naked contempt site ownership shows for its core users.

I had over 80k coins and 18 years of premium earned from years of posts here (all OC). You erased all of it without providing anything in exchange. Now you're asking us to start contributing even more free content, starting from zero, right after demonstrating how little you valued everything that came before? Lol. Lmao, even.

If you showed any actual respect for our participation here, I might actually be interested in this program. Given recent history, I'm fine never contributing anything of value here ever again.

Knock yourself out, bud.

It's not "my" subreddit, it's a team effort. The other mods and community were in support from the start. I haven't posted recently for a number of reasons, but have had some private (including mod) activity in the meantime, which alone makes this request ineligible, assuming this sub is going to follow its own rules.

I enjoy making and seeing election memes too, which is why I think it's important to provide a platform for them that is free from manipulation and bad actors. Work on that continues. Watch this space.

Hi. I've made my feelings about site management known but as a whole the mod team has not decided on a permanent shutdown. The problem is that removal of critical tools like PushShift and various bot detection projects have made fighting spam, reposts, and brigading much more difficult, on a sub that already has a history of being targeted by sophisticated influence operations during the last election. We haven't decided on the best course of action -- it's still very early in the primary season -- but stay tuned.

I've been a member here since the Digg migration more than 13 years ago. I've hit the front page multiple times (always with OC) and helped mod a number of sizeable subs, including one where the admins selected me from a crowd of volunteers. Just before the protest I was preparing to put a bunch of work into rehabilitating a useful sub that had been abandoned by a toxic mod.

Tbh, I never even used third-party apps myself, I just supported the protest in solidarity with those who did (like one longtime user who was responsible for maintaining some critical bots, or, uh, blind people). But the CEO's contemptuous behavior in public and private, the hamfisted and bullying way they handled protesting subs, and the mass of unpopular and user-hostile changes they piled on afterwards has permanently soured me on this site. I used to browse religiously, now I've set up custom extensions to redirect all Reddit links to Wayback Machine caches so I don't even accidentally give them traffic. I haven't posted or commented in months -- certainly haven't done free labor for the greedy assholes ruining this place -- and don't see myself contributing anything of value here ever again. I'm on Lemmy, Tildes, and MetaFilter now, and while slower-paced they don't make me feel used any time I post something. Judging from the commentary I see from other longtime, high-quality contributors around the web, I'm definitely not alone in feeling that way, or in noticing the subsequent dive in post quality across the board. That's what the protests achieved: ripping the mask off of Reddit's enshittification in pursuit of becoming a bot-plagued repost mill for zombie phone scrollers, and prompting most people who actually give a shit about quality and community to find greener pastures. I trust that Reddit Inc.'s continued dismantling of everything that makes Reddit good (I'm sure RSS feeds and Old Reddit are next) will continue this trend.

(And for any smartasses about to ask why I'm even posting here then, it's because I'm stopping by to offload the 80,000+ coins I've received for quality contributions over the years in order to give my favorite still-active users Reddit Premium. The fact that this will help decrease Reddit's ad revenue is a pleasingly symmetrical "fuck you" to the site for erasing everybody's coins without any compensation.)

Sounds like you need to brush up on your current policy:

NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content

Content that contains nudity, pornography, or profanity, which a reasonable viewer may not want to be seen accessing in a public or formal setting such as in a workplace should be tagged as NSFW. This tag can be applied to individual pieces of content or to entire communities.

Maybe add an addendum: "NSFW communities may be forced to identify as SFW (thus exposing minors and advertisers to explicit content) if the boneheaded corporate leadership driving good-faith users away has made us desperate enough to monetize clearly brand un-safe subreddits." Call it the Spez Rule.

It's already started.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ZeroWaste/comments/14m9s2g/unfortunately_due_to_bot_activity_we_have_to/

https://old.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/14mzerh/a_ton_of_accounts_associated_with_temu/

https://subredditstats.com/list/posts-per-day

Don't listen to the fearmongering, the "Auto Save Page" function is something the IA intentionally built into their official extension to improve their coverage of new sites. They WANT people to use it, it's not wasting their bandwidth.

Also, blind and visually impaired users have every right to access websites on the go, same as anybody else.

The National Federation of the Blind needs to be on top of this; everyone should contact them today and let them know what Reddit Inc. is doing to its blind users. One of the largest social media sites in the world is freezing out a protected class from core site and community functions.

edit: More resources:

American Council of the Blind: Contact Us - Twitter

Note: The ACB national conference is currently taking place in Schaumburg, Illinois. Hashtag #ACB23 to get eyes on this (thanks /u/JohnMLTX)

California Council of the Blind (Reddit Inc.'s local chapter)

American Foundation for the Blind: Disability Rights Resources for People with Vision Loss

Third party apps were perfectly functional and usable, including accessibility options. Reddit Inc. killing them to force people into their garbage app was the primary driver of this protest. The "accessibility apps" they permitted are barebones stopgaps and their own "accessibility" updates are obviously rushed CYA moves that don't meet people's actual needs.

Unless Reddit claims fucking over blind people is their sincere religious belief, yesterday's awful decision doesn't apply here. Though I wouldn't put something like that past Reddit Inc.

What are you talking about? They literally provide a browser extension that can automatically archive every page you visit as you browse, adding dozens or even hundreds of pages per user per day. And that's on top of internet-scale crawlers that back up billions of pages from across the web. This is some pretty ridiculous fearmongering.