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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Rest of the Week(?) (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, its aftermath, and what's happening going forward, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! thanks! we'll see if we need to cycle the thread again before the end of this week, but i don't know that we'll need to

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I think a lot is riding on Reddit's promised rollout of new mod tools. If the new mod tools aren't available before the 1st, or if they're woefully inadequate compared to those of third party apps, a lot of mods are going to be upset. Particularly those moderating large subs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

German it magazine iX has an interview with the mods of r/de. I don't know if this was mentioned here before...

Interview (German)

Short summary: the mods of the large German communities see a huge issue with reddit not recognizing content creators and mods work and there seems to be growing support for an ongoing blackout or so they say.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Mother Jones on Reddit and the broader trend of enshittification

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/15/reddit-threatens-to-remove-subreddit-moderators/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/14a5lz5/mod_code_of_conduct_rule_4_2_and_subs_taken/jo9wdol/

Link to the thread being talked about. Definitely looks like a open up your subreddits or else.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I continue to be mystified at this. I couldn't make this many wrong decisions if I tried.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/16/23763538/reddit-blackout-api-protest-mod-replacement-threat

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data

Operators broke into Reddit on February 5, 2023, and took 80 gigabytes (zipped) of data. Reddit was emailed twice by operators, once on April 13 and one again on June 16.

There was no attempt to find out what we took.

In our last email to them, we stated that we wanted $4.5 million in exchange for the deletion of the data and our silence. As we also stated, if we had to make this public, then we now demand that they also withdraw their API pricing changes along with our money or we will leak it.

We expect to leak the data.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The Verge: Some subreddits are now filled with porn to protest Reddit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Guardian article on the reddit drama: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/17/there-is-no-moral-high-ground-for-reddit-as-it-seeks-to-capitalise-on-user-data?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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