I assume someone’s deleting critical news articles there, or having bot armies downvote them. On Kbin and Lemmy and Squabbles, even on Google News, I see Reddit’s woes front and center.
This is why centralized communications platforms are an issue. He who control’s the communication channels controls what people see and hear, and what they know.
It’s why the Fox network, and later Fox News was started. It’s why Bezos bought the WaPo. It’s why no mainstream news site will challenge corporate ownership of the media.
Steve
HuffmanGoebbelsLet’s not.
Alternative explanation: People for whom this is important are left reddit and are here, upvoting, discussing. People who do not care are still no Reddit and because they don’t care, they are not upvoting or discussing such things.
To be honest, I am not sure I believe myself to this explanation, but I wanted to mention it. Who knows.
I see no reason it can’t be both. Reddit doesn’t want people to care, and people on reddit in fact don’t care.
It’s kinda ironic how literally all our communication from spez was through media, not reddit
Seems to be the way CEOs do it nowadays. A friend of mine works in tech and heard about her company downsizing after the CEO announced it to the media. Absolutely zero communication with the company’s staff before hand.
Ngl this sucks
Eat the rich?
@hiyaaaaa23 It’s because he’s only worried about broader public perception, not the opinions of his own users (except insofar as those impact that public perception). So he goes to the mainstream news media, especially after seeing he didn’t have any talent for engaging with the Reddit community in that AMA. The dude’s worried about his IPO, and he should be.
There was a pretty nasty article on Reuters which I would consider a nail in the IPO’s coffin.
Emphasis mine:
Thousands of moderators overseeing the site’s so-called subreddits are on strike. It’s a wrinkle in Reddit’s plan to go public, and a sign that plan is premature.
When Reuters says that, it means that everyone else knows their schedule to IPO (at minimum) is dead in the water unless they want to have the most laughable initial offering in history.
Long-term, their ability to recover from this seems mostly dependent upon the power users who moderate, and generate meaningful content’s willingness to stick around.
Those who remain indifferent are unlikely to fall within the group specified above.
Haha except for that stupid AMA where he answered like four softball questions.
What are you talking about. Go to global /r/popular, “Reddit is in crisis as prominent moderators loudly protest the company’s treatment of developers” is 6th on the front page right now. Did you just post this without checking what you were typing or what
I just checked /r/All and /r/Popular and after scrolling the whole first page I have 1 porn post on /r/interestingasfuck and a /r/technology post talking about the hacker blackmail event. So I am seeing two relating to the protest as of now.
However, I scrolled a few pages on /r/Popular and am not seeing the post you’re referring to. It is ~15 minutes later as I’m replying to your comment, so maybe that particular thread is gone?
Edit: I did just see a /r/memes post that references the protest too on /r/Popular I missed earlier.
I’ve just rechecked and it’s now fallen off front page - it was this: https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/14coqxp/reddit_is_in_crisis_as_prominent_moderators/
It was “23 hours old” when I posted that comment earlier, it’s now “1 day old”, so I assume it dropped down in the rankings because of that. But it was on the front page when this post was made
It has taken over r/technology basically
so basically reddit may be having a 1984 moment
Weirder still - they won’t let you control your own speech due to poor data and systems architecture (at best).
The way their API and database is set up only indexes a portion of your comments, and forbids you from accessing them if another “authority” cuts you off (private subs) - which leaves your ability to delete, modify, or otherwise manage what you have input into the site.
I wouldn’t be shocked if there were keywords or sites being critical or mentioning Reddit getting botvoted or just shadow banned outright.
I noticed this as well and of course they’re censoring it. Reddit wants to go public baby! No friendly fire!
What do you expect? Reddit at this point is the digital equivalent of a totalitarian dictatorship. Just without the mass murder aspect. Not that u/spez wouldn’t be on board with that if he could.
I do wish there was a filter, I already blocked the dedicated reddit magz
That was my thoughts too, anyone out of the loop on the whole situation wouldn’t really notice anything is happening unless they went to a sub participating in the blackout/protests. Reddit looks totally normal on the surface
Normal. Like Pyongyang.
Maybe its just the subs I ftontpage, but my Reddit front-page is pretty full of it.
Amen.