Reddit: open /r/pics or else. Mods: OK but you didn't say how

He will probably get wind of this and cover it on his show 🤣

Spez really should have read r/maliciouscompliance a bit before he bit off more than he could chew

Update on the vote results, for people who don't want to go there:

• Pro John Oliver: 61.7k

• Return to normal: -13.7k.

That's a classic reddit moment. There's such a good community on that website, it's tragic that reddit wants to use that against itself.

These kind of protest won't reduce the traffic on the platform though. They might even gain traction and increase it. If it's not linked to reduced ad revenue, I'm afraid it's counter-productive.

Only having pictures of John Oliver is definitely an improvement over normal r/pic.

This is actually the reason I'm here on Lemmy now. I love John Oliver but with all the other dark subreddits it was a bit much, and already had been looking into it. Led to Lemmy by too much sexy John Oliver.

archive.ph link for those who don't want to give reddit traffic.

This may be the best highlight of spez incompetence 🍿 For everyone talking smack on the moderators, this is exactly what they should be doing. Malicious compliance. Make it hard for Reddit to know what is going on. Love to see it.

Glorious :) I hope John Oliver picks this up in his show...

I've never been so happy to browse old.reddit /r/pics with an ad-blocker on.

Looks like a few other subs have joined. r/gifs and r/art did the same poll

Incredible move. But I doubt it'll last. Reddit is going to became 9gag and iFunny very soon. Rest in peace old reddit. It was fun while it lasted.

Has John Oliver already had an episode about spez's enshittifying of reddit? Because if not, I guess this is one way to make him at least mention it on Last Week Tonight. xD

fucking lol!!!! big ol thumb to the eye of the High SlimeLord himself, /u/spez

/r/gifs currently is following suit! If you still have a reddit account go vote ASAP! (Also unsubscribe from all your "business as usual" subs as possible, immediately, if you can't delete your account immediately for whatever reason)

Now this is the definition of malicious compliance!

This is brilliant! I had just took a look at /r/pics without logging in and can see its just now filled with John Oliver pics

oh my god i love this. it would be a shame if all other subs followed suit...

that is really fkn funny

Omg I really hope some of those pictures make it over here.

This is the spirit. Might as well have fun protesting if you're not giving up just yet.

Brilliant!

Definitely allowed. For now, anything that fits in the spirit of malicious compliance is fair game, it doesn't have to be text only too.

Glad you posted this - its the epitome of malicious compliance! And a fantastic form of protest too. With Reddit admins threatening to demote mods unless they re-open subreddits, this move takes away that ammo. Additionally, after the initial boost in activity due to novelty, the sub will get stale quickly and users will think of migrating to other platforms like lemmy or kbin. I'm all for it!

Edit: This is what I'm talking about. Here is one of those Reddit refugees now!

https://lemmy.world/comment/273363

Welcome, @exixx@lemmy.world!

Amazing work as always! Though I did have to check it out kind of defeating the purpose of the protest. I think the best way to achieve what they want is to just do a really shitty job in moderating. Let the entire site be over-run with scams / crypto bros / nazis.

I love this kind of justified pettiness. I am pretty petty myself, and its something that I guess is a supposed bad quality, but it can be so much fun.

Genius! I wish every other sub did this.

This is great. Tomorrow I'll see what I can do with stable diffusion.

The people has spoken. I love democracy

This is the way, we did it... - u/spez

I love democracy

/r/pics is now too sexy to browse.

Ahh brilliant.

Absolutely crushing the direction they chose.

Malicious compliance from both the mods and the users! I dust off my account to upvote it.

Sexy pics of John Oliver is better than 90% of the stuff posted there anyways. Glad to see them sticking it to Reddit, though.

Awesome!

r/InternetIsBeautiful

I don't think this is a good idea. The point of the blackout is to hit Reddit where it hurts, by driving traffic down. This prank (partially) reverses the work of the blackout, by getting people back to the pics subreddit to post and see (John Oliver) pics. It turns the blackout into a joke. And I think is a step towards the community just moving on from the blackout without it actually having the long term effects that were intended.

I'm all for malicious compliance, but I think this is the wrong flavor of it.

I hope all the subs have a variation on this.

Both are bad choices. When reddit says open /r/pics or else, you just delete /r/pics.

Reddit has NEVER been profitable. It's the classic:

1. Takes a bunch of venture capital funding
2. Builds a huge user base
3. Get bought
4. Parent company tries to figure out a way to make money off of you.
5. When they can't, they try to spin you off and IPO you.
6. You have your "oh shit" moment and realize you actually have to be profitable now.

This is the crap that caused the dot-com bubble in the late 90s.

Their current business model is unsustainable.

They're doing the API war out of sheer survival.

The sad part is, we all went along for the ride, using the service and filling it with useful information, never wondering if it was still going to be there a decade or two later.

Reddit wants to IPO. Having gone through the IPO process twice now with a company, I can tell you, the only thing that matters is money in the bank. The more money you have in the bank, the more you can charge for your IPO. When I worked at CompUSA back in the 90s, we didn't pay any of our creditors for something like 6 months before the IPO to swell the bank accounts. I remember the week before the IPO, we had almost nothing in the store, because we owed everyone money. 30 days after IPO, trucks came rolling in again with product.

Just did my part and posted a sexy John Oliver image

also the case on r/piracy

Dammit, I do NOT need any more temptations to go back to Reddit!! DAMN YOU SEXY JOHN OLIVER!!

As a fan of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, I love this idea.

God dammit I guess I'll make an exception for /r/pics.

Is Reddit having issues again right now? I can’t load the site properly in the last 5 mins

Well, the people have spoken 😂

This is just hilariously amazing

I can’t see what they did, my browser says it can’t establish connection to the server. Sounds like reddit admins took whatever it was down?

hahaha that's brilliant

Fair and honest poll. Good on them.

Aahahaha this is hilarious

Fantastic! Really good idea from the mod team.

I gotta go back to Reddit now. Haven’t been on /r/pics for years.

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Absolutely brilliant.

This is amazing!

Absolutely glorious! 😂😂

Haha, love it.

Truly brilliant. I give tons of credit.

so juicy, hats off to them.

Lol very nicely done!

“John Oliver Supports the Reddit Protests’ Use of his Image” - https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/reddit-protests-john-oliver-pics.html

Lol.. XD

r/debatereligion requires all posts to be in Latin, same spirit.

This is glorious 🤣

You have confirmed my words. Moderators consider themselves "nobility" who have the right to make decisions for the rest of the cattle. That was the point of the "protest.