Reddit

I still browse the subreddit for whichever game I'm into on my phone browser and old.reddit is a must, I can't stand the different style sheets. I remember it was gonna get ended but hadn't heard about it in a while. Anyone know if that's gone now?

I saw a post about someone making a "controversial" opinion (their words) about liking a game everybody fell in love with. It was a well-known, widely loved, and highly praised videogame that is very good (fires of rubicon). Then, a few hours later, after we called them out on it, they deleted the post.

 I͏ m͏a͏d͏e͏ a͏ p͏o͏s͏t͏ i͏n͏ m͏y͏ c͏o͏u͏n͏t͏r͏y͏'s͏ s͏u͏b͏r͏e͏d͏d͏i͏t͏ about a͏ r͏e͏c͏e͏n͏t͏ s͏c͏a͏m͏m͏e͏r͏; m͏o͏d͏e͏r͏a͏t͏o͏r͏s͏ i͏n͏ m͏y͏ c͏o͏u͏n͏t͏r͏y͏'s͏ s͏u͏b͏ d͏i͏d͏n͏'t͏ l͏i͏k͏e͏ t͏h͏a͏t͏ a͏n͏d͏ d͏e͏l͏e͏t͏e͏d͏ i͏t͏, s͏o͏ I͏ d͏e͏l͏e͏t͏e͏d͏ i͏t͏. A͏ f͏e͏w͏ h͏o͏u͏r͏s͏ l͏a͏t͏e͏r͏, m͏y͏ p͏o͏s͏t͏ w͏a͏s͏ r͏e͏m͏o͏v͏e͏d͏ b͏y͏ R͏e͏d͏d͏i͏t͏ a͏n͏d͏ g͏o͏t͏ b͏a͏n͏n͏e͏d͏ f͏o͏r͏ "d͏o͏i͏n͏g͏ i͏l͏l͏e͏g͏a͏l͏ t͏r͏a͏n͏s͏a͏c͏t͏i͏o͏n͏s͏." I͏ a͏p͏p͏e͏a͏l͏e͏d͏; t͏h͏e͏y͏ r͏e͏a͏l͏i͏z͏e͏d͏ i͏t͏ w͏a͏s͏ a͏ m͏i͏s͏t͏a͏k͏e͏ a͏n͏d͏ u͏n͏b͏a͏n͏n͏e͏d͏ m͏e͏ r͏i͏g͏h͏t͏ a͏f͏t͏e͏r͏ t͏h͏a͏t͏. M͏y͏ p͏o͏s͏t͏ w͏a͏s͏ "r͏e͏m͏o͏v͏e͏d͏ a͏g͏a͏i͏n͏," t͏h͏i͏s͏ t͏i͏m͏e͏ f͏o͏r͏ "s͏h͏a͏r͏i͏n͏g͏ p͏e͏r͏s͏o͏n͏a͏l͏ I͏n͏f͏o͏." I͏t͏ w͏a͏s͏ a͏l͏r͏e͏a͏d͏y͏ d͏e͏l͏e͏t͏e͏d͏, a͏n͏d͏ I͏ g͏o͏t͏ a͏ w͏a͏r͏n͏i͏n͏g͏ o͏v͏e͏r͏ i͏t͏ e͏v͏e͏n͏ t͏h͏o͏u͏g͏h͏ t͏h͏a͏t͏ w͏a͏s͏n͏'t͏ p͏r͏i͏v͏a͏t͏e͏ i͏n͏f͏o͏, a͏n͏d͏ t͏h͏e͏y͏ t͏o͏l͏d͏ m͏e͏ n͏o͏t͏ t͏o͏ r͏e͏p͏e͏a͏t͏ i͏t͏ a͏g͏a͏i͏n͏ a͏n͏y͏w͏a͏y͏. A͏ w͏h͏i͏l͏e͏ a͏f͏t͏e͏r͏ t͏h͏a͏t͏, I͏ g͏o͏t͏ a͏ b͏a͏n͏ o͏v͏e͏r͏ t͏h͏a͏t͏ s͏a͏m͏e͏ p͏o͏s͏t͏ a͏g͏a͏i͏n͏ f͏o͏r͏ p͏r͏i͏v͏a͏c͏y͏ v͏i͏o͏l͏a͏t͏i͏o͏n͏. I͏ a͏p͏p͏e͏a͏l͏e͏d͏, a͏n͏d͏ t͏h͏e͏y͏ r͏e͏f͏u͏s͏e͏d͏ b͏e͏c͏a͏u͏s͏e͏ I͏ s͏h͏a͏r͏e͏d͏ "p͏e͏r͏s͏o͏n͏a͏l͏ i͏n͏f͏o͏," e͏v͏e͏n͏ t͏h͏o͏u͏g͏h͏ a͏l͏l͏ I͏ m͏e͏n͏t͏i͏o͏n͏e͏d͏ w͏a͏s͏ p͏u͏b͏l͏i͏c͏ k͏n͏o͏w͏l͏e͏d͏g͏e͏ in t͏h͏e͏ a͏b͏o͏u͏t͏ s͏e͏c͏t͏i͏o͏n͏ O͏f͏ t͏h͏e͏ s͏c͏a͏m͏m͏e͏r͏'s͏ F͏a͏c͏e͏b͏o͏o͏k͏ p͏a͏g͏e͏ also multiple articles about his arrest a͏n͏d͏ h͏i͏s͏ a͏l͏i͏a͏s͏ n͏a͏m͏e͏. N͏o͏w͏ t͏h͏e͏y͏ r͏e͏f͏u͏s͏e͏ t͏o͏ e͏v͏e͏n͏ r͏e͏p͏l͏y͏ t͏o͏ m͏y͏ a͏p͏p͏e͏a͏l͏.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19466667

