Really impressed with the reporting from the verge on the Reddit protest and beyond.
I have been documenting some of the downfall myself-
https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2023/what-happened-to-reddit/
And let me just say- I don’t think the verge is missing many details at all. They have been ON TOP of this one.
I think The Verge has been getting better over time. Its kind of a breath of fresh air they seem to mostly stay politically neutral and they occasionally use tasteful euphemisms while reporting very accurately. I miss Paul and Dieter but the newer people are doing great work too.
Nice summary, I’ll link confused normie friends to it.
BTW, the header on your site is very large on Firefox mobile
Man, seeing people putting in effort from r/transcribersofreddit always reminded me about how many good people are in the world. It’s a shame they won’t be able to keep going, and even more of a shame that Reddit doesn’t care about blind people using their platform.
BTW, I heard that they are on its way to lemmy https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/Blind/comments/14eaf68/open_alpha_rblind_a_community_on_lemmy_brought_to/?sort=new
fucking hell. this sucks so fucking much. i hate these API changes so fucking much and there’s nothing i can do about it.
I love them, let reddit die, we should have never trusted a centralized dictatorship of a corporation with our forums.
free speech cannot be monetized by a corp and remain free
Even innocuous things like removing a dislike button are about removing the power of users to be negative, or share it. Can’t have human expression affecting corporate profits, after all.
We need a public square that prioritizes the users, not whoever can think of a shitty way to profit off them.
imma push back against that just a little bit. the shape of ui elements, what sort of interactions a platform allows a person to make, are kinda arbitrary, and putting deliberate thought into how they are laid out is important. in real life social interactions, there is functionally no analogue for a like or dislike button. there are fully cogent arguments for not including “the power of users to be negative” that don’t rely on suppression of speech or whatever, because that power is kinda exclusive to online platforms to begin with, and can allow larger groups to suppress the visibility of people they don’t like. “being negative” in a social context is a tricky idea to pin down, and there are a lot of real life social contexts where “being negative” would be seen as anti-social.
in any case, a downvote is sorta equivalent to shouting somebody down, or interrupting somebody who’s talking. depending on how its implemented, it might actually be a pretty potent tool as suppressing discussion. in certain contexts it might be useful, but any utility it provides is necessarily less than articulating why you disagree with somebody with a comment.
There is: delete everything on your account and then the account itself, then forget about them
The enshittification doubles by the day, good lord
