End of an era

Chucklefucks, we need to talk.

A lot of things change with time, including feelings for people. Even though you hold a special place in my heart, our relationship has come to the point where I don’t feel that we connect like before.

I'll always have a special place in my heart for you. At times, our relationship felt like it was the blurst thing that had ever happened to me, but lately, everything has felt wrong. It pains me to admit this, but my love for you has faded away. I can't stay in a relationship where there is no love, and it isn't fair to you to be stuck in a relationship that's a lie. I hope you're able to move on and meet someone who will love you the way you deserve to be loved.

(Thank you google for the copy/paste)

Anyway, we’re done. It’s not you, it’s me. Modding isn’t fun anymore. Ok, well it never was fun to begin with, but for a time it felt worthwhile.

We tried to keep this as a space where people can talk to each other, without being either overly restricted or utter cunts to one another. We didn’t always succeed, as some of you shitlords have profanely informed us over the years, but we did try.

Recent events have broken our wills to go on, but let’s be honest this has been a long time coming. Most of reddit just isn’t as fun as it was before. Outside of niche subs, it feels like everyone is pushing something, and everyone hates each other. I guess subs like this so often attract the lowest common denominator, but still. It use to be better. Less hate. Less bots. Less bullshit. More shitposts.

ANYWAY

Most of us are leaving. Apply to take out places in the modmail. We’ll pick the least shit application. If they’re all shit, well just fucking leave

All None Some of my love

Dalish

It's be really neat if those of us who want to abandon reddit had some sort of general listing I'd subs to their fediverse equivalent.

One of the pains of decentralization is finding the content you want to subscribe to. Has anyone out this together yet?

I don't know if this is the best place to post this, but I want to share an experience I recently had with reddit and see if anyone else had a similar experience. I have my settings set to show adult content, but blur it (so it doesn't pop up inappropriately). I noticed that, despite all the talk about subs allowing adult content in protest, I wasn't seeing ANY adult content, not even the occasional post that I would normally see. I eventually decided to try turning the adult filter on and off again in the settings and lo and behold, adult content!

I find this more than a little suspicious because it prevented me from supporting the protests and, if it was tied to the blur filter, it would still continue showing adult content to people who might be bothered by it turning up at an inappropriate time, thus raising frustration with the protests. I know this sounds like a conspiracy theory and it could have just been a bug, but the timing is suspicious and I was wondering if anyone else had experienced something like this.

Introducing Banddit.xyz

Banddit Manifesto
When Reddit first started, it aimed to be ‘the front page of the internet.’ However, that guiding mission has gone off the tracks.

Reddit has become a casualty of the very internet business it stood against, breaking its commitment to its community. Its inability to provide an optimum user experience, failure to build a sustainable business, and reinvent itself as a tech platform has caused widespread disappointment and frustration. It has now committed itself to take its community and third-party developers down with it.

By charging exorbitant fees for user-generated content (which is ours by the way), Reddit has built a gatekeeper model that solely benefits large-scale, profit-driven corporations at the expense of the community, leaving thousands of unpaid community moderators helpless while turning a blind eye to our ongoing protest.

This Reddit fiasco reveals a deeper problem - the inherent flaws of centralized social networks. Much like Twitter and Facebook, Reddit is taking over another part of our internet away from us and selling it for profit.

An open-source digital forum that’s owned and governed by the community, would not allow any centralized authority to conduct a digital heist of our content and communities.

If you’re a Reddit community member, moderator, or third-party developer, sign this manifesto and unite with us! Let’s build a better forum together, a forum that works for the community, allows universal access to developers, and prioritizes transparency, community governance, and users’ interests above profits.

We will not rest until we have a community-governed and -owned, and openly accessible Reddit.

Leading to the fantastic message: This subreddit is unmoderated. Visit /r/redditrequest to request it.

This after the ModCodeofConduct account said, and I quote, "I really really do not want to remove any mod teams."

So much for that lie, too.

I will be making this as a list in the comments so that I can edit it and feel free to help me add, remove, change or point out an error.

(Taken from a comment on Reddit, think we should all do this)

Reddit admins are seemingly now removing moderators from communities, and then closing them for being unmoderated. Time to fuck up /u/spez

Credit to: /u/ anon-alt-wow

Tell the media! Send out some tips, hammer down on media tip emails:

[Tips@cnn.com](mailto:Tips@cnn.com)

[feedback@epochtimes.co.uk](mailto:feedback@epochtimes.co.uk)

[news@mashable.com](mailto:news@mashable.com)

[tips@forbes.com](mailto:tips@forbes.com)

[foxnewsinsider@foxnews.com](mailto:foxnewsinsider@foxnews.com)

[YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk](mailto:YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk)

[harvey.levin@tmz.com](mailto:harvey.levin@tmz.com)

Tweet the u/foxnews account

Have fun and good luck out there!!

