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

A TL;DR:

• Laying out context and background info (API prices)
• Exposing maths on API access prices, in comparison with Imgur ones, to show that they are unreasonable.
• Concluding that Reddit is using the huge prices to intentionally kill third party apps*.
• Talking about the poor quality of the official app.
• How the move effectively deplatforms blind people, followed by a Torvalds style "fuck you, Reddit".
• ~~Cat tax at 7:20~~
• Devil's lawyer point: the fact that we cannot see Reddit's finances, as it is not a public company.
• The "fever dream" of the 2010s, and how many companies of those times were never profitable, as they were focusing on [my own words] on the value instead of the profit [/my own words]
• Mentions on how even the site originally hosting the video [Youtube - NB, the link is from Odysee] lost money in those times, as well as Twitter did, implying that Reddit is probably in the same bag.
• Talking about transparency - i.e. that if Reddit is bleeding money, it should say it, so the users do not assume the worst. That concludes the devil's lawyer point, as he shows that even if it was a necessary action from Reddit's side of the thing (is it?), it's still scummy as fuck.
• On users losing trust on Reddit and saying "we're leaving". Ipsis litteris "the community will remember what you did, and screwing over vast swaths of disabled people is a really, really great way to look like the type of piece of shit that nobody wants to give money or revenue to, ever again."
• Telling Reddit to either reconsider the decision or at the very least give it a damn good reason, otherwise users will outright refuse to use Reddit or do it with the most restricted ad blocking possible.

*personal note: Rossmann didn't mention it, but I will. Reddit is lying that it doesn't want to kill third party apps, and the lie itself makes everything worse.

I'm posting this here because it's often helpful to see things from a third point of view.

For context: Reddit decided to kill off third party apps that are used to access its platform, by demanding unreasonable prices off those apps' developers, while claiming that it is not trying to kill said third party apps. As a reaction, a lot of moderators in Reddit are coordinating for a blackout, where they make their subreddits inaccessible from the 12th to the 14th of June.

On Hacker News:

• It amazes me how little Reddit's leadership understand about their own history. // Reddit essentially took off because Digg screwed the pooch so hard with their redesign and just general mismanagement of their community.
• Ask HN: Reddit alternatives (that aren't Mastodon) - spoilers, you're already in the alternative suggested across that thread, Lemmy.
• I wish they would just let Reddit die. // I hate it so much. I'm tired of ecosystems. // We need to get away from content farms. [...] Part of me wants this to happen to Hacker News too. This community sucks, but for different reasons.
• I said something akin to this on a 4chan post a little while ago and people hated me for it, but I stand by it. People need to 1) get more in touch with the technology they're using and 2) take back control of their content.
• [On issues associated with the creation of a Reddit alternative] Hosting costs [...], moderation [...], network effects

Personal note: it's rather interesting for me that the userbase of Reddit is getting it right, people outside Reddit are also getting it right, but only the Reddit administration is getting it wrong (way to go, vulture capital!). In special, I think that the comment about how people need to take back control of their content is specially sensible.

Remove your content from Reddit.

As a platform, Reddit is only as valuable as the content in itReddit is as valuable as the content in it. So by removing everything that you posted or commented from the platform, you're discouraging its usage. No more suckers being lulled into Reddit by your content.

If you're concerned about the potential loss of internet information, consider storing anything that you feel as "valuable content" elsewhere where other people can access. And, if you're too lazy to do it by hand (like I am!), two helpful tools are u/dessalines' Reddit-History and Power Delete Suite.

It should be obvious too, but don't produce new content for the platform.

Feed the Fediverse. (Or other alternatives.)

If you're reading this, odds are that you're already feeding lemmy.ml with some content. Good! Bring content here to the Fediverse, or to Tildes. It could be your own original content or stuff copied from Reddit (just don't advertise that site when doing it.)

Even building your own personal blog helps, as information found in Reddit becomes way less valuable if it is also found elsewhere.

If you're still using Reddit, do not install their app, and do not consent to their targetted advertisement.

I think that it is no surprise for anyone that Reddit Inc. lives off adbux (advertisement money) and data mining its own users. As such, by accessing the site through an advertisement blocker, and by refusing consent to personalised ads (check the preferences), you're already helping a bit.

Scorch the land, make it unpleasing.

Being obnoxious, mocking users, being abravise, or overall being a jerk is not illegal. You can always do it there, specially in subreddits with large numbers of subscribers.

Evading bans is also not illegal. If a moderator kicked you off, make his work extra hard by coming back and shitposting in the same subreddit.

Derail serious threads with uninteresting content. Noise makes any environment less valuable.

Raise awareness.

Reddit killed the third party apps out of greed, because they want to datamine you through an official app that sucks.

Reddit has been censoring its users since forever.

Reddit used to host the alt group site called The_Donald, and refused to take action against it for too long.

Harassment is rampant in Reddit, Reddit has the tools to prevent it (as the Aimee Challenor case shows), and yet refuses to protect its own users with them.

The Reddit administration is consistently lying to Reddit users, as it expects them to be stupid.

There are a thousand issues with Reddit. You can - and should - make people know them.