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In response to the disastrous Spez AMA, /r/Videos have announced that they will permanently shut down on 11th June, one day ahead of the planned blackout (old.reddit.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone, I’ll try to keep this short as I know there’s been a lot going on over the last few days. When we made our announcement last week, we intended to get Reddit's attention on a subject that our team found extremely concerning. /r/Videos is joining a larger coordinated protest and signing an open letter to the admins found here.

The announcement was of exceedingly high API prices which we all know was to intentionally kill 3rd party applications on reddit (Apollo, Reddit is Fun, Boost, Relay, etc.) Since that post several things have become clear; Reddit is not willing to listen to its users or the mod teams from many of its largest communities on this matter. Yesterday all major third-party Reddit apps announced that they would be shutting down on the 30th of June due to these changes. There were no negotiations and Reddit refused to extend the deadlines. The rug was pulled out from under them and by extension all of the users who rely on those tools to use reddit.

In addition to this, the AMA hosted by Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, which was intended to alleviate concerns held by many users about these issues, was nothing short of a collage of inappropriate responses. There are many things to take away from this AMA but here are the key points. Most disappointingly it appears that Reddit outright misconstrued the actions of Apollo's creator /u/iamthatis by saying that he threatened Reddit and leaked private phone calls, something done only to clear his name of another accusation.

So what’s happening? The TL;DR? Effective tomorrow (6/11/2023), /r/Videos will be restricting posting capabilities. Anything posted before the cut off date will likely be the final front page of our community before we go private indefinitely. In the unlikely scenario that Reddit ownership has a sudden change of heart and capitulates on their decisions we will reopen, but until that happens /r/Videos will stay closed. Many other communities have come to similar decisions and we support those who have decided to take a stand.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As someone who used to love r/selfhosted and all the stuff posted on there I'll have a look at hosting my own instance when I get the time to figure out how it all works.

I didn't even think about the privacy/tracking aspect. My Pihole isn't blocking anything and my Ublock isn't blocking anything. This is quite refreshing to see.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I have a pihole as well... So I totally get that. Getting Lemmy going wasn't terrible but the documentation has a lot of assumptions and lack of detail. Do the Ansible setup if you decide to do it. It did work and very easily however now I am having to figure out additional configuration now. I tried the manually docker install method and couldn't ever get it working but only tried a few hours.

Have any questions I'll try to help.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Everyone knows that docker requires at least 8 hours to clean up the 20 lines of json

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Lol. To be fair, docker was running fine. I was having issues with nginx proxy and ssl. Well at least, I think that's where my issue was... Haha.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

You can also check kbin as it has a nice UI and can connect with Lemmy as well