Their post announcing it, has comments disabled. I have been going on reddit looking for polls to vote “yes” to continue to participate in the blackout. This was kind of a bummer.
Edit: Looking at the mods most recent post, they’re still putting up a fight! And all new posts have 0 upvotes and I can’t see comments from RiF anyway. Can anyone else see anything from other reddit apps?
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June 30th is gonna be real interesting once the reality of the situation sets in. I encourage everyone here to be the change you want to see - don’t be afraid to participate here and create a new magazines for any niche interest you may have!
June 30th
I predict a huge drop once the aps stop working. Anyone using RiF and having to switch to the Reddit ap is going to have a hard time. It’s really bad. I just opened it up because I haven’t used it in a while… Boom. 2nd entry down. Big fat ad. Took up the whole page. Awful looking ad too.
Don’t forget about privacy. The official Reddit app is worse than Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat.
https://kbin.social/m/privacy@lemmy.ml/t/27058/Privacy-Evaluation-Reddit-App-is-worse-than-Facebook-Tiktok-Snapchat
I’ve never used the official app (used Relay on Android then more recently Apollo when I switched to iOS) and this is horrible.
I’m glad to see another Relay user! It’s underrated - it seems like a bunch of other apps get the spotlight, but Relay is still my favourite reddit app.
There is no way I’ll be using it. I tried it once when RiF was down. Uninstalled within a few minutes. I’m so used to RiF, when I’m playing a game on my pc, I would still prefer browsing reddit via RiF over the web browser.
Since it seems that Reddit admins will eventually just replace mods that refuse to open their subs back up and force them back open anyway, maybe actually opening subs back up would be best thing to do. NOT opening back up to business as usual though. r/videos, for example, could reopen and change their rules to allow only discussions about the best VHS camcorders from the 80s for recording videos, just not actual videos. r/Funny could change their rules and only allow text posts of knock-knock jokes.
This would ensure that those mods aren’t officially breaking any “rules” and the mods that are willing to actually stand up wont risk being ousted in favor of installed mods that are favorable to Reddit’s views. Reddit can have all their subs reopened, but they dont have to remotely resemble anything that they once were. I didn’t see them say anything about that. They could create a sticky that says something like, “Until Reddit reconsiders, this sub is now about X” (just more eloquently said). Make the content so dumb and ridiculous and maybe it’ll get more attention than continuing the blackouts (since they think it’s all going to fizzle out anyway), and keep the good mods in control. They said reopen, but they didnt say it had to be good. Malicious compliance.
Just thinking of ways to stay one step ahead, and it would be absolutely hilarious too. The great rebranding!
I love this! Agitation and frustration while following the terms and conditions and reddiquette
You’re thinking like a r/maliciouscompliance mod, and I love it!
Reminds me of stories I’ve heard of dictatorships where newspapers would replace censored articles with random things, so you’d see in the economy section a full page with a cookie recipe, stuff like that.
Is it funny yet?
Only if you like seeing the same content and comments regurgitated ad nauseam.
It was the first sub I ever blocked
I was on Reddit for 15 years and r/funny was never funny IMO. Reddit has always had pretty cringe attempts at culture/humour, the ‘narwhal bacons at midnight’ attempts at 4chan-lite culture was lame over a decade ago.
I honestly miss the “narwhal bacons at midnight” era. Things were simpler then.
It is what it is, and it was expected. Curious to see what happens around the 30th, all we can do right now is throw it a downvote. I’m finally finding my footing around kbin so there’s the silver lining.
As bummed as I am (10 years of lurking for cat pics and rocks is a long time), I’m really excited for what kbin and everything else has in store!
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Yeah, I might have to fast forward my full departure from Reddit if they’re going to be so agressively anti-consumer.
Yeah, I’m basically done. I log in every couple of days to just kind of keep tabs on things and then log back out - it’s gotten particularly unpleasant as it feels like the active users on bigger subs are now largely trollish and inflammatory. (Obviously running the risk of being trollish and inflammatory myself by saying that.) I’ve deleted Apollo from my phone, and am mostly focused on figuring our Kbin and the Fediverse.
There is something going on though, as posts show more comments than I’m seeing loading in Apollo, and also new posts/threads are locked for comments. Dissenting mods in the team who have yet to be removed?
Iirc, the entire team is dissenting. No one wanted to open back up, they were forced to by Reddit threatening their kneecaps.
Does anyone give a shit? Oh no the horror! The users who browse r/funny won’t emigrate to another platform.
The users who browse r/funny won’t even migrate to a subreddit that has funny content.
Yes, some people obviously give a shit or it wouldn’t have been posted here.
I think they don’t really understand what they wish for.
Personally I don’t care if the users of r/funny emigrate, but the largest sub in the blackout continuing to be down would continue to hurt Reddit, which I wanted to see.
Unfortunately reddit was never going to allow that. I’m sure spez genuinely thought that mods would throw their little fit and then it would be business as usual. Once he realized that this wasn’t a flash in the pan he was more than ready to put his boot on some necks. At this point the mods should just abandon their posts and move on to greener pastures. They don’t owe reddit anything much less a two week notice. It’s not like they’re on Reddit’s payroll or anything.
That’s not funny.
Has /r/funny ever been funny?
They were always a joke
Occasionally it gives me a sensible chuckle.
More subs are opening up now. It was nice when it lasted.
so basically reddit lost its useful side and is now a zombie?
Many subs go private again, seems like its reddit doing shit not the mods.
Signaling their desire for users to remain on the platform?
