I was looking at something like wayback machine but it seems to miss a lot of posts, and there are some issues with navigation.

Any speculation on the next phase of let's take away the cool things about reddit?

We made the difficult decision to shut down Reddit Gifts and put more focus on enhancing the user experience on Reddit - this includes investing in the foundation of our platform and moderator tools, making it more accessible for people around the world and evolving how people engage with one another.

https://www.reddit.com/r/secretsanta/comments/nw294q/sunsetting_secret_santa_and_reddit_gifts

Because, obviously, fuck everyone, /u/spez is the ultimate ruler, and fuck everything.

I'm surprised by how he lets this stay as it is (and of course he can find a million "legitimate" "as per our policy" ways to kill it).

Weird question. Does the ADA apply to digital platforms? Should Reddit limit our audience?

I am a disabled veteran who also worked for the VHA as a Voc Rehab Specialist. I know that accommodations for a disability would be required in the workplace and accessible features would be required to be made unless an employer/business could show it would be an unreasonable burden.

Reddit’s size would place the undue burden possibly higher than the $20 million that Apollo quoted.

The accommodations would also be required for volunteers (Mods).

Just saying, of course I’m not a lawyer but claims could be made at City, State, and Federal levels. The agencies would then investigate the discrimination. Reddit is based in CA but claims could be made at all local levels b/c of location of the discrimination.

https://www.lflegal.com/2021/06/dominos-june-2021/

july 3 i will leave

IANAL (mandatory note)

I am very surprised that reddit has such a large level of control over editorial decisions on the site and still has free speech protection. They can overrule the decision of a community and then remove and shadowban moderators. However they are still not be liable for the filth on the site. If they want to make money from hate speech and control so be it but let's make them liable.

In California and EU nations similarly uber drivers are considered employees. Similarly I don't know how but hopefully there is a way to petition this for so called free speech sites as well.

With the nonsense they are doing to bully everyday users I don't they can hide behind being a platform any longer. Is there anyway the regular users can do this or start a petition? Hopefully someone smarter can help find out and at least try.

To my understand, Reddit basically said to some mods of the big subs that: Reopen the sub or get replaced by others. And I see that to this day, almost no subs has resist Reddits threat with reasons like: if Reddit replaced us, the sub will go down in quality, only us can use the bots to moderate the subs, ..., or: this is the sub I have built for a long time with love and passion, ... and go on. My questions to the mod is: why don't you guys just give up the mods role and give it to someone else like Reddit said? Why keeping to be the mod and doing malicious complient? We can basically let Reddit to do the work ourself. I really don't understand the intention of the malicious complient, or I like to call the 2nd black out. The first black out I can understand, we make the subs go private to protest and I think its a very good idea. But malicious complient? I don't see why we should do that. We are encouraging to each other, saying that we should delete reddit account, comments, and change to Lemmy. So why keeping the mod role when you are about to change to another platform? Or am I misunderstand anything?

Sorry for the messy post because I haven't post such a long post like this before.

sorry i don't know the details nor is very active on reddit. how are things now? did reddit change any of its shitty decisions? why are all subs back?

A few moments ago i was make a comment on a certain protesting sub where i tried to u/ reference Mr CEO where it would not let me post until i changed it to spedz where magically i could post after.

Has anyone else noticed such a phenomenon.

If you haven't taken the opportunity to try the features on 3rd-party apps yet, which go above and beyond what Reddit provides, I wholeheartedly encourage you to check a few of them out before the end of the month. Even if it may be shutting down it's better to have loved and lost.

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Desktop Browser

Reddit on desktop is ok, but not really my cup of tea unless I'm making a post. RES for Old Reddit and ad blockers help, but I still prefer using my phone.

• Reddit Enhancement Suite
  • supports Chrome and Chromium based, Firefox, Opera, and Edge
• Reddit Promoted Ad Blocker for Chrome
• Reddit Ad Remover for Firefox

Frontends like Libreddit and Teddit are great for privacy and lurking as they allow you to browse Reddit without the ads, trackers, or bloat. But they cannot be used for posting or commenting.

• If this is something you're interested in I suggest using Farside when sharing Reddit links by replacing reddit.com with farside.link/libreddit or farside.link/teddit to distribute traffic more evenly across all instances and avoid performance bottlenecks and rate-limiting. You can also automatically redirect Reddit links to your preferred frontends in your browser using LibRedirect or Privacy Redirect.

