Reddit

After the Verge article I couldn't wait until the 30th. Almost 12 years on the site. It's bitter sweet but I'm ready to fully embrace our new communities.

I think trying to protest reddit via the blackouts is one tactic, but it appears to be losing a lot of steam for many misinformed reasons. I'm betting there's a lot of shilling as well.

Perhaps the next phase should be to go after Reddit's investors and advertisers and make it clear to them they are investing and posting ads in a dying community and will lose a ton of money.

In other words, investing in the dying reddit is a quick way to lose money. Investors and advertisers should pull out of reddit ASAP.

Fidelity cut the value of it's stake in reddit by nearly half earlier this year. It's likely that reddit's value is going to tank substantially in the next few months. https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/fidelity-reddit-valuation/

Here are some of the investors that have some stake in reddit:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reddit/company_financials

I think it needs to be made clear that reddit is absolutely nothing without the community it attracts. The communities are driven by high engagement and good moderators who are all volunteers and work for free

Moderators are unable to work without proper moderation tools. Reddit admins have promised better ones for years and nothing has come to fruition. It's all lies.

The community is unable to have any sense of engagement if they can't post or access content due to default website and Reddit app simply being broken and littered with ads that are completely irrelevant to the audience.

Speaking of ads, advertisers should also stop paying for ads because they're being blatantly mistargeted. You're wasting A TON of money on ads that will not only not be clicked, but will be straight up blocked.

It's unlikely reddit will fix these glaring issues since they've made that promise for nearly a decade and have only made things substantially worse.

In short, anyone who wants to invest in reddit should invest elsewhere. You WILL lose your money. It's guaranteed.

If you want to further investigate: Link to Reddit post

I mean, those of you who used to have 10+ years old accounts that then went and overwrote them using something like Shreddit or Power Delete, how long did it took for it to go through all that?

I just logged in and checked my reddit account, and all my deleted posts have come back.

Let's say we have someone who shitposts on a subreddit. The mods will ban the shitposter, but the shitposter deletes their account. Now can the mods ban this deleted account? They can remove the post, but now they wonder whether they can ban the account. How would that work? Would the mods request the admins to look at the deleted account? Also, how does that work with the ban evasion filter?

If you pay to run an ad, each view or "impression" is usually only a fraction of a cent. However, every time a person clicks on an ad it costs a whole lot more. There are measures in place to avoid someone paying for a user accidentally clicking an ad. The user really needs to click on a link or two on the landing page for the ad and let the following page load to guarantee it registers as an ad click. The advertising rates reddit can charge are directly related to the conversion rate of ad clicks to the revenue generated by the advertiser. The server that hosted the ad will see both where the user came from and where they go. So if you were to say, go to a direct competitor's website next, it would send a certain message, and if you went to say, google, bing, or amazon, it would send another message about how reddit is not a good demographics choice.

If, let's say, totally hypothetically, a whole bunch of users went to reddit and started clicking on ads, then at least one link on the landing page, then went to another site, then deleted their cookies and site data. What kind of Noise would that generate?

A post from r/apple explaining why they were forced to reopen their subreddit after planning to close indefinitely.

Quotes from the r/apple announcement:

Reddit’s asshole CEO u/spez made it clear that Reddit was not backing down on their changes but assured users that apps or tools meant for accessibility will be unharmed along with most moderation tools and bots. While this was great to hear, it still wasn't enough. So along with hundreds of other subreddits including our friends over at r/iPhone, r/iOS, r/AppleWatch, and r/Jailbreak, we decided to stay private indefinitely until Reddit changed course by giving third-party apps a fair price for API access.

Now you must be wondering, “I’m seeing this post, does that mean they budged?” Unfortunately, the answer is no. You are seeing this post because Reddit has threatened to open subreddits regardless of mod action and replace entire teams that otherwise refuse. We want the best for this community and have no choice but to open it back up — or have it opened for us.

NOTE: The URL linked to this post is a web.archive.org archive linked to a Libreddit instance to prevent Reddit from taking down that post from the internet + prevent giving Reddit direct traffic. Other links linked here go straight to Libreddit urls or to news articles. No links here lead directly to Reddit.

Libreddit is a third-party web client hosted by third-party servers.

Link to full post

EDIT: fixed grammar.

On Tech News Weekly, Mikah Sargent and Jason Howell talk with Christian Selig, the developer of the widely popular iOS Reddit app Apollo, about the Reddit API changes. Reddit announced these changes a few weeks ago. As a result, numerous 3rd party Reddit apps are closing down before these changes are live, resulting in numerous subreddits going dark to protest the API changes.___

Link to a thread where user is in panic over inability to log in on mobile web browser but is assured by reddit admin that is an "experiment"

Mentioned on this Ars story

Such a jerk move, I'm not going back to reddit anymore.

Main points: He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.

Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.

He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.

I'm all in on Lemmy

Had left dozens of subs a few days ago. I saw others saying they were re-subbed so I checked today. I was put back into subs I left MONTHS ago.

I fully expect the posts I deleted to reappear soon as well

Disappointed that NPR didn't elaborate more on how Huffman truly fucked over Christian Selig.

“If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators[…]. If […] at least one mod wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.”