Reddit CEO seeks to end site protest by allowing users to vote out moderators (www.nbcnews.com)
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said he wants to end user-led protest by instituting a rule that would allow users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest. NBC News' David Ingram shares the latest.
xuxebiko, One option to reduce interaction with spez-ruled reddit is to use https://reddit.adminforge.de.
Eg: to access r/modcoord, use https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/ModCoord
Any other ideas to deny that greedy little fascist pig boy his joy?
Reddit blaming website crashing on subreddits going private (www.theverge.com)
Reddit went through some issues for many on Monday, with the outage happening the same day as thousands of subreddits going dark to protest the site’s new API pricing terms....
There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data via John Naughton of The Guardian. (www.theguardian.com)
CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company
[CORRECTION] 7742 went dark out of the 8299 that committed. Interesting to note: 204 of the top 250 subreddits are dark (src: save3rdpartyapps.com). (reddark.untone.uk)
As of 12:56pm GMT (7:56am central time), 7742/8299 subreddits are no longer public...
Reddit Admins Deny Subreddit Users the Right to Vote for Further Blackouts (teddit.net)
Like many other subreddits, r/Finland is allowing its users to vote for whether or not they should a) reopen as normal, b) remain closed, or c) remain in protest mode....
(Mildly NSFW) Welp, I guess that's it. The single photo that got my ~10-year-old, 60k+ karma Reddit account "permanently suspended." (media.kbin.social)
I don't understand why people still want to use reddit instead of moving to Lemmy or Kbin
Most people aren’t even thinking of moving to reddit alternatives. Users have a lot of power in this situation. Just move your community to Lemmy or Kbin. It’s not that hard.
Reddit's response about the actions they took against the subreddits (note: r/mildly interesting DID NOT encourage nsfw content and their suspensions and removal have been revoked by a diff admin) (media.kbin.social)
From @christianselig@mastodon.social on the #RedditBlackout: (media.kbin.social)
Reddit Blackout: -19% Comments/day and -9% Posts/day during the 48h (lemmy.world)
Most data shown so far looked at the Peak per Minute numbers, so I wanted to see the day data instead....
spicy_biscuits, Sup y'all, newest arrival from the Reddit exodus here :D
Been lurking for a coupla days to check you guys out and get my bearings, now I'm here and I figured I'd say hi officially 😊
FreeBooteR69, @spicy_biscuits Greetings and salutations!
Reddit Stands By Controversial API Changes As Subreddit Protest Continues (www.forbes.com)
Reddit removed moderators behind the latest protests before restoring a few of them - restored by a different admin than the one that removed them... (www.theverge.com)
"Soon after we published this story, one of the r/MildlyInteresting moderators told The Verge that the entire mod team has now been reinstated — and by a different admin than the one that removed them. The mod’s account had received a 7-day suspension, but that has been reversed, too, they said. A Verge commenter who...
Just started the process of editing all of my Reddit comments (media.kbin.social)
kbin is growing on me. you guys are great! I'm staying here. never going back (media.kbin.social)
How it's going (media.kbin.social)
Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps (techcrunch.com)
"He added that he plans to make changes to moderator policies so users can vote them out. Currently, a higher-ranking moderator — or the company — can boot out moderators. Incidentally, a r/Apple moderator posted on Twitter (via 9to5Mac) that Reddit was threatening to remove moderators who are staging an indefinite...
Reddit threatens replacing moderators from privated subreddits, citing vandalism and squatting. (media.kbin.social)
My muscle memory hasn't caught up with the blackout yet. (media.kbin.social)
Mod of /r/tumblr removed during blackout (famichiki.jp)
Copy of text:...
-20% Reddit Activity – Analysis (OC) (kbin.social)
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview (www.theverge.com)
Anyone else read this? The arrogance is palpable.