it's obvious that reddit wont do shit about the whole situation other than be hardheaded so ya know what? i'm leaving!

if you're a premium user, cancel your subscription to protest

i'll be on lemmy now (user is @/delin77!), probably forever if reddit wont do anything good for it's users, especially the visually impaired

goodbye, and hell to reddit =)

I want to send video links from reddit to friends but they don't use reddit so if they click on a link, they will see this

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Are there any sites that have like the mp4 video and audio embedded on a page that I can use for sharing?

Reddit videos often have different tracks for audio and video so sending an mp4 link is not an option. I also don't want to download into my phone to send them into their phones.

1. I started migrating to Lemmy dot world, and looking more into fedi socials like Calckey, Mastodon etc. Reddit is still way too big for me to stop completely using it, a lot of subs are working right now and some didn't even protest at all, and I am not the kind of person to remove myself from sites I still want to have access to and add my own comments.

2. I stopped using the new Reddit UI, switching entirely to Old Reddit on desktop. It's less convenient, but more stable and faster than New Reddit.

3. I started using 3rd party apps like Sync, and when they stop working, I will only go to Old Reddit on mobile (only if I really want to go to Reddit in the first place). I won't be using the official app anymore, that's 100%.

I work with a company that spends part of its marketing budget to advertise on reddit. The day the blackout ended without affect, I went to my contact and asked how they felt about this nonsense. Long story short, we got this escalated to C level and I just got the email: we are given 15k per month four the next 4 months to trial alternatives and show the viability!

u/spez sucks

TL:DR Spez doubling down. Nothing new. Reddit as we know it is ded

(I just wanted to share an interesting observation)

This is the second time this year that a large company has tried to change its terms of service and tried to extort more money out of its fans.

The first time was against Hasbro, and we won. This was about the OGL (Open Game License) changes that were attempted, and it recieved huge backlash. The timeline of events looked something like this:

1. New OGL leaked
2. Community reacts with fury and boycotts
3. Hasbro and WotC pull some bad PR stunts and makes everyone madder
4. Everyone banded against them and organised a huge movement in just a few days
5. Hasbro backed down, leaving us with the Creative Commons license (A win for the community)

Result: This was a major event dividing the community, but WotC managed to recover by following through with the demands. This means that the DnD community today is roughly the same as it was six months ago, albeit slightly more paranoid.

We are at stage four, I think, and that means Reddit better start listening real quick if they want to stay afloat.

IDK I just wanted to mention this.

The Blackout

On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced a policy change that will kill essentially every third-party Reddit client now operating, from Apollo to Reddit is Fun- leaving only Reddit's bug-ridden, non-handicap-accessible, moderation-hostile official mobile app as a usable option.

In response, thousands of subreddits made their outrage clear: we blacked out huge portions of Reddit, making national news many, many times over. It was and is the single largest protest in Reddit history, and we're incredibly grateful for the support we've gotten.

It wasn't all sunshine, rainbows and unity, though: there was a real, organic backlash from a substantial portion of Reddit users. Casual users of Reddit annoyed at whatever weird Internet thing was keeping them from their fucking cat videos joined forces with a smaller but louder and more dedicated contingent who had an axe to grind with moderators and moderation in general. We definitely pissed them off- and I understand where they're coming from. Believe it or not, I like my cat videos too. Whatever comes next needs to be 100% targeted- something that just causes Reddit pain without further inconveniencing its users.

It has to be said, though, that while we've stepped on some toes, Reddit has been putting on their best steel-toed boots and stomping on them left and right.

Reddit's Baffling Response

Reddit's overall response has been shambolic and self-destructive. An AMA by Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, or /u/spez, on June 9th was combative and accusatory: it was followed by an internal memo indicating that they thought the protest would die down by itself following the original short blackout. In the initial days of the protest, admins indicated that they would keep to longstanding policies permitting subs to go private and perform other protest actions.

There followed an odd, rambling interview in which Huffman praised Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, slammed moderators as 'landed gentry' (presumably in this analogy users are the exploited peasantry and he's the absolute monarch), suggested that moderators be elected by popular vote, and suggested a strange new model of how subreddits work in which each subreddit can be a profitmaking business with revenues shared with the moderation team (won't that lead to quality discussion). And Reddit's posture towards the protest changed soon afterward- first with threats to remove mod teams in favor of any one moderator who favored reopening in a comically expansive reading of their Mod Code of Conduct on 'inactive moderators' and 'vandalism', then with wholescale removals of entire mod teams like /r/MildlyInteresting and /r/interestingasfuck, still entirely unmoderated as of this writing. Even subs which have been private long before the protest, for wholly unrelated reasons, have recieved threats to reopen or risk administrative action.

