This is a great protest technique that I think everyone can get behind because it's fun. It might actually increase engagement in the short term as everyone wants to mess around with it, but in the long term if this stays active it hurts the subs actual usability.
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The hypocritcal thing here is that Worldpolitics did this years ago and reddit didn't care.
I don't think reddit will die, but they definitely hurt themselves. The fediverse grew by leaps and bounds over the past week, reddit drove so much traffic to their potential competitors. Then when the 3rd party apps die, they'll lose some more.
Reddit is gambling on gaining enough revenue from pushing people on 3rd party apps to 1st party that it makes up for the loss of users overall.
People on reddit say "Why do we care about 3rd party apps, it's such a small section of the userbase" But apparently reddit cares enough about that small section of the userbase that they need to push them to their own app.
It's funny, years ago websites switched to openly available APIs specifically to lessen server burden because of bots. Now they're swapping away from APIs because of bots, but those bots are just gonna go back to scraping.
For in person, we do a lot of Jackbox.
When online, SCP Secret labs has been a favorite. Every few weeks someone will usually want to play and we'll do a few rounds.
I really enjoy additional armor sets to add variety to the world, specifically sets that look like they belong in Skyrim and match the aesthetic.
Using a combination of the creation club Alternate Armor mods, and Armor Variants Expansion is a favorite of mine.
AVE is similar to the Creation Club Alternate Armors, they're the same sets with new appearances, so with both combined each type of armor has a lot more variation in what can appear without impacting game balance or the aesthetic.
I was so amazed by GTA3 compared to GTA2, the cars had individually destructible pieces!
There have been reports that reddit is restoring deleted content. Some are saying it may be a GDPR violation if you're requesting reddit to delete your data.
I believe this, either way there's enough other questionable content around Spez to criticize him, like how he said they wouldn't remove Coronavirus misinformation despite all the largest subs wanting it removed, much like the current blackout.
Yes, they installed a new head mod and the new head mod bans anyone who brings it up. The new mod is a moderator of 106 different subreddits.
The funny thing is that many people remaining on reddit have been praising the admins for threatening to remove mods, because they hate the power mods who control all the subs and want to see them removed, but that's exactly who reddit is using to replace the mods they dislike.
From what I've seen many of them seem to hate the fact that moderators have banned them, so they're happy the mods may be removed from power.
Most of these users are right-wing, and seem to forget that any mod removals will be replaced with another mod and transphobia, homophobia and racism are still against reddit's code of conduct.
Spez has an ego problem and now he's in too deep.
He can't reverse course and admit defeat now, reddit will keep trying to strongarm mods because they have to win and show that they're in control and not their mods or their users. Ultimately they do have all the power and can ban everyone and remove all the mods and replace them, but it will damage the site. Spez doesn't care though, even if the entire site is burned to the ground, he'll have won. And he'll blame everyone else for his loss of IPO value.