Reddit Migration

I know it's not strictly relevant but god damn it what is it with people refusing to use the shift key?

The admin over at Beehaw does this too. It legitimately makes it hard to take them seriously.

Yeah, I know, who cares, right?

It's not about caring how people get lazy with their writing, I do it plenty. It's about, if you're going to make a public statement, maybe capitalize your sentences so they look professional? There are countless, simple ways to do it automatically on desktop.

Text of the post, for those who prefer not to give the traffic:

Greetings all,

We've started the protest this Monday, in solidarity with numerous people who need access to the API, including bot developers, people with accessibility needs (r/blind) and 3rd party app users (Apollo, Sync, and many more). r/humor in particular has made a great post regarding protesting in support of the blind people.

Despite numerous past policies and statements, in support of the mods' right to protest, we have witnessed many attempts this weeks to force subreddits to open (examples: 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).

In light of this, we recommend to all those supporting this cause that you take the following steps:

review other softer forms of protest (some of them mentioned here);

take appropriate measures to consult with your community;

decide on a course of action, that complies with the ever more draconian admin policies, but still helps send the message that reddit needs to do better on the list of our community demands.

Here is a short list of actions that many subs are already engaging in:

private days (example - Touch Grass Tuesdays, or on the weekends);

restricting the topic of the forum (example: restricting to just pictures or gifs of one personality );

narrowing the topic of your forum (see the example of r/Wellthatsucks;

widening the topic of your forum (see the example of r/interestingasfuck);

marking the subreddit temporarily NSFW or switching to allowing NSFW content. Changing this setting should not be taken lightly (it would be against the TOS); however, if content in your sub happens to also include "nudity, pornography, or profanity", please take appropriate steps to warn users, including temporarily marking your community as NSFW. This has the undesirable effect of reducing your community's reach and visibility but, per the Moderator Code of Conduct, it is our duty as moderators to ensure the safety of those viewing our content and provide appropriate warning to anyone who may incidentally view any mature content (see the example of r/Toyota)

linkedin campaign - commenting on the linkedin posts of reddit with info about this protest (demands, and how reddit admins punished protesting mods);

inform reddit advertisers of the current issues;

modifying image posts requirements (all image posts must include an album, and the first picture must be protest-related);

prepare moving the forum to another platform:

https://kbin.social/
https://join-lemmy.org/
https://squabbles.io/
https://tildes.net/;
promote reddit alternatives in the sidebar;

content as usual in an open sub, but the title includes protest language;

remove all sub rules and let the community curate content through up-/downvotes;

open sub and pin anti-staff message (list of unfulfilled promises, terrible decisions), and add to sidebar;

automod sticky on every thread promoting Reddit alternatives;

have automod make scheduled posts about the protest;

increase the age and karma posting requirements through automod;

turn off discovery settings, and popping up on r/all.

As usual:

do not allow or promote harassment of people or communities;

do not allow illegal content, or content that breaks TOS.

We have to work within the limits imposed by reddit, but there is still plenty of ways to get the message to reddit and mass media about the important issues of the protest, that will affect the quality of content on reddit, how people with disabilities can access the site and how mods can fulfill their duties.

Please post below forms of protest in which you engage, or other suggestions.

Favorite thing I’ve read all day aside from Father’s Day cards from my daughters.

It's not worth staying on at this point anyway. The people that remain are largely assholes. You can basically see the reason that protests don't work as a macrocosm, because most users now are just bitching that "wahh the blackout only hurts users". No different to people complaining about climate activists who block highways, or trans right activists who get blamed for "being too loud and annoying". Protests don't work when solidarity simply doesn't exist because most people are just selfish, short sighted idiots, and that's basically the userbase that remains over on Reddit at this point. I can't think of a good reason to stay and interact with those kinds of people.

There are also lots of apologetic mod posts that are like "we reopened because we don't want to lose all our hard work and be replaced by someone worse, that is not what's best for our community so we're reopening", the ignorance and arrogance of such statements is mind blowing lmao, but trust Reddit mods to not see the wood for the trees.