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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jun 20, 2023 6:57:12 GMT -5
If you're going to quit doing something in order to apply pressure to someone, don't tell them when you're going to stop, especially if it's only for 2 days. Imagine a union going on strike and telling their boss "k it's going to be only a day or two, you don't really need to worry".
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Post by Push R Truth on Jun 20, 2023 7:09:28 GMT -5
If you're going to quit doing something in order to apply pressure to someone, don't tell them when you're going to stop, especially if it's only for 2 days. Imagine a union going on strike and telling their boss "k it's going to be only a day or two, you don't really need to worry". That part was so odd to me. Kinda reminded me of a friend that claims they will never drink again on a Thursday Night but is already openly talking about drinking all weekend.
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Post by Bo Rida on Jun 20, 2023 8:11:58 GMT -5
Many subreddit mods have stopped modding and now everything is porn.
Partially because nsfw subs get less/no money from advertisers.
Imagine finding a way to get rich off the backs of a volunteer workforce with no backlash and deciding to risk losing that for a bit more money.
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Post by mo on Jun 20, 2023 9:21:02 GMT -5
Lol them making a big stand about we're not backing down, we're locking down for as long as it takes! Then they barely lasted a week before returning because the mods didn't want to lose their positions. I wouldn't even care if they didn't even join in the shutdown to begin with but to talk all big then cave in so easily is hilarious. Not only that but they were caught shitposting amongst themselves while the subreddit was private, just as mods on basically every subreddit that went down have been caught doing, from MMA to NBA to NFL and so on. Simply epic! The NBA Reddit mods having their own Finals game thread during the blackout then deleting all the comments when it was found was some funny shit. I don’t look at many subreddits but based on what I’ve seen, the biggest accomplishment these blackouts have achieved seems to be annoying the users and making the mods look stupid. Probably not what they were going for.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Jun 20, 2023 17:34:34 GMT -5
Appropriately enough the Batman Arkham sub hasn't changed in the slightest.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jun 20, 2023 17:49:03 GMT -5
The JoJo shitposting sub is full of hentai now 😮💨
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Post by darbus alan on Jun 20, 2023 18:01:47 GMT -5
If you're going to quit doing something in order to apply pressure to someone, don't tell them when you're going to stop, especially if it's only for 2 days. Imagine a union going on strike and telling their boss "k it's going to be only a day or two, you don't really need to worry". Unions also have the backing of labor laws that protect their striking members from getting fired or retaliated against and permanently replaced by opportunistic scabs. Reddit mods don't have such protections, especially after the admin team sent them threatening letters that if they weren't going to mod their subs, they'd find someone else who would.
It basically became a no-win situation as the privated communities were annoying more and more of their users and Reddit admins introduced an animus to replace the mods with what would likely be far worse mods. So instead a lot of subs have moved on to malicious compliance (the NSFW subs or posting pics of John Oliver).
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Post by Zombie Mod on Jun 20, 2023 18:03:31 GMT -5
I know people listing what sub-reddits are porn filled now without the intention of "here be the porn go look" and are posting it more in the "warning this subject is porn filled now" intention but I'm going to ask that no other sub-reddits are named going forward as we dont want proboards thinking you're doing the former and causing issues for the board.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jun 22, 2023 4:30:28 GMT -5
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Jun 22, 2023 17:30:27 GMT -5
"People need to stop posting porn so we're going to ban the people who can stop that from happening."
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 22, 2023 17:35:57 GMT -5
Something the dipshit running the site really needs to realize is that it's picking a fight it's never going to actually win. If users are en masse making the site worse out of spite then trying to discipline them isn't going to stop them, they're either going to keep doing it or they're just going to leave. This isn't the kind of problem you can solve through force.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jun 23, 2023 14:41:14 GMT -5
I have yet to decide what I’ll do once Narwhal stops working.
Odds are I’ll cave and switch to the official app but I don’t know.
I use Narwhal because it closely resembles old.Reddit and I exclusively use that if I’m using a computer to access it.
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Post by The Legendary Ring Troll {BLM} on Jun 23, 2023 15:23:48 GMT -5
I use Baconreader. Not sure how affected, if at all, it'll be by this API thing, but the day the subreddits went private, I chose to stop visiting Reddit completely. I caught myself a couple of times trying to pull it up before I realized what I was doing. It's very strange having so much free time now, Reddit was the only social media I used after dropping Facebook, Instagram and Twitter years ago. Now I find myself here more, reloading pages, looking for new things to read.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jun 26, 2023 15:53:18 GMT -5
So on top of everything else, it turns out that Reddit may be violating CCPA and GDPR as they refuse to delete posts and comments, including ones with personal information, even when you delete your account. They expect YOU to do so manually before deleting your account, except they will also take the liberty of restoring your posts & comments even after you've manually deleted them if they feel like it:
So to recap:
- Reddit profits off user-made content it doesn't pay for; - Reddit also profits off volunteer mod work it doesn't pay for; - Reddit can and will restore the content you've posted, without your approval, even if you went out of your way to delete it AND requested it be deleted, so that they may continue profitting off it, even if it potentially jeopardizes your privacy.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Jun 26, 2023 16:20:41 GMT -5
Spez realised that user data is the biggest asset the company has, and it's value lies in training AI and he's very much from the 'It's only illegal if you get stopped before you're rich enough to drag out cases forever through the courts' camp of techbro. Unfortunately for Spez, he/reddit aren't big enough for that as he waited too long for the IPO because he didn't want to have to clean up the far right subs because he's a scumbag who viewed them as 'valuable discourse' even as they were engaged in sitewide harassment campaigns and stochastic terrorism, the crypto stuff was a failure that has been fought by most of the userbase every step of the way, so selling user data is his last resort.
Unfortunately for Spez, there are tools that are growing in popularity that go through a user's post history, replacing every post with garbage before account deletion, so people don't have to wait for the EU to force their hand when it comes to deletion.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jun 28, 2023 13:09:41 GMT -5
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