They're now openly threatening to take the privated subs away from the moderators:https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/14a5lz5/mod_code_of_conduct_rule_4_2_and_subs_taken/
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 15 June 2023 22:12 (eleven months ago) link
look, it's asking me to log in with Google
I think that's actually a Chrome thing, I found a way to kill it for every website in Chrome's settings.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 15 June 2023 22:13 (eleven months ago) link
Spez is going on the full offensive:https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackouthttps://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182457366/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-its-time-we-grow-up-and-behave-like-an-adult-company
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 15 June 2023 22:16 (eleven months ago) link
xp oh, i see. i guess i don't see that because i don't link my google account to chrome. i believe that's a chrome setting you can turn off.
bigger issue is that Reddit is just really bad for conversation, it's hard for any comment longer than a couple sentences to get more than a few upvotes, which means most people just won't see it, and even if someone replies, if you start replying to that you just wind up in a horrible nesting situation which quickly becomes utterly unreadable
I also hate recipe websites, but after all the faff there is usually a recipe at the end.
― ✖, Thursday, 15 June 2023 22:19 (eleven months ago) link
A two day blackout was never going to make them change their minds. Nothing short of permanently going dark was going to do that.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 15 June 2023 22:27 (eleven months ago) link
I was late to Reddit, only joined 4 years back bcs everyone'd abandoned FB and I hate twitter and wanted new grist.
TBH I have not experienced a jot of what the fuss is about. I dont use 3rd party OR the native app - I just browse Reddit in Chrome. Oh, the site determinedly tries to force me onto the app every time I refresh with a rude popup but I just doggedly dismiss it.
I've said it upthread but if you stick to yr own corners its a mostly pleasant experience. Gaming reddits are especially useful for detailled tips and charts and whatnot. My greatest disappointment is that /r/melbourne has decided to just close shop completely and move to Discord and I agree with ppl upthread - it is NOT a replacement, Discord is just a fucking roided up IRC client and I'm too old and busy to fuck with instachat. The whole point of forums is you can take your time to read and respond when you want.
I do miss Usenet, on that front.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 15 June 2023 22:32 (eleven months ago) link
the admin on one discord I’m a member of switched a few channels to a forum mode that’s kind of ok. good for persistent threads that don’t get lost in bot spam.
― beard papa, Thursday, 15 June 2023 23:30 (eleven months ago) link
good detail in this case study on trying to stay afloat in a sea of garbage
https://www.theverge.com/23753963/google-seo-shopify-small-business-ai
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 June 2023 13:28 (ten months ago) link
thanks for sharing that. i'm glad we are finally allowed to talk about this topic
― budo jeru, Friday, 16 June 2023 15:21 (ten months ago) link
Multi-xposts: people complaining about the terrible mobile web experience were probably referring to this recent experiment in deliberately breaking functionality.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:22 (ten months ago) link
If you didn't encounter it, count yourself lucky. It was way more obnoxious than the single pop-up when the page initially loads; it popped up again any time you tried to upvote, respond, or post a comment, and the pop-up actively prevented you from doing any of those things on the mobile website no matter how many times you told it to fuck off.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:25 (ten months ago) link
*upvote, respond, post a comment, expand a comment thread, "show more replies," or do basically anything other than look at the OP and the top two or three responses.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:27 (ten months ago) link
i thought Reddit CEO Steve Huffman came off bad in his interview with The Verge this new one with NBC News is disqualifyingReddit's unpopular changes were inspired by Elon Musk's layoffs & cost-cutting (like not paying bills) at Twitter. insane. https://t.co/xE4aqxVkl1 pic.twitter.com/opBU6gD2Bk— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) June 16, 2023
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 16 June 2023 20:27 (ten months ago) link
considering reddit's role in building up the cult of musk there would be a symmetry to the platform getting totally muskified
which would presumably mean the return of explicit nazism among other things
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Friday, 16 June 2023 20:36 (ten months ago) link
"So Twitter lost 70% of its revenue and I said HELL YEAH GIMME SOME OF THAT"
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 June 2023 20:38 (ten months ago) link
Had a feeling that this would turn out to be the case.
― peace, man, Monday, 19 June 2023 00:43 (ten months ago) link
Rough couple of weeks for these guys.