Money, Mods, and Mayhem

The Turning Point

In 2024, Reddit is a far cry from its scrappy startup roots. With over 430 million monthly active users and more than 100,000 active communities, it's a social media giant. But with great power comes great responsibility, and Reddit is learning this lesson the hard way.

The turning point came in June 2023 when Reddit announced changes to its API pricing. For the uninitiated, API stands for Application Programming Interface, and it's basically the secret sauce that allows third-party apps to interact with Reddit. The new pricing model threatened to kill off popular third-party apps like Apollo, whose developer Christian Selig didn't mince words: "Reddit's API changes are not just unfair, they're unsustainable for third-party apps."

Over 8,000 subreddits went dark in protest.

The blackout should have reminded Reddit’s overlords of a crucial fact: Reddit’s success was built on the backs of its users. The platform had cultivated a sense of ownership among its community, and now that community was biting back.

One moderator summed it up perfectly: “We’re the ones who keep this site running, and we’re being ignored.” 

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1f6g7f6/dallas_police_officer_executed_in_targeted_attack/

Some of the new Reddit mods are so toxic. Instead of apologizing for the bot being too harsh and reinstating my submission, they just banned me because I dared to ask what exactly I didn't "punctuate correctly".

Just in case anyone here was wondering how Reddit's numbers are looking these days...

Data and visuals from https://subredditstats.com/r/askreddit

What could go wrong?

https://hivemoderation.com/

This website lists reddit as a customer.

Just curious what the hive mind over there is thinking. I used to lurk Reddit before I switched to Lemmy during the mass exodus.

I’ve really just been getting most of my news from Lemmy these days and not paying much attention to MSM. Obviously the things I’m reading here sounds like Isreal is commuting war crimes with their amped up response from the original attack.

Curious if there’s any kind of divide on Reddit regarding the conflict.

Bro have you considered that starving to death is actually okay?

I used to be a lot on r/travel. Back then there were posts with pictures that had upvote ls in the triple to quadruple digit range. There were also user questions, usually in the double digits.

Now the majority is just discussions that mysteriously have thousands of upvotes. And some of them quite boring. That must be bots or fakes directly by reddit. No way this happens naturally.

Is this common practice now or is that something r/travel did specifically?

This is the third attempt they’ve made to work with that guy that actually got routed to me because their salespeople don’t do their due diligence. Shocking.

Edit; a little extra context: I have an email alias on a domain similar to one he might use, and regularly receive email addressed to him. Reddit marketing folks reached out in a less cookie cutter manner a couple times last year, this is more of a mailing list outreach attempt.