#reddit strike

[zoethehead]

for the redditors coming here, this is how we spread news of important events in the world, with a Destiel meme

#info #reddit strike #reddit blackout #destiel

[be-right-back-9]

#reddit blackout #reddit refugee #reddit #reddit strike #destiel #gonna be honest i still dont understand how the hashtags work like do I just put anything that it relates to? What do the numbers mean #tomato soup

[netscapenavigator-official]

The funniest parts about Tumblr, Reddit, and Twitter all collapsing is they all had to undo ONE decision, and it would've prevented it all.

If Tumblr had gone back, or even just lessened, its porn ban. It could still be in the top 10 sites, worldwide.

If Reddit had reversed its API decision, it wouldn't be struggling with a volatile, unsellable user base.

If Twitter had just not changed ANYTHING. If Musk had just LEFT THE SITE ALONE, it would've begun pulling a profit within a few years, and would've been bringing in enough revenue to keep the site alive until then.

But that didn't happen. These sites were making power hungry moves and chasing the money of advertisers to make up for it. However, each one of them forgot one very important thing:

A sanitized, unpopular website upsets it previous users. Upset users flee a site, leaving angry, volatile individuals behind. Angry, volatile users aren't marketable. Without marketable users, the site has no marketable value. And without marketable value, no advertisers are gonna give you money.

#7/2/23 #rambles #tumblr #twitter #reddit #twitter takeover #twitter collapse #elon musk #musk #fuck elon musk #reddit blackout #reddit strike #reddit protest #reddit moderator strike #moderator strike #fuck u/spez #u/spez #money #late stage capitalism #web 2.0 #social media #ad #ads #advertisments #advertisers

[dandylion-s]

Tips for redditors coming to this site:

Please be nice to me i am very scared all the time

#reddit strike #reddit shutdown #tumblr tips from deets! #reddit blackout

[theradicalscholar]

Amidst the aftermath of the Reddit blackout, Redditors step into the outside realm, reconnecting with the tangible world they had long set aside.

#reddit blackout #reddit refugee #196 #reddit #welcome to tumblr #reddit strike #reddit boycott

[doctorofrestoration]

Am I doing the Tumblr news meme correctly? Ah well. I'll know it's right if I people reblog it.

#reddit #reddit blackout #reddit refugee #reddit pinkertons #reddit strike #am i doing tumblr right #is this how you tumblr?

[nyxelestia]

Latest updates on Reddit fuckery. The above announcement post is here. (Transcripts in image alt texts.)

For anyone who is not familiar with Reddit:

Reddit Gold was a way for Redditors to "reward" other users for a neat post or comment. The one giving it would have to pay for it, and it came with a month's worth of premium membership for the recipient, and their post or comment would have a little badge on it showing the gold (aka showing that someone liked the comment so much they were willing to pay Reddit money just to show it). This was a very popular feature, and one people were happy to shell out actual money for.

Reddit "Silver" started out as a joke in some communities for giving awards when you are too broke to afford the real Gold. Reddit turned it into an actual award; Redditors still had to pay to gift it, but it was cheaper than gold and did not come with the Premium membership. This was met with a lukewarm reception.

Reddit started rolling out more and more awards, which also did not give the recipient any Premium time but did put badges next to their post or comment - a different one for each award, of which there were dozens. This was increasingly unpopular (though note that "unpopular" does not mean "unused"; people were using it).

Today, rather than just rolling back the less popular versions of this feature that Redditors have been happily paying for, Reddit decided to get rid of the feature altogether - with no replacement ready, and no refunds for what people have already paid for.

#reddit #reddit migration #reddit exodus #reddit drama #reddit strike

[logorrhea5mip]

I love how i moved here from reddit like 40 days ago.

Basically I'm one of the birds that ominously fly towards the mountains in the begging of an apocalypse movie.

