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[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

The Verge posted the actual memo that was released, you can find that below and the article here

Hi Snoos,

Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.

We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.

There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.

While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.

I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.

Again, we’ll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.

To me, this looks like it was absolutely destined for a public release/intended leak. The victimisation says it all with them crying that their employees are going to get attacked. This is a simply absurd statement.

Any indicated statement from a CEO of a community forum that insinuates that their users, who are currently undergoing a completely peaceful protest, are in fact, volatile enough to attack employees simply doing their job has completely lost the plot. Their position as CEO is completely untenable.

Thanks Reddit for throwing extra wood on the fire. I was getting concerned that it wasn't raging enough.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Think I may just leave the subs I moderate down for longer, then.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Might as well leave them down indefinitely. I'm gonna block reddit at the DNS level, I'm done.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I blocked them at the DNS level too. Helps break the habit and avoids me accidently clicking on a reddit link.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This comment may also help.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for posting! This is wild. Internals are probably a disaster, to say the least.

like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well'

I hate this part so much. Corporate overlords be gone!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

He’s saying “we don’t need to listen to the community, they’ll get over it”. Again, completely tone deaf.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is just blatant "fuck your concerns it will blow over anyway".

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far

That's what it's all about.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah. This is literally a warning. Not that many users have actually stopped using reddit, it's such a force of habit.

But once their favorite apps, that all their muscle memory has become trained to use, stops working?

They'll be gone.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh boy, I hope this statement pisses off a lot of people and motivates them to extend the blackout. My only criticism of the blackout was that there was an end date, Reddit only has to wait it out temporarily in that case, but idk this statement is kinda ridiculous. I hope people take it as the spit in the face it is, who tf is getting violent over subreddits going private? no one, extend the blackout!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Imagine wearing Reddit merch in public space 💀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does the man not realize the absolute exodus the users are trying to warn him about? Blow over? Reddit will die overnight once people can't use their favorite third party apps anymore, or browse their porn subs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know the 80/20 rule, and that a big chunk of that 20 uses apps, but I’m not convinced. I thought the same thing about twitter when they killed off third party apps, and I ended up being the only one in my circle who moved to mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Twitter's first party app was never as hated as reddit's, was it?

On twitter you follow people, on reddit, you follow subjects. The latter you can move to another platform, even with just partial user migration. The former, not so much.

When you are held by your connection to other users, you're a lot more stuck to a platform. Reddit doesn't have that nearly to the same extent. I feel that's one of the critical mistakes the guy at the top is making.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.

Uh yeah, if you have to tell your staff not to wear their otherwise innocuously branded clothing for fear of getting the shit kicked out of them ... you might just be the problem here.