Dude this article gives me work PTSD. I hate working for CEOs and stupid fucking managers. Open source forever.
Did he just try to make it sound like Reddit employees are victims of hate crimes?? LMAO
I mean that was probably good advice tbh
It 100% is. As a customer service manager for a software company, I can say - you wouldn’t believe some of the threats we get, just while operating normally, and people are pissed about this.
We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.
There’s your answer on how it’s affecting reddit. May be it’s spez just blushing, but I hope this is a wake up call for the two day blackout subs and they do it indefinitely.
Idk how this is possible either, almost every sub I subscribe to is black, why would that not impact rev?
Two days isn’t significant enough to register as a real change. Especially since I assume most advertisers have ongoing contracts based on longer periods.
If you want to see an actual revenue impact, the blackout has to go long enough that advertisers have time to start scaling back or even withdrawing from the platform.
If everyone who’s not using reddit was already using a 3P ad free app, it’s possible they’re saving money on bandwidth while still serving the same number of ads
Well, considering the phone calls with the apollo dev, his trustworthiness is already shot. I would be very surprised if this didn’t affect revenue seeing how there’s thousands of people not buying awards now. That’s not even getting into ad views.
Due to his untrustworthy behavior, I can’t say I’d be surprised if he leaked the memo himself, purposely including the deflection of revenue not being impacted or such.
Sounds a bit conspiracy theorist, but I would certainly be unsurprised.
My desire to open Reddit compulsively “will pass” too.
I deleted the app and removed it from my browser home screen. I noticed I was still habitually clicking on the icon when I opened Firefox.
While he’s probably right, the blackout is giving Reddit users the chance to return to old sources of news and entertainment, or encouraging them to try new communities like Lemmy. Ideally the blackouts continue, but I think the biggest threat to Reddit is a long-game when other alternatives become viable.
I’ve been using beehaw, but more important Feedly (RSS) because:
I can subscribe to YouTube channels, Reddit/Lemmy communities, and independent websites. That’s all my stuff in one place!
It’s algorithmically ranked, but I control the algorithm.
I can get to “inbox zero” and don’t re-see stuff I already read. No more doom scrolling.
I’ve love rss. I’m using feeder. I’ve ditched a lot of the things I use to go on like Twitter and Reddit. I’m mostly on discord, but that’s dwindling.
Reddit black out needs to keep going. Reddit communities should move to Lemmy or kbin. All reddit communities are self moderated by the people who love their selective communities.
There is no need to scum to a company that cares more about making a buck than to the people that make reddit, reddit.
Lemmy is the new reddit.
Still hoping all the mobile developers come together and make a competitor. I like Lemmy but hard to beat how Reddit is structured and the size of the communities is an advantage. Also wouldn’t mind seeing Reddit’s public offering be a disaster.
Not sure if you typically browse on mobile and have an Android, by I’m using an app called Jerboa that has a very similar feel to some of the 3rd party Reddit apps. So far, so good 👍
Yes Christian should take apollos code and make it fediverse ASAP
https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/tree/main/tafkars-lemmy
^^this is what you’re looking for!
unfortunately yes the blackout will eventually pass … right now i think the only question is at what cost to reddit?
curious what the zeitgeist would be if the vc or fidelity made soez step down, which replaces him and to what net effect?
seeing his credibility is completely shot publicly, is this at all worthy of putting on the table?
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Oh! So, Spez is asking for more? Ok then.
Goes without saying the CEO really fucked this whole situation. I never would have sought out an alternative to Reddit if he hadn’t decided to start all this API nonsense. But hey, in a way I’m glad he did. I never would have found lemmy otherwise. As a fan of open source material myself, I’d rather be here anyway.
Never commented much on Reddit, but I plan to be active here as much as possible. I want to see this community grow!
Unbelievable how out of touch they are with the community.
Tone deaf I see
Looking at the Blackout Tracker it seems a few subs have folded early - r/adviceanimals and r/travel being the largest. Also the news subs and random ones like r/movies or r/photoshopbattles never joined in - were they not on board of their own choice, or controlled from on high?
This doesn’t surprise me, during the whole process they didn’t even try to pretend that they were listening.
The thing that really gets me is how poorly they communicated: slandering the Apollo dev, ignoring mod’s concerns, lying, not giving enough notice, and having the audacity to hold an “AMA” but answer basically none of the questions.
Like if you’re going to go through with this change at the bear minimum you could be professional about it. But they way they did it was very arrogant and impatient.
so will Reddit