Reddit’s month may be going from bad to worse.Hackers from the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, are threatening to leak 80 gigabytes of confidential data from Reddit that they claim to have stolen during a February breach, according to a post from the group on the dark web, which was reviewed by CNN and an independent cybersecurity expert.In their post, the hackers claim they first demanded a $4.5 million payout “for the deletion of the data and our silence” in April. After receiving no response, the group said it followed up on Friday with an additional demand: Reddit should withdraw a controversial new pricing policy that has sparked a protest from some of the platform’s most influential users.
Hackers from the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, are threatening to leak 80 gigabytes of confidential data from Reddit that they claim to have stolen during a February breach, according to a post from the group on the dark web, which was reviewed by CNN and an independent cybersecurity expert.
In their post, the hackers claim they first demanded a $4.5 million payout “for the deletion of the data and our silence” in April. After receiving no response, the group said it followed up on Friday with an additional demand: Reddit should withdraw a controversial new pricing policy that has sparked a protest from some of the platform’s most influential users.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 18:40 (ten months ago) link
Some subs are now allowing NSFW posts in protest as Reddit has a policy of not allowing ads on NSFW subs. Check out /r/interestingasfuck as one of these.
Also to avoid the ugly desktop UI try old.reddit.com. As long as that's still around I'll still use Reddit at least on desktop. Reddit Enhancement Suite still works with it, fortunately.
Spez's recent comments are only going to embolden protests, trolling and backlash. I wouldn't be surprised if a clone successfully pops up by the end of the year and Reddit experiences the very kind of exodus that helped buoy their success back in 2005.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 19:17 (ten months ago) link
100% old Reddit is the way to go
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 04:13 (ten months ago) link
I dont mind the look of nu-reddit? But I guess its all I ever knew having come in late.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 06:07 (ten months ago) link
This chart from SubredditStats show the daily comments and posts for 5 major subreddits: r/news, r/facepalm, r/mademesmile, r/oddlysatisfying, r/mildlyinfuriating.And that’s how we've now ended up with a Reddit full of r/MadeMeSmile. And, just in case you're curious about what that looks like — four of the top five Reddit posts were reposted TikToks.
And that’s how we've now ended up with a Reddit full of r/MadeMeSmile. And, just in case you're curious about what that looks like — four of the top five Reddit posts were reposted TikToks.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe543d86b-53c1-417d-8b01-807f48a205c6_1317x273.png?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 19:08 (eight months ago) link
from https://www.garbageday.email/p/were-all-living-on-rmademesmiles
Too bad they didn't come to ilx!
― fajita seas, Thursday, 14 September 2023 00:45 (eight months ago) link
Turns out Reddit talks about us just as much as we talk about reddit
https://reddit.com/r/PeeKitchen/s/x6KPaHdnNZ
― H.P, Thursday, 14 September 2023 01:14 (eight months ago) link
Dare we ask why you were on a sub called PeeKitchen? :/
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 14 September 2023 03:25 (eight months ago) link
It would have to be a sub rly
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 14 September 2023 10:57 (eight months ago) link
lmao
https://i.imgur.com/XgAoN4h.png
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-soldier-indicted-attempting-pass-national-defense-information-peoples-republic-china
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 October 2023 22:36 (seven months ago) link
how to not get caught selling state secrets site:reddit.com
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 6 October 2023 23:24 (seven months ago) link
i just visited reddit for the first time since... idk, july?
why did i waste so much time there?
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Friday, 8 December 2023 02:41 (five months ago) link
Reddit reportedly signed a multi-million content licensing deal with an AI companyhttps://www.engadget.com/reddit-reportedly-signed-a-multi-million-content-licensing-deal-with-an-ai-company-124516009.html?guccounter=1
As the moderator of my town's subreddit, I suppose I should have some sort of doomed-to-fail opinion about data privacy. If it wasn't opvious already, only "AI" buzzword compliant b.s. is getting funding - all of it spent to monetize the shit out of everyone and everything.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 18 February 2024 08:25 (two months ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/f94j0y/oc_how_much_of_reddit_is_pornographic/
can't imagine how this could go wrong
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 18 February 2024 08:41 (two months ago) link
Reddit's IPO plans are the stupidest thing I've heard in a while
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 24 February 2024 18:30 (two months ago) link
(specifically this plan: https://apnews.com/article/google-reddit-ai-partnership-a7f131c7cb4225307134ef21d3c6a708) which IMO just means most people who care will stop using reddit
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 24 February 2024 18:31 (two months ago) link