SNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit.

Reddit crushed its biggest protest ? They’ve never been in a worse position in the websites history. They’ve betrayed the community and made it clear that the only thing that matters is they get their bag. Fuck that. Reddit started with a community this size and blew up. Nothing is more telling than those YouTube videos showing the rise and fall of website popularity from the birth of the internet to now. The websites that were the titans of yesterday are ghost towns right now. Companies that at one time commanded near total control are barely fragments of their former glory if they even continue to exist at all.

What’s the long term plan you rejects, continue to shit on people and ignore their wishes? On a long enough timeline that will see your golden goose fall off the page and cease to be relevant.

Will Reddit go away? No. But I think you’ll see it’s market share continue to fall as people shift away to better options provided by people that aren’t douche bags.

wtf is going on over there

Odds are that Reddit noticed that the overall quality and diversity of its content decreased, since almost nobody with a functional brain contributes with it nowadays. That's what I believe to be the reason for the AI porn carveout - to explicitly tell people "hey, it's fine to post AI porn here~ please post it~ as long as it doesn't depict real humans, it's fine~".

I think that it'll backfire; SFW AI pics are often crap and extremely generic, and odds are that the porn AI pics are the same. They'll just further bury the content that people actually want to see.

What I'm interested the most is however on the side note of the article:

Speaking of Rule 4, it got an adjustment today as well: “Do not share content depicting or promoting neglect, physical, or emotional abuse against minors.” Minor abuse is a brand-new category of depiction that Reddit doesn’t tolerate.

Rules in Reddit are almost never enforced for their own sake. There's only Rule Zero ("don't prevent our profit"), everything else is just an excuse for that that may or may not be enforced depending on Reddit Inc.'s goals. It gets worse because those rules are often evoked in situations that have jack shit to do with them; like, a poster says "Alice told Bob to kill himself" and the poster gets banned for encouraging harm. (Yup, it's that dumb.)

So this carveout makes me ask, which demographic is Reddit trying to get rid of, and how do they conflict with Reddit Inc.'s profit? I have no idea.

The only thing that has been crushed is reddits credibility. Soon it's gonna be the new facebook. Entirely irrelevant for any kind of recent internet culture or informational content.

Spez telling us what his kink is, without telling us what his kink is.

This sounds like it’s just a clarification on the rules no? Does anything actually change?