I hope this protest has a positive effect, but cynically I'm pretty sure it's going to make a small splash, and then fizzle. Any popular subs that go dark too long well get sudo'd back online I'm sure.
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2023
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This is why the protest is limited to 48 hours at first, because that's the known "safe" duration. See what happened to r/news a couple years ago.
The two-day blackout isn't the goal, and it isn't the end. Should things reach the 14th with no sign of Reddit choosing to fix what they've broken, we'll use the community and buzz we've built between then and now as a tool for further action.
Yeah, the strategy makes sense, I wish them well, I'm not just optimistic about the results.
Neither am I. I think they are going about it the right way. I just think Reddit is intent on Digg-ing themselves a grave and I don't even think they understand the consequences of their actions. I'm sure they did some math on losing 3rd party app users, but I think they severely miscalculated on the moderator and accessibility fronts.
In the U.S., Section 504 requires web services to provide "individuals with disabilities an equal opportunity to participate." For now, Reddit has complied with that because third party applications using the free API constitute an equal opportunity (actually, it's a better opportunity - even better). However Reddit's website and first-party application do not work with screen readers. If Reddit goes through with this, I fully expect them to be sued. I wouldn't be too surprised if they weren't even aware of this, because the relevant communities have quietly used third-party access since ever.
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Yup, old time reddit user here. Sad to see this, but excited to see where the change will lead.
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Reddit has shown their cards and in my opinion even if they walk back these changes the writing has been on the wall for a while that they are looking to change the site in ways that people who prefer old Reddit will likely not prefer. It would be better to move on
Yeah, I already pulled the trigger on deleting my account. I've no interest in staying there with what they're doing, and like you said, even if they roll back on it I'm done. They've shown time and again they give zero shits about the user base, and I for one am sick of it.
The circus is burning, as its owners tried to heat it up. Let us enjoy watching the flames from a safe distance.
I'm still a bit sad about Reddit's seemingly approaching ending. I never cared about Twitter so moving to Mastodon was a snap, but Reddit has had loads of amazing content posted and I've enjoyed it for 15+ years. I love the Fediverse, and Lemmy is great, but it may take some time before these platforms and communities can replace Reddit for me.
Yeah. As much as I want to abandon Reddit completely if they go through with this, I'll probably be forced to use new reddit and the official app because most communities probably wont migrate at all. There are many niche communities that I'm subscribed to, like related to a specific anime/LN series that's not too big.
Just for curiosity: which is the anime/light novel series?
On-topic: I hope that other communities start migrating, once Reddit's downwards spiral becomes too hard to ignore. I'm also considering to set up a few weaboo communities and one for conlangs, once I find a good instance for that. (lemmy.ml is already rather overburdened; perhaps someone could set up an instance for this sort of geeky stuff?)
There are many but a few that come to mind that I've been browsing a lot recently are:
- r/KumoDesu : The final volume (volume 16) is coming out on the 20th and I've started rereading the series. I actually finished reading the WN a couple of days ago (I love this series so much asdfaklmsv).
- r/IsekaiOjisan : Just plain fun
- r/Mashle : Not small but still one of my favourites. I don't watch shonen a lot but this is a great manga.
I've considered hosting a couple of fediverse (and nextcloud) servers before but servers are expensive 😞
I mainly want an exact alternative to r/Anime and r/Manga for the episode discussions and I also want r/WritingPrompts and r/Animemes because those are my gotos to kill time.
I've been meaning to check out Kumo for a while. I'm a big fan of Honzuki no Gekokujou and apparently there's a lot of overlap in the fan base.
I watched a little over one season of Honzuki no Gekokujou and I didn't find too interesting tbh (I only watched that many episodes because I was really bored at the time). It just felt like a "base building game" (I can't think of any other analogy for some reason). Is there something I'm missing, like the anime not adapting the source material well? Because I see a lot of people who like but I can't seem to understand why. To be clear, I don't think it's that bad but it seems more popular than it should be.
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