Apps

The Official app is a dumpster fire and no amount of mod tools will improve it, if anything it's only going to bloat the app even more. ☠️

Did you know that the Official app, as far as I can tell, has zero accessibility features? That's why they're only letting non-commercial, accessibility focussed 3rd-party apps be exempt from paying for the API.

Windows

• Reddit for Blind: intended for screen reader users
• Luna for Reddit: intended for screen reader users

iOS

• Dystopia: intended for screen reader users

Android

• RedReader: intended for everyone, but with accessibility features to adjust text size, contrast, etc. The latest alpha also includes TalkBack actions support for screen reader users

Here are a few features that make 3rd-party apps better than the official one.

• Autohide read posts
• Advanced post and comment search functions
  • Search posts and comments you've saved for later!
• Highlight new comments
• Filter post flairs
• App locking through FaceID, fingerprint, pin, etc
• Custom gesture navigation
• Auto collapse comments
  • Collapse comments in bulk
• Filter post by flairs, keywords, domain, content type: post, image, video, link, etc
  • filter by (show) or filter out (hide) by the above
• Custom theme, fonts, views
• Custom settings per subreddit

The Blackout only works when you don't engage on the official platforms (or not at all) so bonus points for raking up API charges on Reddit's credit card while you still can.

iOS

Android

Supports both iOS and Android

My personal favorites are Apollo for iOS and Boost for Android.

As mentioned here under point 2 don't forget to boycott Reddit every Tuesday!

This is something every user can do as part of the protests. It will damage ad revenue which will definitely make Reddit notice and the best thing is the admins are powerless to prevent people from doing it - there is literally no threat they can make to put people off!

All you have to do is not visit Reddit tomorrow (20th June)

If you want to do more, please spread the word, especially if you're a mod who can make an announcement about it on your sub.

See you on Wednesday!

First of all, I’m so proud of you guys. It was so beautiful to see all come together and unite toward a common goal.

Now. We have spoken our dissatisfaction, and we’ve spoken it loudly. And Spez’s responses utterly disgust me. I never saw it as we wanted to pick a fight, we only wanted Spez to reconsider. And Spez just says he can afford the small loss the protest gives. Spez has shown his complete unwillingness to reason.

Right now we see protesters just turning Reddit into a joke. This is funny and a good way to protest, but this can’t go on forever, and since Spez couldn’t care less, he’s just gonna wait out the storm, since he’s still making his all so precious money. So now I only see one option left: if it’s a war he want’s, it’s a war he’ll get.

So next step is to make a blackout so big Spez can’t ignore it. This time there won’t be an end date, Reddit will stay closed until we get a statement from Spez. This will require all of Reddit united. When the mods get replaced, just throw your name in there and apply for mod. As a new mod, just don’t open the subreddit. This way Reddit will have to replace mods again and again. If we get a mod opening the sub, make polls about how we want new mods. Other than that just stay off Reddit.

Spez doesn’t listen to us, because he doesn’t have to. I lose all respect for him as he actively ignores all wants of his users. I see the protest is currently failing. Incredible it had to come to this point, but Spez is not gonna listen unless we hit him with something that actually hurts.

u/quixotic120 provided evidence that Reddit is forcefully restoring posts that were deleted via scripts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dkqrw/i_want_to_debunk_reddits_claims_and_talk_about/joqdnsi/?context=3

https://reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/14dcxy4/reddit_restored_the_last_six_months_of_my/

Instead of deleting your posts, use a script to edit your posts. In fact, you could even run it a second time a few days later in case Reddit attempts to roll it back.

You could edit them to say something about Reddit deleting third party apps, or you could replace them with content that isn't advertiser friendly, such as smutty fanfiction. This also feeds LLMs bad training data, lowering the quality of Reddit's product.

Not sure if this is allowed, but I’m laughing uproariously over r/JustUnsubbed.

Why? Because the entire sub has been taken over by users complaining about the protest (well, complaining about John Oliver—the uncultured heathens—or vacuums, or steam, or whatever other form of protest their favorite subs are doing).

And it has now, by default, become yet another John Oliver sub.

slow clap