Hi Snoos,
Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.
We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.
There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.
While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.
I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.
Again, we’ll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.
I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.
Both pretending to give a shit about his employees and painting protesters as potentially violent people.
Fuck you spez, the only person deserving of a gut punch is you not your employees.
“I am okay with violence, as long as it’s my side that’s doing it. That’s because our cause is just.”
If everyone followed this philosophy, the world would be a much worse place. You can’t be this way and be on the right side of history. If you have 100 great points, this undermines all of them.
It’s also silly to see someone complaining about being portrayed as violent and then immediately going into talking about violence.
The right thing to do would be for the subreddits that went dark to go permanently private on June 30th. The two day protest can be framed as a warning.
If this doesn’t happen there will not be any changes. The Reddit leadership treated the protest as simply something they would need to “get through” before things return to normal.
The modcoord sub that organised the initial blackout are encouraging subs to remain dark in response to this. It seems like a lot of subs are going to remain dark.
If a sub doesn’t want to go dark (stopdrinking was given as a community support example), then a touch-grass-tuesday is recommended to close the sub every Tuesday as an ongoing reminder.
Seems like Reddit has taken the protest as “a bit of noise, but business as usual soon”. So, time to kick it up a notch
Opened infinity and went to r/modcoord to find info on how they coordinate with each other but I found nothing
Edit: bruh, I’m blind, I missed this info when checking their subreddit description:
Edit2: I can’t send screenshot so there’s text version:
Discord - you can request access by sending us a modmail from your own subreddit’s modmail (for mods of subreddits participating in the blackout)
That’s basically every major corporate strategy this day and age – wait 6 months everyone will forget. They keep seeing it happen again and again, so of course they’re getting bolder and bolder. We the public need to quit being pushovers. Where we spend our time energy and money is a far more valuable vote than the one at the ballot box. We will die from our own conveniences.
I don’t know if Lemmy is the solution, but it certainly feels like the right direction to me.
This guy is an asshole, but unfortunately he is right. A 48 hour “protest” isn’t going to solve anything, either go indefinite or don’t bother. If almost everyone comes back it just means they won. This could the time for change, but it probably won’t be.
It did have an effect. Remember the context: Reddit is trying to look 📈 big and growing now, because they will start selling Reddit shares. If no visible protest, buyers would just see the reality that Spez is showing them like “ad revenue remains stable” and “app adoption is skyrocketing!”
Even if temporary, that amount of outage made the news, which means potential buyers get to see a bit of dirty underwear sticking out of Spez’s drawer. Business Insider reports on “Reddit’s falling IPO valuation” already.
It is costing them, which may cause change. Clearly too little too late for too many people, but hey at least the assholes lost money.
The good part here is that they’re losing money, but I doubt it’ll be enough for anything more than a sop. Spez the asshole seems pretty firm on his decisions, and people are eventually going to come back. Like Louis Rossman said, this is just showing them is that no matter how bad they treat their users, they’ll always be back in 2 days max, and that’s what counts in the end
I also think it had an effect but won’t be immediately visible. Just look at Lemmy. It grew exponentially. There’s people here now. And reddit has reached tipping point, so from now on it will slowly go downhill, just like it happened with so many other behemoth platforms. It doesn’t happen overnight. It’s just that slowly but surely creators will keep migrating and that’s all that matters
I agree, but I don’t think you need to go whole hog on the first round. Makes you seem more amicable to go dark for two days then see what the company does.
As we can see they apparently need to ramp it up to get it into their heads that people are not happy
Spez (Verb): to ruin something out of a combination of ignorance and malice
“I’m going to completely spez this place.”
I had forgotten how nauseating corporate doublespeak can be. This can’t be for employees. I cannot fathom how any competent professional would actually this seriously.
Even internal meetings at corps have this shit. We were recently told that half our work force feels stressed so we should focus on planning better so we could get more done… But wrapped in doublespeak.
