Reddit communities adopt alternative forms of protest as the company threats action on moderators
Reddit communities adopt alternative forms of protest as the company threats action on moderators
Excellent work
@itmightbethew These are all great but /r/interestingasfuck seems to have hit on something that could have a real impact: Reddit apparently can't sell advertising on NSFW subs. Imagine if /r/pics and /r/aww and other tip subs just opened themselves up to whatever, it would down Reddit in porn and destroy the site's reputation. I'm sure the admins would try to force them back to SFW, but it could be a powerful tactic.
What are the admins going to do? Moderate? If the moderators are approving NSFW posts, the sub is NSFW... Heck I'm not sure if they have to go that far. On r/cigars every single post is NSFW because cigars are Satan. Just do that to all the subs so every single post requires you to click to reveal the NSFW content. It'll be like NSFW roulette. Heads, it's a helpful guide to setting up a service on the cloud. Tails, it's goatse.
Throw in some random gore there for the nuclear option. NSFL is NSFW. And reddit never bothered to distinguish the two so let them down in yet more of their own poor decisions
Ridiculous, one day i logged into r/cigars, saw all the nsfw banners and had to do a double take on whether i was on the right sub
The tobacco pipe subs are NSFW as well. This was forced on them a few years ago by the admins as they seem to have a big thing against tobacco, but subs for substances much more harmful, like cocaine, are not NSFW.
Tails, it's goatse.
Fuck. I didn't have to be reminded of this. Lmao.
I miss 2002
You're dead right. If $$$ are Spez's priority then that's what we should target. A knock on effect is that it catches the attention of the casual redditor. I have a couple friends who read reddit but were clueless on these issues. Until the NSFW content. One DM'd me tonight
""I was on lunch, and I was like "WTF happened to my reddit feed??""
so that's working
That NSFW post on r/interestingasfuck has reached r/all lmfao
I think they just banned the mod from r/celebrity for turning the sub NSFW
Big mistake to make on the Internet is to call the Internet’s bluff if you’re at the centre of a controversy. It’s not unlike the Streisand Effect.
You just know that John Oliver is sitting at home right now laughing his ass off at the memes, and then screaming into a pillow because he can’t talk about it anywhere due to the writer’s strike.
r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.
Made my day.
I'm visiting till my app stops working and that has given me a real chuckle!
"r/Horny is now a “Christian Minecraft server.”
That shit is genius. Not a fan of all this mess. But it has led to new and cool places while creating some funny as hell content with the fallout.
Very true, I'm seeing goats right now and it's absolutely amazing
Holy shit that's hilarious lmao
A Red Bull Formula 1 team themed Minecraft server?
(Christian Horner is the team principal for Red Bull Racing. And is also married to Geri "Ginger Spice" Halliwell).
r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.
I love it
Well well well, what a nice vacuum cleaner!
On /r/interestingasfuck I just saw a woman with a speculum holding her ass open as someone else poured milk and cereal into it. Yes they ate it.
So that's my day so far
Upvoted even though I hate this comment
Wow that's a classic! I haven't seen that video in the wild since the early internet!
There might be something wrong with me for that to be nostalgic...
Might be?
I feel you. Someone in another comment on here mentioned something along the lines of how clicking through a post on Reddit marked NSFW as part of the protest could be anything, like a wonderful guide to self hosting, ooorr it could be goatse...and I felt nostalgic reading that and remembering the days when that was a lot more common.
Then I felt it again reading the description of that video. So I'm right there with ya, fellow 'damaged by the wild west internet days of old' weirdo. ;)
Is that what "2 girls 1 cup" was?
I'm actually good at not going and looking at these things, so I end up out of the loop. Which decision I am 99.9% happy with lol. But a text description would not be amiss.
You know that now everyone is asking the link for a friend .
I know that this probably won't work as stubbornly idiotic as Huffman seems to be doubling down but god isn't that amazing.
What's fascinating is the sudden increase of people whining about this. If this kind of stuff bothers them imagine how bad it is when these moderators leave completely? I know a subreddit based on interesting things have completely lowered their standards as a protest and it shows.
My friend is no longer using reddit because his front page is mostly porn now (and the default app sucks at hiding it). So I got him to switch to lemmy :)
But if anything, this is an even better protest. Much more effective and hard to deal with
Yep! Its technically reopening and it makes the spez simps mad. Honestly reddit deserves the worst.
I've also had friends say reddit is too toxic now. Well, yeah. Mods aren't modding and the nicer people are over here. It'll be interesting to see how much they recover. Clearly they knew this would cost them with their users, but hopefully it's substantially more than they expected.
