Reddit takes control of popular subreddit that protested API changes | Engadget
Reddit takes control of popular subreddit that protested API changes | Engadget
As it promised, Reddit has been taking over control of subreddits that shut down to protest changes to the platform's API.
For those wondering, it’s r/malefashionadvice
Ok so no big loss
It’s ridiculous to me that there are still people volunteering to moderate, Reddit had such a good deal with running mostly on free labor that is satisfied with some scraps here and there.
And what do they do? Turn the people who are sustaining their business and ask for nothing in return hostile towards them over some penny pinching.
I was surprised as well but after watching some streamers doing r/place I learned that there are quite a lot of users who never used 3rd party apps and weren't really touched by all the protests... The amount of questions "who is u/Spez" in the chat was also quite high. So they might have driven away a large chunk of the power users. But the remaining and the regular users are enough to keep it running I guess. As sad as this is.
Yes, user-wise this won’t really negatively impact Reddit this is why I called it penny pinching, they weren’t losing out on huge amounts of money with the 3rd party apps. What I was mostly referring to is that moderators are frequently power users who either used 3rd party apps personally or used them because the moderator tools inside of them were way better than Reddit's native ones.
I had a friend of a friend who worked at Wizards of the Coast, and it's a revolving door there. There's no shortage of people eager to work on games that mean so much to them, so it's easy to abuser workers and cut the loose if there's any hint that they might start demanding better treatment, or a better direction for the brands, or especially organizing and collectively bargaining.
It's kind of the same thing here. There's no shortage of servile users eager to be scabs. It's going to lead to stifling and unpleasant communities in the long run, but they don't really care. So long as they can slow down the appearance of enshittification, and keep reddit.com from being full of reasons why the site is a bad investment, they can cash out in the IPO and leave investors holding the bag.
Loved that subreddit, sad to see it go.
Which one ?
/r/malefashionadvice, 5.4 million subscribers
Bit off-topic, but that sub has always been a prime example of why the argumentum ad populum is a logical fallacy.
Very popular, very bland, inoffensive, boring and vanilla 'fashion'.
I mean, better than walking around in 90s basketball shorts, but if I was forced to dress like someone in the GAP catalogue, I'd feel dead inside.
That's not 'fashion'. That's a smart casual uniform for an office world that is dying post-covid, and for men who primarily want to avoid being noticed for the way they dress.
People who worry about the colour of their belt and shoes not following arbitrary rules, because they're children pretending to be adults, rather than adults who buy and wear clothes that they think look nice and make them look nice, and have run out of fucks to give because they're men not boys.
This comment is far too harsh, I'm being deliberately hyperbolic.