Hey! This post is not specifically related to the lemmy.world instance. From now on, posts such as these will be removed, in order for the community to stay on topic. However, as this is a highly upvoted post, I’ll just lock it for now.
“Ok guys, if we take the site down they can’t have a blackout: It’s brilliant!”
-Spez probably
We did it, reddit!
…wait, fuck. Lemmy!
Thanks for your good punctuation.
we are reddit in some ways
We’re more reddit than reddit
Reddit 2.0
In all the ways that matter, the users and quality content are its heart. Take that away and it’s more like UnDeadit.
Lemmy for president!!
Who the fuck is Lemmy?
They’re likely changing the mod structure during the blackout. A lot of low-paid, repurposed bangladeshi click-farm mods coming in.
Reddit? Paying mods? As if.
They’ve gone 15 years not paying mods for their work. They’re not about to start now, especially if they’re concerned about costs.
Not paying mods gave them an out to not be a publisher.
If your company is the one doing the moderation, then you become responsible for what is on your website, and that means spez would have to get rid of the Nazis :(.
Replacing them all with automod
u/Spez-autoGPT joined to the thread.
Hopefully they culled his comments from before roughly 2014 or they’re gonna have a whole new problem on their hands.
That would not surprise me in the least.
Id bet their brand new API has a few horrible bugs or the system charging accounts is too slow for the real world.
Big brain move
Check. and. mate.
Google en peasant
I wonder if anarchychess has a community yet?
What is this reddit? i only know lemmy ;)
Lemmy is love
Lemmy is life
Readdit, never even heard it
Reddit really trying to copy lemmy now
Yeah, seems like a bunch of instances getting the ol’ death hug right now
Will save this when there’s c/AngryUpvote opens lol
i like how they said that the outage anticipated and expected yet, they didn’t prevent it only to try to fix it once it happened. totally healthy company behavior 👌
I’ve used rif and old.reddit respectively for so long that I really had no idea how much of a shitshow the ui had turned in too until I checked it out through the official app and new layout style in browser.
No fucking thank you, take your glitter shit and constant ad pushing and jump off a cliff.
The first ad that popped was a promoted post for machine gun kelly. I listen to grindcore, crossover, metal, etc… That sealed its fate in my eyes.
There was some kind of cookie consent popup on old.reddit.com and it said “go to the new reddit to set preferences” or something like that and i clicked it without reading properly and got sent to new reddit.
What a shit website… I will never use new reddit. Get fucked spez
I actually prefer when the ads are targeted but wrong. It shows me they don’t know me as well as they could. Also if I’m not interested they aren’t distracting
I used the official app but I have ADHD, which is basically targeted ad kryptonite. By the time they target something to me, I’ve moved on.
Yeah. I don’t mind ads if I’m getting content for free, but at least know your audience. I feel like especially the hegetsus spam was wildly misplaced on Reddit.
for years companies have been trying for “targeted ads” but in rare occasions I see ads, they’re terribly off the mark, like you have mentioned
Companies have been trying and succeeding with targeted ads*
There’s a reason a bunch of the biggest tech companies in the world’s main revenue is these ads, they absolutely work unfortunately.
You’d be surprised to hear, how many users are still clueless and don’t use an ad blocker.
More than half of the surfers don’t use an ad blocker: https://earthweb.com/how-many-people-use-ad-blockers/
Honestly that’s one of the things I’m stoked on about this, the fat gets trimmed. Leave all the clueless people with the loudest, uneducated opinions to sink on the redditanic.
Not related at all, but hear me out…lemmy needs a grind/extreme music community
I don’t even think most of their ads gets interacted often. The small amount of people who are using the official reddit app probably have gotten used to it now so will just wait this blackout out.
I think more people use the official app than you might think. I initially thought everyone was in unanimous outrage, but many just don’t care. I don’t understand how some people know about ad-free third party apps and still use the official one.
I used official app only because I had no idea the other apps existed until this month, lol
Because I was already using it since it first came out, and honestly the ads weren’t/aren’t even that big of a deal. I don’t even notice them 90% of the time.
Convenience. For the average user it’s just download from the play store and scroll. I agree that lot of people use the official app but they’re used to the ads from other social media apps too probably.
I mean… I downloaded a third party app from the play store. Isn’t that how you got yours too??
I mean yes, you can get third party apps on the Play Store (I got mine off F-Droid but that’s besides the point), but for most people, if they want to install “Reddit” on their phone, they’re gonna search for “Reddit,” and then when the first thing that pops up is the official app, they’ll install that, and never think twice about it.
Same here. I’ve been using old.reddit with RES and apollo for so long that I forgot reddit even had ads until I tried the official app.
Same, RiF + old. FTW TBH, really liking Lemmy ❤️
Good to know that Reddit can be killed for an entire afternoon any time the community wants by coordinating the use of basic site functions.
THE SYSTEM… IS DOWN THE SYSTEM… IS DOWN
Aggressive techno noises
Strong Bad at his finest
The Telltale series is leaving Steam soon. I don’t think there’s a delist date, but their license is expiring soon. I bought and gifted three copies already.
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Oh wow - presumably they won’t be sold anywhere else either?
Presumably. I looked into it to learn more and I found out the games were pulled from digital storefronts on June 1st. The brothers chaps appear to be remaking the Dangeresque point and click game, so rumors are that the Telltale games may also be headed for a remake.
The Cheat is grounded!
one of the few ringtones i still keep on my phone
While I was reading through this, I had a pop-up saying “report created”. I didn’t press anything to report; I only gave upvotes. So, apologies to who/what was reported. 😖
same thing happened to me on another post! Not sure what I clicked…
I think it’s ridiculous that it’s actually the sub blackout that killed Reddit today. How can this happen?
See TheVerge: “Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout”
Reddit has long survived with the help of pornography makers. Reddit does not face a quick death.
Makers and consumers. At one point an Admin, I think it was Alexis or Yashan, said straight up like 50% of reddit is porn. That was years ago though, and I’m sure they’ve done what they could to mitigate that.
🎼 The Internet is for porn 🎶
It’s my fault apparently
Always hated that image on the error page. Blaming the user when they are the ones that fucked up. Server errors are never the users fault
I think it’s pretty funny and I’m sure it’s just a joke. It’s hardly actually blaming users, imo.
how long was it? i heard about it earlier but when i checked it worked fine
About an hour.
Webpage is still down for me - ironically Boost for Reddit seems to work fine
Subreddit mods win. Fatality.
But do we know why it was down? If it was something like a ddos (or claimed to be) this could be used to vilify the protestors.
Our usage stats show that we have record low numbers of people using the site and at the same time we have too many people using the site.
If they are being completely honest, my guess is that the page that loads when a sub is private comes from a server that doesn’t typically get much load.
Then everything went private and suddenly that server was hugged to death.
This makes sense to me. I only came over to Lemmy because of the reddit API drama, and I’m pretty impressed with it so far! I’d love for it to grow, so I hope this is a death knell or sign of things to come for Reddit.