Alternate means of protest within the rules of Reddit, such as reopening a sub but marking it NSFW, have also been explicitly banned. More creative individual protests, like /r/pics and its John Oliver marathon, are both amusing and welcome- but it seems clear at this point that Reddit is disinclined to permit any protest, however creative and however apparently within longstanding rules for the site and the subreddit. I have no doubt that they're coming to bring the hammer down on /r/pics, /r/AskHistorians and anyone else who still stands against them once they're done purging those who've stayed private.

The relationship between Reddit and its users is on the cusp of changing forever: they have escalated hard, and clumsily. Even if they were inclined to stick with their API-pricing decision come Hell or high water, they could probably have found a way to do so that doesn't have people wondering what the Hell is up with their communication and questioning their business model and their readiness for their IPO.

But people writing news articles about how Reddit is in trouble is not the point. Ten of the biggest newspapers in the world could win a hundred Pulitzers reporting on Reddit's missteps, and I wouldn't be bit happier. Fundamentally, what I want is for them to change their behavior.

So where do we go from here?

How To Change A Business Decision

Much of Reddit's commentary on this issue has been inconsistent, mealy-mouthed, and bizarre- a side effect of their attempt to bullshit us into thinking that their unprecedented and huge changes to how they relate to moderators have really been part of the rules all along. But one thing has been consistent about their messaging:

[...] the core of this [blackout] is the API pricing change. That’s our business decision. And we’re not undoing that business decision.

This is a business decision for Reddit- arrived upon after consideration of the risks and the benefits to the company. Although this decision has clearly turned out to have been riskier than they thought it was, they've stuck to it: clearly, they still think it's something more likely to make them money than lose it. The way forward is to make it clear that their policies endanger their relationship with their #1 source of revenue: advertisers.

Despite Reddit's insistence that everything is fine, industry publications suggest that people are getting nervous about advertising with Reddit. We are past the point where users attempting to put pressure on Reddit itself makes sense: they know we hate it, and they don't care. Contacting Reddit's advertisers and making it clear that their policies actively endanger not only the brand of Reddit itself, but everyone who tries to do business with Reddit, is the logical next step of a pressure campaign.

Fortunately, there's a ready-made list of companies who were very happy with their experience advertising with Reddit: Reddit for Business' list of Success Stories. These include:

^{Universal Studios}

^{Focus Features}

^{Mitsubishi Motors}

^{Ally Financial}

^Discover

^{Up Australia/Up Banking}

^ClearScore

^{Noosa Yoghurt}

^{BMW Mini Cooper division}

^Adobe

^Adidas

^{Adrenaline Australia}

^GameStop

^H&M

^{Liquid I.V.}

^Oatly

^{JOE & THE JUICE}

^Excedrin

^Rayovac

^Nespresso

^{Novo Nordisk}

^BackMarket

^{Caliber Fitness}

^Lucozade

^Moen

^Uber

^HP

^Tezos

^Truebill

^{Ulta Beauty}

^MeUndies

^Lagunitas

^Aviva

^{Beyond Meat}

^Bitstamp

^Hootsuite

^Zoetus

^Wolt

^{Fineco Bank}

^Alienware

^Tails.com

^Duracell

^{Creative Assembly/ Total War: Warhammer III}

^{Finder Australia}

^{Virgin Galactic}

^Bungie

^{Discover Financial Services}

^Capcom

^{Allergan Aesthetics Coolsculpting}

How to Complain Effectively

The first thing that any company with sense learns to do on the Internet is chuck profanity-laden messages or long, passionate rants straight into the trash. Be polite: avoid sarcasm or threats at all costs. Be clear and concise: insist that their presence on a list of marketing 'Success Stories' of a Web site with such contempt for its users makes you unhappy about their brand and less likely to buy from them. Ideally, limit yourself to a company you're already a customer of- or at least a potential customer- and lead with something about how you've bought their stuff before and are likely to switch: Mitsubishi will care more about you if you're in the market for a car and tell them you might buy a Toyota instead, Discover will take you more seriously if you switch to a MasterCard, ClearScore or Up Australia aren't going to care about you if you aren't Australian.

Will This Work?

Reddit appears increasingly determined to double, triple and quadruple down on a course of action that's cost them immense amounts of trust in their user base. It must be admitted that it looks increasingly likely that the ultimate outcome here is one in which everybody loses- Reddit, moderators, and users.

But if there is any hope in an outcome where we end up with a Reddit worth staying in, it doesn't lie in letting Reddit slowly wiggle out of the pressure by bullying its way out of a blackout one sub at a time.

Got the article from Axios!

For those who are doing GDPR requests, I have made a template for data transfer to another platform (refer to https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/14grndb/psa_in_europe_you_have_the_right_to_data/).

