Reddit Won’t Be the Same. Neither Will the Internet (www.wired.com)
Subreddits and third-party apps are going dark in response to Reddit’s proposed API changes. It’s the latest front in a labor battle between algorithms and the humans who feed them.
Reddit Community Values (www.reddit.com)
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Minecraft's devs exit subreddit after Reddit's ham-fisted crackdown on protest (www.pcgamer.com)
The Minecraft subreddit won't be a source for official Mojang communications going forward due to spez's idiocy and the API changes.
OP posts about the shity prices at DQ. DQ replies telling us we should be buying MORE to get a discount. Is this the future of reddit? (www.reddit.com)
Some subs go private for safety reasons, and reddit admins are compromising that. - post from r/ModSupport (reddit.adminforge.de)
View on Libreddit, an alternative private front-end to Reddit.
TechScape: After a brutal blackout, will Reddit ever be the same? (www.theguardian.com)
The social network is changing how it works with third parties – but some argue that a push for profit could bring a wave of misinformation
Even pseudonyms and throwaways delete their Reddit posts | First Monday (firstmonday.org)
Concerned researchers of user-generated content might want to avoid using, citing, or quoting sensitive content likely to be deleted by their authors, even when pseudonymous or using one-time “throwaway” accounts. At Reddit, how many authors actually delete their submissions, why, and are they concerned if their deletion end...
Reddit is Trying to Sow Division in Mod Teams. That's Because the Protest is Working (www.quippd.com)
It is the weekend, and no one likes working on the weekend… but Reddit seems to have no issue making their teams do it.
Reddit protesters bombard site with John Oliver pictures (www.bbc.com)
Some of the biggest subreddits are now only allowing posts featuring the British comedian.
Three of the biggest Reddit communities reopened in the funniest way possible (www.theverge.com)
“All posts must be images of John Oliver looking sexy.”
Spezless - A non profit reddit alternative. (www.spezless.com)
Let's beat Reddit
Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults Protesters, Whines About Not Making Enough Money From Reddit Users (www.techdirt.com)
Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. After his disastrous AMA helped inspire more subreddits to join a 48 hour blackout, and his dismissal of the protesting subred…
r/pics is now a sub for pics of John Oliver looking sexy. (circumstances.run)
Reddit has told r/pics mods to open the sub, and to be the sub their users want it to be. So they ran a user poll. By overwhelming mandate, r/pics is now a sub for pics of John Oliver looking sexy. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14b2a6q/poll_decide_on_the_future_of_rpics/
Breakingviews - Reddit’s golden geese foul up its IPO plans (www.reuters.com)
Reddit is used to brawls between its 57 million daily users. Now its keyboard warriors are directing their ire at its CEO, Steve Huffman. Thousands of moderators overseeing the site’s so-called subreddits are on strike. It’s a wrinkle in Reddit’s plan to go public, and a sign that plan is premature.
As the Reddit war rages on, community trust is the casualty (arstechnica.com)
Ars spoke with community mods about where Reddit goes from here.
Daring Fireball: Reddit’s Hoped-For IPO and Pipe Dream of Cashing in on OpenAI’s Hype (daringfireball.net)
Link to: https://sixcolors.com/link/2023/06/apollo-to-shut-down-developer-has-receipts/
Reddit goes dark (www.platformer.news)
As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site’s self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it
Reddark - A site listing subreddits are going dark or read-only on June 12th and after. (reddark.untone.uk)
As of this posting 639/5279 subreddits are currently dark. Many more to go dark on June 12th.
Watch subreddits going dark in real time (reddark.untone.uk)
An open source website to watch subreddits going dark
Reddit’s users and moderators are revolting against its CEO (www.theverge.com)
A lot of Reddit will go dark soon in protest of API changes