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It's kinda dumb to go private as a protest, because visiting the home page as a lurker, there's no indication that anything is happening - just a different mix

It's kinda dumb to go private as a protest, because visiting the home page as a lurker, there's no indication that anything is happening - just a different mix of subreddits hitting the default feed It's a little quieter, I kinda like it.

tetris11 3y ago
But try searching the internet for any topic, seeing a good reddit page, clicking on it, and then realising - "oh wait, it's locked" - and then having to scramble to find a cached version of the page
code_duck 3y ago
Yeah, while I understand and appreciate this effort, Reddit is actually seems better without some of the giant default subs. It's more like it was 10 years ago. The site has hardly been a ghost town over the past couple of days. Smaller more obscure subs are hitting the front page, which is interesting, and to me it illustrates that if the large ones were to shut down entirely, there'd be no shortage of content and other mods/communities happy to take their place.
- dale_glass 3y ago
  Actually many smaller subreddits don't want to hit the front page. Reddit has different dynamics depending on where people are coming from. Small subreddits hitting the frontpage tends to be disruptive more than helpful by bringing in users that don't care about the local culture.
  - code_duck 3y ago
    I didn't say all communities wanted to. I said it was interesting. Mainly my point is that it wouldn't be death for reddit if some of the largest subs went away entirely, along with the 'power mods' who control dozens of communities. I have no doubt that mods of some of the smaller news subs, for instance, would be happy to start getting offers for tens of thousands of dollars to promote various articles.
dannersy 3y ago
This will be short lived since I see moderation tooling being pretty key in handling content at the scale Reddit does. The API changes will nuke those and not just the user apps. It is also important to know that third party applications have yet to be shut down completely, most say they will be closing shop end of this month. Reddit is still benefiting and riding some of the "quality" it had before the shutdowns (think bots, automods, etc). I expect that will soon go away since the subreddits that aren't protesting are most likely still using third party tools to make moderation less arduous. Anyone who is intenting to exploit this does not yet have the opportunity. Reddit is claiming they will reconcile the current issues with their moderation tooling, but if the app is any reflection of their ability to provide quality software, I wouldn't hold my breath. So much to say: The true death of Reddit will be a slow one. The protest is just the first wave of their complications.

tetris11 3y ago

But try searching the internet for any topic, seeing a good reddit page, clicking on it, and then realising - "oh wait, it's locked" - and then having to scramble to find a cached version of the page

code_duck 3y ago

Yeah, while I understand and appreciate this effort, Reddit is actually seems better without some of the giant default subs. It's more like it was 10 years ago. The site has hardly been a ghost town over the past couple of days. Smaller more obscure subs are hitting the front page, which is interesting, and to me it illustrates that if the large ones were to shut down entirely, there'd be no shortage of content and other mods/communities happy to take their place.

dale_glass 3y ago
Actually many smaller subreddits don't want to hit the front page. Reddit has different dynamics depending on where people are coming from. Small subreddits hitting the frontpage tends to be disruptive more than helpful by bringing in users that don't care about the local culture.
- code_duck 3y ago
  I didn't say all communities wanted to. I said it was interesting. Mainly my point is that it wouldn't be death for reddit if some of the largest subs went away entirely, along with the 'power mods' who control dozens of communities. I have no doubt that mods of some of the smaller news subs, for instance, would be happy to start getting offers for tens of thousands of dollars to promote various articles.

dannersy 3y ago

This will be short lived since I see moderation tooling being pretty key in handling content at the scale Reddit does. The API changes will nuke those and not just the user apps. It is also important to know that third party applications have yet to be shut down completely, most say they will be closing shop end of this month. Reddit is still benefiting and riding some of the "quality" it had before the shutdowns (think bots, automods, etc). I expect that will soon go away since the subreddits that aren't protesting are most likely still using third party tools to make moderation less arduous. Anyone who is intenting to exploit this does not yet have the opportunity. Reddit is claiming they will reconcile the current issues with their moderation tooling, but if the app is any reflection of their ability to provide quality software, I wouldn't hold my breath. So much to say: The true death of Reddit will be a slow one. The protest is just the first wave of their complications.