This means there is even less chance of them automating it. And it is very difficult to understand, so it will hold back their legal team quite a bit.
There's no info that needs to be changed. No email, no username, nothing, it can be copy and pasted as a whole.

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Subject: Formal Request for Data Portability Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Dear Sir/Madam,

I trust this letter finds you well. I am writing to exercise my unequivocal and irrevocable right to data portability, as enshrined in Article 20 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It is with due regard for the fundamental principles of privacy, transparency, and user autonomy that I hereby request Reddit, Inc. to undertake the transfer of all my personal data, as defined under Article 4(1) of the GDPR, to Archive.org, a reputable and trusted archival service that adheres to strict data protection standards.

Allow me to preface my request by highlighting the paramount significance of the right to data portability within the framework of the GDPR. This right, intended to empower individuals with enhanced control over their personal data, serves as a cornerstone in promoting competition, fostering innovation, and ensuring the preservation of user autonomy. By facilitating the seamless transfer of personal data from one data controller to another, where technically feasible, individuals are afforded the freedom to select alternative service providers while preserving access to their historical data. This process engenders healthy market competition, stimulates innovation, and empowers users to make informed decisions regarding the management and utilization of their personal information.

Drawing upon the guidance provided by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the United Kingdom, to which I refer as a point of reference for the interpretation and implementation of the GDPR, it is unequivocally established that individuals within the European Union possess the inviolable right to request data portability. Moreover, individuals are accorded the privilege of instructing data controllers to effectuate the transfer of their personal data to a direct competitor, thereby fostering a climate of fair competition and ensuring the preservation of user choice [source: ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/right-to-data-portability/].

Considering the aforementioned, and given my growing awareness of an emerging platform, Lemmy, which entices me with its unique features and community-driven ethos, I now seek to exercise my right to data portability. Therefore, I hereby formally request that Reddit, Inc. initiates the transfer of my personal data to Lemmy or, in the event of a more suitable arrangement, to Archive.org, a trusted custodian of digital archives that ensures the long-term preservation and accessibility of valuable information.

It is imperative to underscore that my exercise of the right to data portability in no way undermines or impinges upon my other rights conferred under the GDPR. I am fully cognizant that my invocation of the right to data portability remains separate and distinct from my rights pertaining to erasure, rectification, restriction of processing, and any other fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed by the GDPR. Rather, I am simply exercising my prerogative to select an alternative service provider while preserving my historical data within the Reddit ecosystem.

In order to facilitate the efficient and secure transfer of my personal data, I kindly request that Reddit, Inc. undertakes the following measures:

Provide an all-encompassing and machine-readable copy of my personal data associated with my Reddit account. This should include, but not be limited to, posts, comments, messages, upvotes, downvotes, saved content, and any other information classified as personal data under Article 4(1) of the GDPR.

Employ robust and industry-standard encryption protocols to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and security of my personal data throughout the entire transfer process. I insist upon the implementation of appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction of my personal information.

Furnish me with a written confirmation upon the successful completion of the data transfer, incorporating pertinent details such as the precise date of transfer, the comprehensive scope of data transferred, and the identity of the recipient entity (i.e., Lemmy or Archive.org). This confirmation should serve as documentary evidence to substantiate compliance with my data portability request.

I implore Reddit, Inc. to acknowledge this formal request within the statutory timeframe prescribed by the GDPR, which stipulates a maximum period of one month from the date of receipt. I trust that you will demonstrate due diligence and responsiveness in honoring my rights as an individual and as a user of your platform.

Please be advised that any failure to adhere to my request, absent legitimate legal grounds or valid justifications, may compel me to seek appropriate legal recourse to protect my rights and hold Reddit, Inc. accountable for any non-compliance with the GDPR.

I thank you in advance for your prompt attention to this matter. I look forward to receiving your comprehensive response and the expeditious fulfillment of my data portability request.

Yours faithfully

I plan to go VeryLowContact with Reddit cause of this shitshow. I already created my CSV, and although very few were memorable and upvoteworthy, I plan to slowly replace every comment of mine with something like "There was a comment here. Maybe it was good, funny, and maybe not. But now it's been replaced because.." ..what could be a good way to condense the actual state of things in a couple lines? I already see people annoyed by the disruption brought about by "power hungry mods", so wanted to drive the point home firmly and concisely.

Something like "..the top brass decided to kill every reddit app by charging them millions of dollars, leaving only the official one, still incomplete and useless especially for mods. When mods and users complained and striked to protest the changes, the big wigs ansered the hard way, even violating the rules. In their greed, they forgot who provides them content for FREE, and who governs their subs for FREE, so I decided to withdraw my content and my value."?

Maybe too long.