2y ago

Reddit takes control of popular subreddit that protested API changes | Engadget

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2y ago

Reddit takes control of popular subreddit that protested API changes | Engadget

www.engadget.com /reddit-takes-control-of-popular-subreddit-that-protested-api-changes-182005439.html

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The Subreddit in question is r/malefashionadvice, for anyone who doesn’t want to click through
- They keep cracking down on subs like that. It's like they are scared of the reaction to taking over a major sub like videos.
  
  r/videos is back up though. The protest ended up being for nothing.
- Oh. Well, that's sad. I always thought stuff like that and r/malepolish were rather niche in comparison to like, r/gaming or r/AITA. Which is how I picture "popular." Here's to new blood, at any rate?
I don't think it's necessarily newsworthy as they've stated they would do that since the beginning of the uprising. They would be silly to sit on their thumbs while losing communities with millions of subs to protest. Open it, recruit a few people that could care less about 3rd party access and keep raking in that dough.
- While this is logical it completely destroys their image and the whole point of volunteers creating these subreddits/their now selectively chosen guidelines they follow only when it benefits them 😆
  To go into more detail on the point of their image being ruined they were all about community and what the community wanted/being more transparent then this shit happens 😂 joke of a company
  
  I completely agree with you but I think that the majority of Reddit users don't care and in 6 months time, this debacle will be completely forgotten by them and revenue will have completely recovered. I don't think I'm being cynical about it, I'm just going by past cases(FB, Twitter, etc.). The majority of users simply don't care.
- These articles are so helpful. Keep finding new Lemmy’s to join! Fuck Reddit.
1 mod, 5.4 million subscribers. Good fucking luck.
The only mod is asking people to submit comments with why they want to be a mod there including their experience. The answers are mostly hilarious and sarcastic. Some are just chat gpt responses. My favorite is this:
I'd love to be a mod of MFA, I consider myself as a connoisseur of high fashion as I only purchase top brands such as Kirkland, Sketchers, and Uggs. The last few years this sub has been plagued with low effort and low-class fashion sense, I believe I was put on this earth to turn this place around. I'd like to thank u/spez for getting rid of these scrubs who let these cretins roam free posting their terrible fits.
So happy to see that piece of shit website finally come to light. I realized years ago when low life moderators like TheYellowRose could be racist and run subs into the ground, banning people for getting tattoos that are "cultural appropriation" and muting them immediately.
Fuck spez, fuck TheYellowRose and all the loser shit humans that have nothing good going for them other than a mod title on a echo chamber.
I can see quality of posts getting worse and worse. Bots reposting, comments filled with low effort puns and one liners. I hardly ever got on Twitter and even less now but before I would see interesting tweets and comments but not anymore. I believe Reddit will be just the same.
- "comments filled with low effort puns and one liners"
  🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀 Always has been
We should start a sub-fedder called ISTA (Is Spez the Asshole). Of course, the answer would always be "yes."
- We need one for this image alone, it seemed to really get his knickers in a twist lol.

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