The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.::Reddit corporate claims victory over its disgruntled mods as r/aww, r/pics, and r/videos abandon the “John Oliver rule.”
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Just If you consider the growth of 7000% of a competitor in the era when many players fight for the attention of the users a victory. Time will tell
They won, but hopefully the hit they took gives them pause. Lemmy won too, it’s become a nice little community and I’m happy to be here.
I’m here and I have an ad-free, troll-free, wholesome community to engage with on mostly the same topics I followed on Reddit. I declare myself the winner
I read that as toll free and was wondering if I was missing something.
Yah, too early in the morning for me!
I didn’t realize I had misread that till I read your comment. It’s late here.
Lemmy won imo
They might have won but now that Rif doesn’t work anymore I’m testing Lemmy. I’ve noticed that reddit content is less updated throughough the day so I suppose that some active posters have left.
I’m using Sync for Lemmy (with a lemmy.world account) it’s like Sync for Reddit, same!
I bet the “Reddit won” statement is a bit premature. Yes in a sense it pushed forward what they wanted to do kicking out third-party apps and moderators who didn’t toe the line. In the end, they kept the traffic but it must be mostly the silent majority of lurkers. I bet a significant chunk of the minority providing content and discussion went away or at least is trying out alternatives and finding a new home in the likes of Lemmy.
Time will tell if Reddit stagnates/declines content-wise.
I agree that reddit won but it was a, pyrrhic victory the content quality has massively gone down. I still have a secondary account there but I only use it to spread the word about lemmy. Haven’t used it in weeks because I don’t want to attract too much attention and get suspended.
This is like Bush’s mission accomplished. Too early to tell. Thanks to that though I found this nice community.
Spez gambled that most mods would give up because they where power whores. He won because he was right.
I never cared about the Reddit API war. For me, leaving Reddit was about how moderators have absolute yet arbitrary power to permanently ban users who do not agree with them. And I’m not talking about breaking their rules (racism, misogyny, transphobia) but simply having a disagreement of opinion that provides the mods an opportunity to ban you for life.
For the Reddit API thing, the funny thing was finding out I could have been using a better app the past seven years but didn’t know.
You sub to a subreddit and gen banned on others that had nothing to do with it. Try talking anou how bad the vaccines are… Get banned. It does not matter if you are right or not, cant even have the conversation
Oh, please don’t worry about that, Lemmy’s API will make it easier than Reddit’s to automatically ban plague rats
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I’m saying I want to ban plague rats
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If you’re banned for an opinion, that’s not right. If you’re banned because you’re spreading easily disprovable vaccine misinformation, that’s on you.
“Missinformation” lol everything on the vaccine has been missinformation until is not… “Virus came from a lab in china” “once you are vaccinated you wont get covid (depends on when you say it if its " missinformation” or not)" etc…
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They still have that power on Lemmy don’t they?
They do, but the difference is I can’t go to another reddit instance when they pull shit. It’s not flawless, but it certainly changes the power dynamics.
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And they don’t have ownership over a single community name as well. You can start a community with the same name on a different server
Can’t community moderators ban users too?
I think the idea here is that if mods are bad on, say, memes@lemmy.ml, everyone can just leave and make memes@sh.itjust.works or wherever. There should be more competition here, at least in theory. Time will tell how well it actually works.
Honestly I feel that this protest just showed me how uninteresting Reddit has become. Outside from small niche communities it’s basically equivalent to any other news feed out there be it google news, Twitter or whatever.
Maybe it’s not as good as we thought it was.
Me too! I thought it’s be hard to be without reddit, but it turned out to be easier than I thought. And I’ve noticed that lemmy is growing faster than I expected.
Hey I’m here so guess what
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I dont know what you say, I transitioned to Lemmy 100% and deleted my acc at reddit.
The only super annoying thing is that they get to keep the cake whole and the dog full (my comments by deleting my name and my acc deleted). Which I despite them for that even more now and just make me avoid the platform even more and dis-advertise it.
I would be fully happy if I had my account, changed my comments first to “fuck /u/spez” and then had deleted my account, but I only knew so much. I was naive enough to think they would delete my comments too, since they’re My Intellectual Property. Right? They came from my own mind, I took the time to write them, and I deleted them! But no! We will keep them, just delete your name.
And when you google my reddit username, you still get from the google’s cache directed to threads with my deleted comments. Fuck you spez. Fuck you.
Time will tell if reddit won. It’s not a short-term fight. I deleted my discord a Chinese Tencent’s vessel and a product that makes no money but burns money for the sake of gathering data. My Instagram, my Meta account thus my FB too, my WhatsApp, every app that was there just to gather my data or exploit me now or in the future.
