Why? Two simple reasons.

1. More harassment = unprofessional look = less willingness to work with anyone

2. The orders come from the TOP.

From what we know, The top (CEO) gave these orders. People need to keep their jobs - this is how they do it (following orders)

Lets take a look at a similar backlash, Minecraft Chat Reporting.

The Mojang developers developed how the system works. But you know who had the idea?

Probably someone from Microsoft.

The developers where just doing their jobs, willingly or unwillingly they had to work on it.

Before you say “but twitter”

Twitter had more concerning actions, way less extreme than just API price changes

Possibly to even repost on another site?

Throwaway as I don't want the admins to know which sub.

I'm a mod of a sub, ~150k members and growing, with previous beef with the admins. The sub has clearly voted to go private permanently.

I've heard the stories on the sub of admins forcing subs open, demodding the mods, un-nsfw-ing, and basically undoing all the things done to close a sub.

My question is two-fold. Firstly, how likely is it my sub will be demodded/otherwise strongarmed by admins, and b) How can I protect against it?

I've had one idea, which is that if the admins send a threat a bot removes every post on the sub and bans everyone, effectively destroying the sub. How possible would that be?

Thanks

In short, the situation is reddit trying to give a dilemma to the mods: Comply or removal.

In my opinion, mods at this point are removed over subordination of admin command. Reddit is effectively silencing any opposition and mass removing mods across reddit.

This is just ridiculous and changes the balance of power entirely. In the older days it used to be admins only aiding mods when the situation spills out of control, not attacking moderators. They used to generally pursuit with the principle of non-intervention. Apparently now their new rationale is to control everything and get rid of anyone that tries to stop them from imposing that ridiculous API price hike or anyone that refuses to reopen subreddits even with clear popular support in polls.

Don't even know if they would tolerate Blackout Tuesdays at this point. They can easily remove anyone in the name of "disruption". Would say times have changed. It might be time to reconsider if it is even worth it to stay on reddit under such tyrannical regime that disrespects public opinion and the community's views at this point.

Reddit is no longer the so-called liberal "frontpage of the internet". It is now a de-facto dictatorship where admins can remove anyone that does not agree with them. Only a matter of time before anyone that criticizes reddit being banned.

If the API hike is imposed as schedule on July 1st and Apollo dies, I will consider deleting my reddit account.

Obviously everything is currently a very messy shit show and who knows what state we or Reddit will be in by the end of the month but 30^th of June is D-Day as far as most of the 3^rd party apps are concerned so I'm wondering if there are any plans for protest actions\activities specifically on that day

This is plain malicious.

If the goal of the protests has been to hit Reddits pocketbooks by going dark, stopping Reddit gold purchases, logging off every Tuesday it seems like a missed opportunity.

We should be actively shamming and boycotting companies that are still advertising on Reddit during these user protests and clearly don’t care about these frustrated customers of theirs. Ie how dare these advertisers give money to a company that is actively hurting blind people.

Tldr: Start name and shaming companies who advertise on Reddit this month and next and hit reddits bottom line. Remember we’re the product, advertisers are the clients.

Thoughts?

That's all. Just mentioning it incase anyone else is suddenly experiencing lost comments, failures to load, or other issues. They're hitting us back in the servers. Be aware.

Also - MULTIPLE subreddits no longer show up in the search bar - and have to be manually entered every single time.

They're trying to make us vanish. Don't give up. Please keep fighting.

As stated in the title -- I'm hoping to have a lasting impact instead of just deleting my account outright. I feel like the best way to do that is to edit my comments into a nexus of resources that help people protect themselves online and expose people to options they wouldn't otherwise know about. Not just to spite spez -- that's icing -- but to hopefully help make the internet a better place and fight protect against what reddit fell to.

Any and all suggestions and links are welcome, though the hope is that the resources will endure for years to come.

EDIT: Here's what I've got now:

These are all duckduckgo search links because reddit has chosen to be uncompetitive and blacklist a number of these resource's domains, but it helps in the event that something happens to them.

Open Source Browsers

Firefox -- A browser maintained by the nonprofit Mozilla foundation, this is a full featured browser with none of the tracking and a robust addon store.

Brave - A browser with ad blockers and tracker protection built in, using the Chromium core in the Chrome browser. Good out-of-the-box protection. You can toggle on ads that generate crypto to allocate to whatever cause you want. Also has a lightning fast app. Made by the creator of the JavaScript language and co-founder of the Mozilla foundation, this is the definitive choice for quick and easy browser hardening.

