This post has the rundown on what the protest is about. In brief, reddit is making 3rd party api calls prohibitively expensive. Beyond what this means for users, it affects the tools some mods use (at other, larger subreddits, not this one).
Should sneerclub join? If so, do we shut down for just two days, or indefinitely?
My view is I’m in favor of shutting down—which we’d do by making the subreddit private so it can’t be visited—for the two days. If the 14th comes and reddit has taken no action, this could be extended if others keep up the protest. But I didn’t want to unilaterally make the decision.
The sub overwhelmingly has gone one way, so we’ll join the protest.
Go for it. This website is basically unusable without a 3rd party app and old.reddit
Yes
Aka the reason they just realised “holy shit this is a goldmine”. Turns out elon was right, now that someone has a real use for that data it makes sense to lock the gate yesterday.
Remember, these guys were profitable 10 years ago but as soon as Huffman came back he did the classic 140 IQ silicon valley move and took out hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital debt to hire an unsustainable number of fresh grads, then tasked them with “make a new website” and ended up with a steaming pile of shit. Reason? He wanted to IPO his shares lol.
Even as someone that never uses third party apps or old.reddit, yeah, fuck em, join the protest. Reddit’s always been a gross org whose countless deficiencies I’ve minimized because I like a few subreddits, but if this is it, this is it.
Burn reddit down
I can’t use this site on my phone without rif. Burn reddit to the ground
Yes.
Solidarity is the core of all sneers
I say shut it down.
I say shut it down for a couple days.
We’re too small to make any impact but it shows solidarity with sending the message. And I think a couple days without Reddit might do some people some good - chill out and enjoy the end of spring.
damn. i hate when im reading through old stuff on reddit and in the middle of a sparkling, scintillating discussion i find someone has written over all her old comments with nonsense, fragmenting the discussion permanently. what hilarious, moving, romantic, haunting things could she have said? just to wash it all away, in this digital era of permanency? wow. that takes courage. i bet she was really cute, too
do it. stick it to the man
I intend to boycott Reddit entirely for those few days, so, yeah, absolutely.
sounds good to me, as both a user and a mod. resist enshittification.
Yes. I can’t be reduced to using Reddit’s first-party experiences if I am to continue sneering. Sir Basil and the House of Kooks will not stand Reddit’s treachery! To arms, I say!
How does this affect the acausalrobotgod’s plans?
Si
Nah, go for it. Fuck this place
Yes. F reddit. I can certainly survive two days (or more) without sneering
and my axe
I guess I’m in the extreme minority here. I have no strong affection or opinion about Reddit as an org, but I generally believe that organizations have a right to enforce access to their data, which includes charging for it. (It’s also not clear to me why Apollo and the like cannot simply pass the charges on to their users.) I don’t think it’s great that OpenAI scraped a bunch of data produced by others and now charges for access to it? Surely Wikipedia, Stack Overflow and Reddit should have gotten some money out of that rather than being played for dupes?
But whatever, shut down if you want, I don’t really care.
I’m on the fence. I am 100% for accessibility and people being able to access the site comfortably in their own ways. But I’m also 100% for anything that hurts Reddit.
Close it indefinitely. Deadlined “strikes” like this don’t usually work.
yes
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Yeah, I miss Pushshift.
No