Reddit protest updates: news on the apps shutting down and Reddit’s fights with mods
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Reddit communities went dark to protest recent changes.

Here’s the list of highlights from the article, as it’s a good TL;DR:

  • The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark
  • How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
  • Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen
  • Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
  • Why disabled users joined the Reddit blackout
  • Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted
  • A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working
    • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlOPM
      1·
      1 year ago

      Pretty much, but it’s useful to have such a summary to refer to. Specially in the future, as it’ll be harder and harder over time to remember what was going on in Reddit, and why so many people left it. And one of my objectives with this comm is to document what happened with Reddit, it would be great if we did the same when Digg went downhill.

      • BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’ll tell you what happened with Digg:

        1. Kevin Rose swears he’ll listen to the community and not introduce a major overhaul which will bring several unpopular changes
        2. a month or so passes and Digg leadership thinks everyone is stupid and forgot
        3. Digg 4 launches and literally everyone leaves for reddit over the next couple of weeks.
        4. Fark and Slashdot collectively die laughing, then of being old curmudgeons

        there, now you’re all caught up

        • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlOPM
          1·
          1 year ago

          there, now you’re all caught up

          Note how your quick summary skips a lot of information and views, that give people context on what happened. For example:

          • how power users were gaming the system, and that the userbase was already pissed, even before Digg v4;
          • what’s wrong with Digg v4, and why users hated it so much;
          • the pressures that caused v4 on first place;
          • the state of Reddit (and Twitter, and Facebook) when the Digg exodus happened;
          • how people organised that mass exodus off the platform;
          • how the news back then covered Digg’s downfall;
          • who’s Kevin Rose again? (I bet that plenty people don’t even know who Kevin Rose is, let alone his role on Digg.) etc.

          And yet it’s unreasonable to expect anyone to remember everything about the events. And we [people in general] shouldn’t even trust anyone in specific to begin with, because everyone [including you and me] is a bit biased and will cherry-pick a few details and ignore others. For that we’d need a central repository documenting the downfall of Digg, preferably from multiple users’ PoVs. I think that this is important, because better knowledge of the past allows us to guide better our future actions.

          Same deal here with Reddit.

        • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          1 year ago

          Fark and Slashdot were always kinda centrally controlled. During the heyday of the internet frontier they were fresh and hilarious, but they never attracted younger people because it was just the same jokes over and over. And without building younger communities they died of irrelevance.