June 15th will drop by, and everyone will notice what most people here already know: that Reddit is hopeless, and it’s showing its middle finger to the community.

Based on that, I was thinking about releasing an infographic, telling people what’s going on, and asking them to replace their Reddit content with gibberish. And I’m wondering if more people want to join this.

What do you guys think about this? Would anyone here be willing to contribute?

The infographic would list no authorship. It would be, for all intents and purposes, public domain. The only thing that you’d get in return is the warm feeling that you made internet better, by helping to kill Reddit.

The format is up to debate, but I was thinking about:

It’s a picture so it’s easier to share; split into sections that can be read in any order that you want (or you can ignore a few of them).

In special, I’d like help of people who write stuff well. I’m pedantic, verbose, an L3 speaker prone to “then who was phone?” grammar, and I genuinely think that plenty people could do better than I can in this aspect.

I also believe that a collective effort from a bunch of people will be probably better than just a single person doing it alone.

  • LvxferreOPM
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    1 year ago

    A few sections that I’ve already thought about:

    1. What’s going on? - to provide context on why someone would want to do this.
    2. Tutorial - the core of the thing, explaining how to replace your Reddit content with gibberish.
    3. Why should we do this? - explaining why this would be the best approach (reducing the value of the platform for LLM + discouraging new users to settle in)
    4. Alternatives - a rather large list of alternatives for Redditors to migrate to.
    5. Why the API price changes? - TL;DR: to kill third party apps + profit from businesses wanting the data for LLM)
    6. Why firing spez is not enough? - TL;DR because the whole company is rotten
    7. About the loss of info - addressing the potential loss of information to the internet, in a honest way (nobody here is a spez, right?), telling users how to mitigate it (migrate the info) and why it’s still better in the long run;
    8. Links - a list of links as sources / “to learn more” and stuff like this;
    9. Vocab - Small dictionary for terms used across the text, that Reddit users might not be informed about.

    Those sections are up to debate, as anything else, in case anyone is wanting to join the operation.