SNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/921606

sub might turn into orca only sub

For those of you out of the loop, Reddit admins took it upon themselves to remove a meme about Orca's attacking yachts. source

Not even that...literally a screenshot of an article by The Atlantic saying the orcas are bad for attacking boats and then underneath it a scene from The Office with the caption altered to say "You know what? Now I'm going to root for the orcas even harder." source

During the mastodon migration there was a script to find Twitter users on Mastodon based on info they put in their bio. Based on this link, we could automate some of that. Does anything already exist to do this?

I found this video and I thought I should share it.

Looking for a replacement of r/offmychest

Archived link

Excerpt:

In our last email to them, we stated that we wanted $4.5 million in exchange for the deletion of the data and our silence. As we also stated, if we had to make this public, then we now demand that they also withdraw their API pricing changes along with our money or we will leak it.

We expect to leak the data.

I've received this message on my inbox just a few hours after deleting my posts (all of them) last night.

I'm just glad to know where they stand.

And yes, I know that a lot of people have unsavory views about that subreddit, but I guess there's just no accounting for taste.

“All posts must be images of John Oliver looking sexy.”

Crosspost from: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/45738

When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit’s community won’t ever be the same.

I've used PowerDeleteSuite to edit all my comments on Reddit. After it was "done" I immediately looked at my top comments and only about 20 % were actually edited. Is reddit randomly blocking edits? Do I have to run it multiple times?

[Note: the link is for the archive, to not give Reddit unnecessary traffic. Here's a link to the original.]

Apparently r/pics is protesting through malicious compliance; the subreddit is open again, but all content being shown is uninteresting pictures of... who's John ~~Galt~~ Oliver?

And the moderators decided to actually consult their community, on what they should do. You could vote on two options:

• Upvote this comment if you want /r/Pics to feature only images of John Oliver looking sexy. As of time of archiving this option was at +51k points.
• Upvote this comment if you want to return to normal operation. As of time of archiving this option was -8k points.

Interesting detail on how the r/pics moderators worded it:

Anyway, we – the so-called "landed gentry" – definitely want to comply with the wishes of the "royal court,"

I personally didn't realise that there is such an implication on what Pigboy said - that if he's calling the mods "landed gentry", he sees himself as a king.

EDIT: as other users are pointing out, other subs are doing the same sort of malicious compliance, so I'll share them here:

• r/gifs (archive link, (original link). As of time of archiving it has +21k points for John Oliver gifs only, and -5k points for returning to normal
• r/art (original link) - as of now (7:20, São Paulo time), votes are still not visible. Same as above, John Oliver vs. normal operations.
• r/aww (archive link, original link) - +56k "to only feature John Oliver, Chiijohn, and their lookalikes bein adorable", -2.5k to return to normal.
• r/showerthoughts (archive link, original link). Voting on the days that the subreddit should be open or closed.

Archive Link from archive.today

Original link from Business Insider