If you want to see people really whine, just go on r/JustUnsubbed, you'll see a bunch of people moaning and groaning about this
There’s some real r/MaliciousCompliance stuff going on and I love it.
This has very strong "I'm not touching you!" energy and I'm all about it.
Reminds me of the Sherlock Holmes movie
W: "Remove that stick from my face"
SH: "It's not in your face; it's in my hand"
W: "Okay, remove what's in your hand from my face"
"Why do you keep hitting yourself? Stop hitting yourself!"
Haven't been back to reddit since i joined lemmy. I like it here.
As soon as the initial internal notes were made public I logged out and deleted the app.
I'm not going so far as to delete all of my posts and comments, but I won't be using reddit moving forward.
Have popped into ModCoord a couple of times to check on the state of things... but haven't been in any of my usual subs.
Need to start subscribing to specific communities here soon but for now enjoying the mix that is all/(active|hot) 😀
Yeah, same. I like that it's a smaller, newer community. Not yet overrun with trolls and bots.
Yup, I've checked it out anonymously with AdBlock a few times and I click links to posts from mods and things like that but I deleted the app (Boost for Reddit) from my phone and I'm not installing the first party one
The company even sent messages to moderators saying that they will be removed if they all continue to particulate in the blackout.
that typo, LOL.
ngl, all this makes me want to go back to reddit
It's funny for about 10 minutes, then you realize it's all John Oliver posts, and it might as well be a private sun again. It's working. Lots of my subs are also paralyzed by reddit news and spez being an asshole, so there's not top much going on for my subs, save for a select few, like some gardening ones. Haven't found a replacement yet for those :(
I've been going over and upvoting all this shit I can before my Joey app stops working. I am easily amused, r/Well that sucks has had me laughing every time it pops up.
My favourite one is anime_titties has a poll about whether to continue with their world political topics or change to a highly moderated pic forum of anime boobs.
This stuff is funny, but that's the problem, Redditors love funny events like The Snap, and they love drama and controversy
You can see it's not hurting Reddit at all maybe even helping them
https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/
The real solution is to share links to Lemmy communities as replacements and just leave Reddit, turn off whatever auto moderation tools they have and just let the place burn, or maybe even worse be overly strict on moderation lol
They permanently blocked me for sharing lemmy links before blackout. One more reason to do it, link aggregator not allowing links!
Gotta give it to Redditors, they can be quite creative when it's time to throw shit on the fan.
Well done. Like true reddit. Lemmy is great and I don't look at Reddit anymore.
Absolutely amazing, what other subreddits are thinking to follow suite?
Glorious.
r/formula1 is reopening as NSFW to "comply to the fullest extent of our abilities with these changes":
That's absolutely fantastic lmao
Brilliant! Simply brilliant!
One of the legal advice subs -- I can't remember which -- was going forward requiring post approval from mods because they value community safety. But as they are unpaid volunteers they estimate it could take up to 14 days for post approval.
This is how a bureaucrat protests. Elegantly inefficient.
I think that was /r/scams. Their post was fantastic
Thank you for the rundown! It almost makes me want to go back and take a look at the shit show... But tis a silly place and I shant be going back.
Trust me, the shit show is glorious. I even instinctively upvoted a couple of medieval memes but quickly realized what I was doing and closed the tab.
THAT'S what a rundown is!
I did, it was glorious!
fucking lmao.
/r/Piracy also celebrated the fact that reddit officially endorsed them.
/r/woodworking is debating going back to normal, or posting pictures of Norm Abrams and Nick Offerman. I'll let you guess which one is winning.
That should be a nice complement to r/onlyfans, which has previously refocused to pictures of fans (though it's still private)
...I'm afraid to ask what "nofans" used to be. I hadn't heard of it before.
It is like watching a slow train wreck. You know you should just look away, but you just cannot.
Shitposting is funny because the auto mod they are using to remove posts cites removing the post in order to save bandwidth for Reddit. The auto mod post is much longer than post being removed and contains K's. I found it funny anyway.
Absolutely fucking glorious!
It makes me so happy seeing reddit come together against this bullshit
I'd like to know more about the "determining close days" for some subreddits. Won't they just open them back up?
I love to see the malicious compliance.
Some subs like r/fuckcars will be doing “touch grass Tuesday”, where the sub will be restricted every Tuesday.
I think r/HarryPotter is still polling the same idea. Which gets me wonder what if most of the popular subs decided to do this.
I need this, faith in humanity has been at a low ebb
What a bowl of fresh air.
Absolutely amazing, what other subreddits are thinking to follow suite?
Bread stapled to trees is only going to allow four subjects moving forward on certain weeks, one of which is John Oliver, another being literal garbage, lol.