Multiple subreddits are adopting alternative methods of protesting like publishing only one kind of post and private days.
  • UnhealthyPersona@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    This is actually hilarious and I love the creativity and malicious compliance here. It’s also a shame the admins response to this whole thing. They’re trying to claim that this whole thing is just a small group of moderates power tripping when in reality many of the subs held polls to go dark or continue protests. Before this all went down I saw a ton of people saying they should go dark indefinitely in many many subreddits.

    Huffman is full of lies and bullshit and that’s the real reason people have so much backlash at this point

    • Framecode@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Reddit comments seem full of Huffman bootlickers now who are claiming that there was no community support for protests and that the companies actions are fair and justified. I don’t know what the facts are but every single poll on every sub I seen on the topic was decisively in favour of action.

      I can’t understand why some people are so proudly apathetic, or reactionary when there’s some sort of dissent.

  • HisNoodlyServant@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I see some Youtube influencers saying the strike has failed. Looking at the front page it seems really screwed up still. Plus the website is going to be chaos if even a small percentage decide to troll.

    • Sparking@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I think people are saying anything short of all 12 million or whatever the number of users is switching over is a fail, but I don’t see it that way. The real failure is if reddit is put on a trajectory of degradation, and is never able to monetize. I feel like that is definitely happening.

  • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I keep seeing the quote “the API wasn’t designed to support these clients” and it always makes me wonder… What exactly does he think an API is FOR? As far as I’ve ever seen, APIs are specifically for outside connectivity. If you’re working with internal code then you simply make your own hooks as needed. Even an app could use hooks not available to the public. And if the API is NOT designed for this type of usage, then why would anyone want to PAY to use it? He keeps saying he wants to make reddit profitable, and yet he’s telling the world that the API isn’t fit for usage? None of it makes any sense.

    • Xanvial@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Their website and application also use API, not always the same as the one used by third party apps, but usually API on default is used internally, which is why there’s a distinction of Public API and Internal API