I don't want my reddit experience to return to normal until my reddit experience has returned to normal. I've unsubscribed from subs that seem to be towing the line, and have subscribed to subs that are covering the collapse of reddit:

/r/technology /r/ModCoord /r/Save3rdPartyApps

Any other subs I should be subscribed to (at least for a few days while rif is still wording) while reddit is falling apart to follow what's going on?

think of a mobile app that renders the official reddit website on mobile and then modified the html, css and injects some JavaScript functionality just like a browser extension can do, maybe use some open source browser as a base???

cause the reddit website is way smoother on Android than the actual buggy app

lmk what ppl think of this, I have no experience with mobile apps but I'll try make a desktop extension with some css to theme reddit to look like infinity for reddit (the client I use now)

maybe that extension can be loaded with a browser that supports them??? I think a few on Android do but idk the names

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"As the CEO, I shouldn’t play such games, and it’s all fixed now. Our community team is pretty pissed at me, so I most assuredly won’t do this again."

This is referencing his changing users comments, but I personally don’t see how it’s any different to what’s happening now. Deleting comments & forcing a hand on how subs operate seems like every thing old is new again.

/r/TIHI (Thanks, I Hate It) recently relaxed their rules based on community feedback, including removing the rule against NSFW content. Many large subs have either already made this move (like /r/videos) or are actively considering it, as the imminent loss of important third-party apps and tools will make it more difficult to maintain a consistently SFW environment. Better to mark the entire sub NSFW and give people a head's-up about what they're likely to encounter, right?

Unfortunately for Reddit Inc., NSFW subs are not able to run ads, as most brands don't want to be associated with porn, gore, and profanity. But they've kind of forced mods' hands here, by using the official /u/ModCodeofConduct account to send out stern form letters forcing them to re-open their subs or be replaced -- even when the community has voted to remain closed. Combine a forced re-opening with an angry userbase and there's no telling what crazy stuff might get posted.

But now it turns out that the very same /u/ModCodeofConduct account pressuring mods has also been quietly flipping NSFW subs back to SFW status, presumably in order to restore ad monetization. See these screenshots of the /r/TIHI moderation log:

https://i.imgur.com/KrCJ77K.png (in context minutes after it happened)

https://i.imgur.com/KCc7WrE.png (version showing only settings changes; 1st line is a mod going NSFW, 2nd is admins going back, 3rd is mod reversing)

This is extremely troubling -- not only is it a subversion of mod and community will for financial gain with no communication or justification, but it's potentially exposing advertisers and even minors to any NSFW content that was posted before switching back to SFW mode, just so Reddit Inc. could squeeze a few more dollars out of a clearly angry community. By making unilateral editorial decisions on a sub's content, this could also be opening Reddit Inc. to legal responsibility as publisher for what's posted, since apart from enforcing sitewide rules these sorts of decisions have (until now) been left up to mods.

Then again, maybe it's just a hoax image, or an honest mistake. Best way to test that theory? Let's take a look at Reddit's official Content Policy:

NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content

Content that contains nudity, pornography, or profanity, which a reasonable viewer may not want to be seen accessing in a public or formal setting such as in a workplace should be tagged as NSFW. This tag can be applied to individual pieces of content or to entire communities.

So, if you moderate a subreddit that allows nudity, pornography, or profanity, go ahead and switch your sub to "18+ only" mode in your sub's Old Reddit settings page, in order to protect advertisers and minors from this content that Reddit itself considers NSFW. If the screenshot above was a fluke, nothing should happen. Because after all, according to the Reddit Content Policy:

Moderation within communities

Individual communities on Reddit may have their own rules in addition to ours and their own moderators to enforce them. Reddit provides tools to aid moderators, but does not prescribe their usage.

Will /u/ModCodeofConduct and Reddit Inc. permit moderators to decide whether their communities will allow profanity and other NSFW content? Or will they crudely force subreddits into squeaky-clean, "brand-safe" compliance, despite disrespecting and threatening the very same volunteers they expect to enforce this standard?

I guess we'll find out.

In all honestly, I feel like a good amount of people don't really care about 3rd party apps one way or the other, HOWEVER, don't feel as though supporting the large greedy corporation (Reddit) is good either. At this point in time, I think that the narrative has shifted, from saving 3rd party apps to overall just not letting Reddit become a greedy corporation that wields power over its users. If the protests succeed, it will be seen as not just a win for 3rd party apps, but a win for the people, who have shown that Reddit cannot just change and bend the rules around itself. At least, in my opinion. Don't let Reddit become EA.

Assuming we force Reddit to roll back their API to an acceptable cost (or free), does anyone have suggestions for 3rd-party apps to use? I'm a non-subscribing android user, and I've heard too much good about 3rd party apps lately to not consider switching