- cross-posted to:
- feddit_nl@feddit.nl
- snoocalypse@lemmy.ml
- technews@radiation.party
“All posts must be images of John Oliver looking sexy.”
- crowsby ( @crowsby@kbin.social ) 46•1 year ago
Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.
ok
r/pics: return to normal, -2,329 votes; “only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy,” 37,331 votes.
r/gifs: return to normal, -1,851 votes; only feature GIFs of John Oliver, 13,696 votes.Having trouble reconciling why these polls are always overwhelmingly in favor of continuing protests when users are apparently opposed to them. Craziest thing.
As I write this, the top post in the “hot” tab on r/pics is a picture of Oliver flipping the double bird next to an image of Huffman. On r/gifs, it’s a GIF of Oliver hitting a table and saying “go fuck yourself” next to an image of the Reddit logo.
- spriteblood ( @spriteblood@kbin.social ) 43•1 year ago
As I write this, John Oliver’s Twitter is posting a bunch of pics of himself telling /r/pics to “have at it”
https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120
- IncognitoWolf ( @IncognitoWolf@kbin.social ) 15•1 year ago
we can rest assured that John Oliver is collecting all the sexy pics people photoshop/post and is going to put together a Last Week Tonight episode on this, once the strike is over.
- thatdukeluke ( @thatdukeluke@kbin.social ) 9•1 year ago
John Oliver always likes to stick it to the big guy in the fight which I find hilarious, I wish Last Week Tonight was on the air so we could hear his takes.
- v13 ( @v13@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
I love this! I have a tiny sub but I’m doing this!!!
- Bipta ( @Bipta@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
I closed my tiny subs. Reddit won’t be able to find mods for them all.
- v13 ( @v13@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
I had closed mine too, but the Oliver thing seems too good to pass up. Once a day, every day I will post John Oliver pic. Just to be snotty.
- ono ( @ono@lemmy.ca ) 7•1 year ago
Nitter link, for those who would rather avoid Twitter:
- tal ( @tal@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Hmm. Probably could benefit from a bot to auto-post those in response to Twitter links. Human time being valuable and all that.
- Sebastrion ( @Sebastrion@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
People could use this Browser addon https://libredirect.github.io/ it also works on mobile if you use firefox/fennec
- bamboo ( @bamboo@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Until the API changes at the end of the month.
- tal ( @tal@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Oh, no, I mean a bot here in the Fediverse, rather than on Reddit.
- flybynightpotato ( @flybynightpotato@kbin.social ) 40•1 year ago
Sometimes I feel like the internet is a huge mistake, but then I see stuff like this and am just all, “bravo, you crazy assholes,” in the proudest, most pleased, way possible.
- el-sapo ( @el-sapo@kbin.social ) 13•1 year ago
Yeah, in times like this I feel like the old wacky internet is still kicking and it fills me with joy
- metaStatic ( @metaStatic@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
we did it
redditkbin - explodingkitchen ( @explodingkitchen@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
“And the Lord God said, ‘Let there be internet,’ and there was pwnage. And it was good.”
- CuriousALot ( @CuriousALot@kbin.social ) 21•1 year ago
The article mentions r/pics and r/gifs. For what I know r/art is also doing this.
- metaStatic ( @metaStatic@kbin.social ) 14•1 year ago
John Oliver looking sexy
because it’s impossible to find anything else
I feel like it would have been funnier to open in text only mode too
- rokejulianlockhart ( @rokejulianlockhart@kbin.social ) 11•1 year ago
That would have been perfect. Only ASCII art of sexy John Oliver.
- tal ( @tal@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
As far as I know, /r/pics may not take text, but has no objection to pictures of text.
$ width=300; curl -o joliver.jpg 'https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_1687,w_3000,x_0,y_0/dpr_1.5/c_limit,w_3000/fl_lossy,q_auto/v1557998763/190507-stern-oliver-tease_1_fxn7b9' && img2txt -W $width -f ansi joliver.jpg >joliver.txt && ansilove -i -c $(($width + 1)) joliver.txt -o joliver.png
- Katharta ( @Katharta@kbin.social ) 12•1 year ago
Maybe this isn’t the darkest timeline after all.
- Sens ( @Senseibu@feddit.uk ) 6•1 year ago
- NotTheOnlyGamer ( @NotTheOnlyGamer@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
I’m honestly tired of the trolling. We know that the advertisers and investors aren’t going to reverse course, which means Advance isn’t going to change, and that means Spez is going to keep going. All the trolling does is hurt the users, and push Reddit closer to the brink. Either Reddit will just be closed because it’s not profitable, or there will be a tsunami of bans.
- Oliver ( @oliver@lemmy.ca ) English13•1 year ago
We know that the advertisers and investors aren’t going to reverse course, which means Advance isn’t going to change, and that means Spez is going to keep going
He can do it, let him do it. But why should his members take on the volunteer work of keeping his project running again? Let him set up a paid staff to run the community in an authoritarian manner.
It’s not our business if his project might be in little trouble.
- RoboRay ( @RoboRay@kbin.social ) 10•1 year ago
The users are free to leave if they feel they are being hurt by the effects of Reddit’s more-money-at-all-cost policies.
- explodingkitchen ( @explodingkitchen@kbin.social ) 9•1 year ago
The die was cast when Reddit decided to put the 3rd party apps out of business. Doubling down on that is only accelerating the decline. We’ve now reached the point where even if Reddit did some serious backpedaling, it wouldn’t get some of its content creators back.
- NoneOfUrBusiness ( @NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
push Reddit closer to the brink.
That’s the point.
- explodingkitchen ( @explodingkitchen@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
I’m imagining r/fanfiction as a subreddit dedicated to fiction about Lady Windermere’s Fan.