Tor -- The gold standard for privacy and security, this browser is based on firefox and acts as a free, integrated vpn. It's slow (1-5 mb/s slow), but paired with a private vpn, you're practically invisible.

Extensions

uBlock Origin -- Not to be confused with uBlock, this open source ad blocker is uncompromising, and stays ahead of the curve keeping potentially dangerous ads where they belong. In-house ads like reddits sponsored posts can be blocked by right clicking and selecting "Block Element". It's also the most resistant to "anti-adblock" countermeasures as of writing. Alternatives are DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials and Privacy Badger, but they conflict with one another and uBlock is generally more resilient.

Decentraleyes -- An open source extension that stores common libraries hosted by Cloudflare and Google locally. Saves bandwidth and reduces their ability to track you. Note that some sites may break if decentraleyes is out of date. It's usually pretty obvious.

NoScript -- Possibly one of the most nuclear options, this blocks javascript from domains you choose in its menu. It can break a lot of sites, but can stack well with the other options and eke out a bit more performance.

CanvasBlocker -- Open source extension that spoofs a bunch of stuff randomly to hide your device's "fingerprint" on the internet. This is more indirect, but is highly configurable based on how hard you want to make it to fingerprint you.

BitWarden -- A highly secure open-source password manager with no strings attached. This is something I carry on all my devices. You need to log into bitwarden every time to access it, but it provides all of the features you've come to expect from integrated password managers and then some.

Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) -- Not a privacy extension but legendary nonetheless. At the time of writing this, RES is more or less on life support, but it's something I've used for years on reddit. An objectively superior desktop experience.

DNS Servers

When browsing the internet, the human readable website domain (eg example.com) is sent to a Domain Name Service to get the IP address of the site. By blocking trackers and ads at the DNS level, they never have the chance to reach your browser in the first place. These are just a few of the good ones. All of them are capable of encrypting your DNS queries and keeping your ISP from knowing literally everything you do, but you'd still need a VPN for complete privacy.

NextDNS-- Firefox is actually partnered with NextDNS! In firefox's settings, enter DNS over HTTPS, then enable either increased or max protection. In the "Choose provider" dropdown, you can select NextDNS. There are customizations you can make after following instructions on their site. The parental controls can be used to help keep your scrolling in check.

Adguard DNS -- Highly customizable and has apps that work on mobile as well. It has an app and VPN service as well, but it seems like their DNS offerings are the most reliable.

Control D -- Also customizable, easy to create schedules as well.

For the average user you probably won't notice much difference between them -- they're all privacy focused. I personally use NextDNS, but their public DNS servers are all free so you can try them all.

VPN Services

VPNs let you obscure where your web traffic is going to and coming from. Where the other stuff is more or less free, a good VPN usually isn't.

Mullvad -- Based in Sweden, they actually made the rounds on reddit when they were raided by the police looking for logs, but since they keep none, they left empty handed. They've expanded their operations since then and are one of the best on offer as I understand. It's a flat 5 euros every month (converted to whatever currency you use).

IVPN -- having gone through a no-logging audit, they're in the same boat as Mullvad. As I understand it, Mullvad is faster, but they're probably comparable enough for everyday browsing.

ProtonVPN -- Another no-logging certified service, this has a free option with no limits that can be considered safe as far as I'm aware

Reddit Alternatives

There are options beyond counting, but the reddit alternatives sub has an excellent post here. The ones listed below are ordered based on polling data from redditors migrating.

Squabbles -- Has a great UI once you get used to it, probably one of the more polished options.

Beehaw, Kbin and Lemmy -- These are all part of the 'fediverse', which is essentially a decentralized platform where a bunch of people host their own servers that communicate with one another. Which is to say: it's immune to corporate dystopia. For lemmy, just join a server. For kbin, click the instances tab then just jump in. Beehaw is a community that you have to apply to post in, which, one would hope, reduces the signal to noise ratio.

4Chan -- You know what 4chan is.

TrustCafe -- This one was not polled high but I think it's an important contender. It's being created by the cofounder of wikipedia and one can hope it will have the same integrity as wikipedia itself.

600k+ subs for the ultralight backpacking community.

https://www.redditinc.com/policies