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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] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't imagine that Reddit has a deep bench of people who have the skills needed to moderate a sub with millions of users and are willing to do it for free

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tin foil hat stuff though: what if they intend to pay moderators they hold on thrall, but they need to get rid of the current ones first.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Spez just admitted they aren't profitable. I can't imagine they will pay new people when they could have paid the old mods

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

Unless he was lying about profits in some half baked attempt to look like the underdog against the big mean apps.

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

That would be really stupid considering they are going to IPO soon. Honestly I don't get why you would announce with such a weird combination of pride and snark that you are unprofitable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't be the first time a corporation says one thing to the public and the complete opposite to its shareholders.