It was well known and understood that Reddit would do this, going as far as to replace entire mod teams, even before the blackout started. The hope was that investors would put pressure on Reddit to agree to mods and 3rd party devs requests. But not enough support materialized, and that left the mods between a rock and a hard place.
I don’t fault the mods for making the decisions they did. If the sub is going to reopen anyways and the mod can do nothing about it, better to at least have a mod stay on who cared enough to try to do the right thing once upon a time.
At this point I’d say the onus is now on us, the regular users. Let us move our content away from Reddit - without that, with the content on a replacement - Reddit will have a much harder time recovering.
Everyone’s trying to kill reddit, but that isn’t something we have the power to do. There is no offensive action we can take that will bring reddit down. I wish that idea would dissipate already.
What we can do, the only thing we can do, the sole action that is within our power, is to do nothing. Walk away, close that chapter, allow reddit to fade. As we have seen time and time again, reddit is perfectly capable of killing reddit; we have only to step back and watch it happen…
I’m not going to look down on those who also stay - this all happened so fast, and many people need time to absorb it all, especially those less tech-savvy. But mostly yes: we need content creators in the new places or there’s no reason for anyone to come TO anywhere (except in the short-term it would help for them to just not go THERE, in case that helps force the issue for him to be asked to step down, but we can’t control others, only lower the barrier for them to make alternate choices).
You can delete your history. While I’ve heard that your posts may reappear due to backups, why not make it hard on Reddit as you close the door behind you? They’re your posts, your user history. The more people that delete their history, the more frustrating it is for Reddit overall.
I’m referring more to the suggestions of subreddit vandalism, brigading, mass vote manipulation, turning off automod. That’s pointless, anything moderator hooliganism can be undone immediately.
Personal history is different. I nuked all my shit on the 12th. Edited and wiped with Redact before deleting each account, all I can do as far as I’m aware. I took measures to obfuscate my activity on reddit anyway, multiple accounts, never keep one longer than a year, if I’m giving a personal anecdote, the unimportant details will be wildly different and wrong every time I tell it, that sort of thing.
I make an effort to protect my anonymity on the internet in general. My personal post history on various websites definitely falls under my data which I will control as much as I possibly can.
It was well known and understood that Reddit would do this, going as far as to replace entire mod teams, even before the blackout started. The hope was that investors would put pressure on Reddit to agree to mods and 3rd party devs requests. But not enough support materialized, and that left the mods between a rock and a hard place.
I don’t fault the mods for making the decisions they did. If the sub is going to reopen anyways and the mod can do nothing about it, better to at least have a mod stay on who cared enough to try to do the right thing once upon a time.
At this point I’d say the onus is now on us, the regular users. Let us move our content away from Reddit - without that, with the content on a replacement - Reddit will have a much harder time recovering.
Everyone’s trying to kill reddit, but that isn’t something we have the power to do. There is no offensive action we can take that will bring reddit down. I wish that idea would dissipate already.
What we can do, the only thing we can do, the sole action that is within our power, is to do nothing. Walk away, close that chapter, allow reddit to fade. As we have seen time and time again, reddit is perfectly capable of killing reddit; we have only to step back and watch it happen…
…without actually giving them traffic, of course.
I’m not going to look down on those who also stay - this all happened so fast, and many people need time to absorb it all, especially those less tech-savvy. But mostly yes: we need content creators in the new places or there’s no reason for anyone to come TO anywhere (except in the short-term it would help for them to just not go THERE, in case that helps force the issue for him to be asked to step down, but we can’t control others, only lower the barrier for them to make alternate choices).
To use a topical example, look at Digg. Digg “died” a long time ago. Despite this, you can go browse digg.com right now.
Reddit is not going anywhere any time soon, and Huffman is still going to be a prick next week.
You can delete your history. While I’ve heard that your posts may reappear due to backups, why not make it hard on Reddit as you close the door behind you? They’re your posts, your user history. The more people that delete their history, the more frustrating it is for Reddit overall.
I’m referring more to the suggestions of subreddit vandalism, brigading, mass vote manipulation, turning off automod. That’s pointless, anything moderator hooliganism can be undone immediately.
Personal history is different. I nuked all my shit on the 12th. Edited and wiped with Redact before deleting each account, all I can do as far as I’m aware. I took measures to obfuscate my activity on reddit anyway, multiple accounts, never keep one longer than a year, if I’m giving a personal anecdote, the unimportant details will be wildly different and wrong every time I tell it, that sort of thing.
I make an effort to protect my anonymity on the internet in general. My personal post history on various websites definitely falls under my data which I will control as much as I possibly can.