#196 #Reddit #Tumblr #not a reblog #Ramblings #I do love it here #Tumblr immigrants #r196 #Reddit strike #R/CuratedTumblr #CuratedTumblr is a gateway drug to proper tumblring

[hashtagloveloses]

in an insane turn of events, as reddit locks down in protest, amazon cloud web services, the infrastructure that a LOT of the internet runs on which makes up a sizable portion of amazon's monopoly, is also down right now, meaning this website being one of the few left operational is truly fucking crazy

#reddit strike #aws down #original post

[hyperdemona]

Ladies, I'm pleased to announce that Reddit and it's unwashed horde of rapist dog walking MTF mods and admins are finally getting what was coming to them for banning women's and lesbian subs and our free speech, and for gaslighting women and actively hosting innumerable rape and misogynist subreddits. Like to charge, reblog to cast, and may all Praise Be to the Goddess. 😊😘

#Reddit #John Oliver #antiwork #reddit strike

[netscapenavigator-official]

I seriously wanna know how Reddit can genuinely claim they saw no significant drop in revenue during the blackout. There was a period of MULTIPLE HOURS where the Home Page didn't even know how to function without the top subreddits active, and it just showed a blank error page. You're telling me that Reddit somehow made the exact same amount of money showing zero ads and content for HOURS as it did while functioning normally? Absolute horseshit. That CEO is lying through his teeth, and I hope when they take Reddit public it highlights every financial fault in such boldness that it kills the platform entirely.

#rambles #rant #reddit #reddit blackout #reddit protest #protest #ceo #lying #lies #strike #reddit strike #moderator strike #reddit moderator strike

[braaaaain]

People are talking about how different our response to Reddit refugees is to our response to Twitter refugees and I can think of five reasons:

Reddit wasn't as foreign to us. It had actual uses, forcing us to use it and making us feel the loss just a little. Redditors felt more like comrades. Meanwhile, Twitter had no use except as an algorithm fueled hot take generator.

Some (justified) resentment: most Twitter refugees were former Tumblr users that had spent the past few years insisting Tumblr was dead while getting half their material from us.

Twitter was a lot bigger and a deluge of Twitter users threatened to dilute the culture and allow staff to enshitify this place the way they want to.

Speaking of comrades this was essentially the result of a strike and we love that shit.

Despite the toxic culture on Reddit, these guys were immediately polite about it. They understood that internet spaces have cultures and they adapted really fast, plus they already knew they had to distinguish themselves from bots. They even expressed relief at the lack of hostility here.

In short, these guys felt like they would stand with us in keeping this place the anti social media app, while Twitter users were sewer dwelling chuds who were fine with swimming in the radioactive algorithm sewer.

Redditors, as long as you're hostile to mandatory algorithms, data mining, and influencers, you'll have a good time here.

#Reddit #Reddit strike

[dandylion-s]

I think one of the big problems with people potentially leaving reddit is that there is no place to dog on the truly insane sociopaths that make AITA posts with innocuous titles

#yall know what im talking abt #like itll be titled should i apologise to my gf for cleaning a #and the post will be abt him throwing out her dead mom's letters to her or something #no place left for this particular strain of crazy to get the judgement they rightfully deserve #reddit strike #reddit blackout #reddit #196

[chasinightmares]

to all the reddit strikers that might see this post,

I didn’t believe in you being able to upkeep the protest, but, based on what I’m somewhat hearing from others, you’re doing so well. truly, it makes me think humanity still has a chance. albeit a very small one considering a lot of knowledge will be lost in the purge, but still

keep going. stand your ground. I love you

#reddit #reddit blackout #reddit strike #fuck spez #fuck capitalism

[doctorofrestoration]

If the Posts I'm seeing are true, and reddit as actually having their admins reopen the protesting subreddits and removing the mods for puppets....

Us refugees might end up being permanent residents of this "hell site"

#reddit strike #reddit refugee #reddit pinkertons #reddit blackout

[free-my-boy-grumbot]

where are all these people making 3 paragraph text posts about the Current News. what happened to the submarine. what’s going on with reddit. where are those gay guys from supernatural. what’s going on.

#cameron monologues #reddit strike #reddit #submarine #titanic #???? i think