I do everything to keep off being fingerprinted. I use platforms that use more and more end-to-end encryption like Matrix. Or at worst Telegram which is not end to end but the best of the worst since my relatives still use it.
Just because you don’t see it yet, doesn’t mean that a movement against anti-consumer platforms like reddit don’t exist. I inform my mom about it, I inform my relatives and friends about it. I move friends and friends move me to safer for the future to use platforms and de-centralized.
A battle may be short, but the war is long.
If you still have access to your account there’s a bot service that will edit all of your comments to whatever message you’d like (eg. “Fuck spez” or w.e) and then when you delete them that’s what it’ll display.
I don’t unfortunately, I would even have done it by hand despite that I’m a developer and could have made a bot myself. Point is, if I knew about it I would be so furious that I would have no problem doing it by hand. Fuck spez.
Discord isn’t owned or majority controlled by tencent at all. That’s antivax level paranoia.
Tencent owns a majority of the shares. If you want to dispute me, at least throw a source … it’s a well known fact in the business community.
Crunchbase - Discord Principal investors
Crunchbase - Discord Series B Lead investors (Tencent, Benchmark, 9+ Program)
You just claimed that out of your ass again. There isn’t a single source that says tencent has a majority stake from their investment with Discord Inc.
Not even the links you provided state what you are claiming.
Tencent owns a majority stake in GGG.
Tencent has only funded Discord for $158 million. Less than 1/3 of the total funding($500 million) it has received and well below the $15 billion the company is valued at.
Either you don’t know how investments and shares work, you’re bad at math or both.
Is most likely that tencent has a 10-15% stake in Discord.
Depending on when that funding came in and how the stocks got priced they could be majority shareholders, the founders of the company I work for own over 50% together although they’ve gotten way more funding from external investors than they’ve put in themselves
Tencent has only funded 158 million […] that’s only 1/3 of the shares
and that’s not a majority of the shares? Are you stupid or you’re pretending to be?
Because so far you’ve only insulted me but now it’s time for me to insult you. You firstly clearly don’t know how to make a discussion work without insulting your counterparty, and secondly don’t know in english the difference between “THE majority” and “A majority”.
You talk like a classic 9gagger who only knows how to talk with insults and misinformation and with pure arrogance. 1/3 is a majority of the shares. That’s how it works in business. 1/3 is a big number to take big decisions and make vetos and be on the table.
1/3 is not the majority. Majority of share has to be 50% and more. Usually majority is kept by the company and other shares are promised.
Investing doesn’t gauentee stakeholdership. You are making nothing but conspitorial assumptions.
Again, you have little grasp on economics, buisness, math and stakeholders.
I didn’t say THE majority. You continue to change my words. I said A majority. There can be multiple majorities in a community in relation to something else. And in the business world when you say 1/3 of shares is owned by X entity, that IS a majority. Because the rest is most likely 1 million other people/entities with no power, some are VC, some are CEO, some are other seeders.
I understand you may not know much about the business world. It’s not bad not knowing things. And stop insulting people for not knowing something. Shaming people for lack of knowledge is just such a loser mentality. It’s like sucking your own cock.
And at last you answered without direct insults, but you still gave me a “you have a little grasp of business economics and maths” which is ironical.
1/3 is a big portion to own from a company. I’m in the business world, I’m also been a trader for years now, we also do discussions on our company’s surge meetings about IPOs and I have friends who’ve been bank CEOs or still are. Believe me. 1/3 is a big portion to own from a company. You own
1/3 of the decisions in a sense that the company does. You have huge voting power and rights. Stop pretending to be blind for the sake of proving yourself right.
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Got one boys.
I removed all of my comments first, so they dont have anything. Used app to do this, took few minutes to remove thousands
Reportedly, they were restoring the comments of some deleted accounts for which they detected this.
Well if I find it I will report them to gdpr
Just a matter of time till majority of its users realise how easy it is to migrate to lemmy and how greedy and evil reddit has become.
Let Reddit become Myspace. Lemmy wins, however we use it.
Myspace? You already got reddits predecessor. Digg
Can moderators on reddit delete the subreddits they moderate?
Nope. You need to kick everyone out and leave. Anyone could message admins and request to take over.
I was thinking it was like chat groups in IM apps the owner/creator of the group can delete the group, so only Reddit can delete the subreddit that I create!
Afaik only reddit can delete a sub and I believe even they probably only lock them and kick everyone out?
I speak from experience as I created a novel sub r/FuckYourBoat (or something like that) and got tired of being considered a mod in the toolbars (don’t need them there) so I tried to get rid of it. No dice: Only leaving.
