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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2 (beehaw.org)
submitted 3 years ago by [M] to c/technology@beehaw.org
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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] 8 points 3 years ago (14 children)

I'm glad to see there's been more of a push for previously '48 hours only' subreddits to move to an indefinite blackout - but I wish that more of them had committed earlier. That leaked internal email shows exactly what I already expected; they just see the protesting Redditors as a bunch of whiny babies who they expect to give up after a couple days and forget the whole thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    there are also a lot of subreddits that went readonly. which doesn't hurt much. when the first google result for something is a functional readonly reddit page, reddit has succeeded. When the first result I click is a message about the issue we're facing that is much worse for reddit.

    At the same time, the couple of subs posting the images and only the images are causing /r/all to have some anti-reddit commentary.

    Either way, r/all doesnt look that different. Ok, normal-reddit-for-thing isnt on the front page, instead smaller-reddit-for-thing is there.

    I'm sure moderators will plan more, but I think it's going to be difficult to maintain coordination and whether I like it or not, I get reddits approach to just ignore this.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    hang on, what leaked internal email, do you know where I can find that?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (9 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    i want to call complete BS on them making it out like the Redditors protesting would physically assault the staff. Guess that’s probably a reasonable thing now though. People are whacked in the head.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I thought that was quite an escalation also. But maybe their health & safety committee reccomended it. Probably just trying to make the workers feel embattled and unsafe so they would avoid engaging with the issues and stay to reddits side. Its a PUA kind of doublespeak; spez is the one actually making the threat. But in a way it seems to come from us.

    To be a fly on the wall at the water cooler. Please reddit workers, leak a zoom call.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I wonder if things are as tense as was shown in that video from reddit HQ.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    was hovering over the link like "is this going to be a rick roll or something?"

    so I click it and YES this is literally what I was imagining. not the rick roll, the previous comment. fucking brilliant. in the comments it says it is the last post to /r/videos

    a lot of people mentioning ./ and digg here. on ./ there was this "first post" joke. it was very boring even at that time IMHO. but now is the moment to be thinking about "last post" if you are a person who has "last post" powers.

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