This is actually hilarious and I love the creativity and malicious compliance here. It’s also a shame the admins response to this whole thing. They’re trying to claim that this whole thing is just a small group of moderates power tripping when in reality many of the subs held polls to go dark or continue protests. Before this all went down I saw a ton of people saying they should go dark indefinitely in many many subreddits.
Huffman is full of lies and bullshit and that’s the real reason people have so much backlash at this point
Reddit comments seem full of Huffman bootlickers now who are claiming that there was no community support for protests and that the companies actions are fair and justified. I don’t know what the facts are but every single poll on every sub I seen on the topic was decisively in favour of action.
I can’t understand why some people are so proudly apathetic, or reactionary when there’s some sort of dissent.
Yeah I think its the same issue Twitter is having right now. All of the bootlickers are being elevated above the rest of the conversation. Could be 2 fold apathy in terms of lurkers not wanting to participate in the conversation leaving all the air for the mouth breathers, or bots. Or a combination of both.
I can’t understand why some people are so proudly apathetic, or reactionary when there’s some sort of dissent.
There will always be people who are afraid of changes and only like to live under the statu quo. It happens everywhere and it happened all the time.
I’ve seen people coming out of the woodworks into subs they don’t even engage in just to spam comments about how no one supported the community joining the blackout. The sub voted. And granted there were only 3k votes to 1M subscribed, but given that the poll was available for a while and anyone who regularly engaged in the community would see it, I dont see how someone who is that much of an outsider should matter more.
I keep seeing the quote “the API wasn’t designed to support these clients” and it always makes me wonder… What exactly does he think an API is FOR? As far as I’ve ever seen, APIs are specifically for outside connectivity. If you’re working with internal code then you simply make your own hooks as needed. Even an app could use hooks not available to the public. And if the API is NOT designed for this type of usage, then why would anyone want to PAY to use it? He keeps saying he wants to make reddit profitable, and yet he’s telling the world that the API isn’t fit for usage? None of it makes any sense.
Their website and application also use API, not always the same as the one used by third party apps, but usually API on default is used internally, which is why there’s a distinction of Public API and Internal API
But still… they released a public API and then complained that the public is using it?
I see some Youtube influencers saying the strike has failed. Looking at the front page it seems really screwed up still. Plus the website is going to be chaos if even a small percentage decide to troll.
Yeah, I think people are saying anything short of all 12 million or whatever the number of users is switching over is a fail, but I don’t see it that way. The real failure is if reddit is put on a trajectory of degradation, and is never able to monetize. I feel like that is definitely happening.
Espeecially if that small percentage are the mods and power users.
Lurkers don’t matter much here.
There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
You simply can’t win against the internet in a trolling contest
r/HarryPotter missed a chance to only allow pictures of hairy people operating a Potter’s wheel.
r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners
