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With the way Spez keeps trying to gamify Reddit, it's starting to feel like he's trying to make a super corporate remake of OMGPop/I'm In Like With You, for those who happen to remember that short-lived social/gaming platform. The addition of all sorts of new currencies on Reddit and stupid things to spend them on, and the more interactive things they've been doing like leaning more heavily into /r/place, all make me suspect that they're going to try to make Reddit into a sort of gaming hub with a vague social media aspect to it. I wanted OMGPop to make a comeback, but this isn't how I wanted it. :( [\#reddit](https://kbin.social/tag/reddit)
Here's the link: [https://www.reddit.com/r/place/?screenmode=fullscreen&cx=804&cy=199&px=232](https://www.reddit.com/r/place/?screenmode=fullscreen&cx=804&cy=199&px=232) Fill the whole place with Fuck Spez, go nuts!
I haven't used it for weeks and I'm wondering how low the quality of the content on that site has gotten.
www.wired.com
Subreddits and third-party apps are going dark in response to Reddit’s proposed API changes. It’s the latest front in a labor battle between algorithms and the humans who feed them.
I've seen a lot of sites come and go, some of which are still around, but the biggest change I saw was the end to MSN Groups...And boy, that was definitely something. Lost a lot of people I used to talk with often, and a whole host of information that is just gone. However, having seen what became of reddit...well, I'm not too sad to say goodbye to it. Another (be it Lemmy, kbin, mastodon, what have you) will come around...At least I hope the information keeps being rewrit/improved upon, heh. (Note: I'm not exactly sure if *Article* was the best choice to post this, but meh, it's what I used).
www.pcgamer.com
The Minecraft subreddit won't be a source for official Mojang communications going forward due to spez's idiocy and the API changes.
> > > Reddit didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. According to Rathschmidt, “We’ll no longer comment on hearsay, unsubstantiated claims, or baseless accusations from The Verge. We’ll be in touch as corrections are needed.” > > [Source](https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/23/23771396/reddit-subreddit-community-transcribers-accessibility) I guess they are no longer content with just talking down to Reddit mods and users but now must go after news organizations that continue to bring up their misdeeds.
Thanks for setting this up for us. I've bookmarked it so I can come back and get more familiar with it. For now, I'm focused on making SaidIt work for us, FINALLY (I think) I figured out how to create a private chat for the mods - which we need more than ever now because reddit is doing all these chat updates and mod chats have disappeared for many of us, not to mention the reddit bot that was added as a member before the chats disappeared. [\#reddit](https://kbin.social/tag/reddit)
View on Libreddit, an alternative private front-end to Reddit.
Reports coming on from Reddit mods that they're being removed from moderator positions, and having their accounts logged out and blocked. r/TIHI and r/interestingasfuck have been nuked, presumably more to follow Spez is having his final spaz attack
www.theguardian.com
The social network is changing how it works with third parties – but some argue that a push for profit could bring a wave of misinformation
Concerned researchers of user-generated content might want to avoid using, citing, or quoting sensitive content likely to be deleted by their authors, even when pseudonymous or using one-time “throwaway” accounts. At Reddit, how many authors actually delete their submissions, why, and are they concerned if their deletion end up elsewhere? I analyze the three most popular sensitive-topic subreddits (r/Advice, r/AmItheAsshole, and r/relationship\_advice) and show that deleting submissions is common. Roughly half of submissions are deleted by their users, most within the first day and week. Interviews with 30 Redditors reveal that their motives for deletion include ensuring the “Internet doesn’t see them,” especially those who might “see it on my Reddit profile,” deciding their issue was resolved, receiving unhelpful or aggressive comments, and concluding their submission was no longer relevant. Most interviewees were not overly concerned about deleted submissions persisting elsewhere (e.g., social media, archives, and datasets) as long as it is not easily connected to their other activity or identity.
www.bbc.com
Some of the biggest subreddits are now only allowing posts featuring the British comedian.
www.theverge.com
“All posts must be images of John Oliver looking sexy.”
It is depressing every time I hear [#Reddit](https://kbin.social/tag/Reddit) 's CEO setting up a divide-and-conquer policy for the moderators. It is true that human beings need to make money to survive in society, but it seems that people lose their own humanity when they try to gain uncontrollable amounts of money.
It is the weekend, and no one likes working on the weekend… but Reddit seems to have no issue making their teams do it.
www.techdirt.com
Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. After his disastrous AMA helped inspire more subreddits to join a 48 hour blackout, and his dismissal of the protesting subred…
Let's beat Reddit
[Here have some spam from Reddit](https://i.imgur.com/zSMelk8.mp4), now this place feels more at home, doesn't it? The bad points, way outnumber the good at Reddit.
Reddit has told r/pics mods to open the sub, and to be the sub their users want it to be. So they ran a user poll. By overwhelming mandate, r/pics is now a sub for pics of John Oliver looking sexy. [https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14b2a6q/poll\_decide\_on\_the\_future\_of\_rpics/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14b2a6q/poll_decide_on_the_future_of_rpics/)
www.reuters.com
Reddit is used to brawls between its 57 million daily users. Now its keyboard warriors are directing their ire at its CEO, Steve Huffman. Thousands of moderators overseeing the site’s so-called subreddits are on strike. It’s a wrinkle in Reddit’s plan to go public, and a sign that plan is premature.
All of these "we should stop trying to be Reddit and just be kbin and stop talking about Reddit" posts reminds me of all of the "we should stop trying to be Twitter and just be Mastodon and stop talking about Twitter" posts a few months ago. [\#reddit](https://kbin.social/tag/reddit)
Which is why /u/jailbaitlover I mean /u/spez is sending the message that they would gladly give total power to whatever mod crosses the picket line so they can boot the rest. If Reddit had to replace all these mods it would be complete chaos and is not much better than the blackout. They will see the same exact problems Twitter has seen since they fired most of their content moderators.
arstechnica.com
Ars spoke with community mods about where Reddit goes from here.
daringfireball.net
Link to: [https://sixcolors.com/link/2023/06/apollo-to-shut-down-developer-has-receipts/](https://sixcolors.com/link/2023/06/apollo-to-shut-down-developer-has-receipts/)
www.platformer.news
As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site’s self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it
Pretty bad timing by them to do this when people are about to stop using reddit
Hi all, am I the only one in this case? Accounts with names such as "Background-Clerk6473", "Historical-View4819", "First\_Solution\_4156"... Is there a general antispam bot that went online maybe? Cheers
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As of this posting 639/5279 subreddits are currently dark. Many more to go dark on June 12th.
An open source website to watch subreddits going dark
www.theverge.com
A lot of Reddit will go dark soon in protest of API changes