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.
I’m pretty good at English and would like to volunteer - but I do have one objection: Wouldn’t this be considered spam?
Sorry for the extremely late reply! I was getting errors 500 and 502 nonstop, plus the “loading” circle, so I couldn’t reply to you in time. (Lemmy admins were migrating servers IIRC.)
In the meantime I did the following:
and I’ve been spreading a bit of the word about this in Reddit. However I feel like both things are far from optimal, so if you want to contribute, feel free to mess around with them! (Or just suggest changes to me, up to you.)
In special I’m worried that both are too verbose for your typical Reddit user to read.
… You didn’t answer my question. Wouldn’t this be considered spam?
Sorry, you’re right; I didn’t*.
The content itself wouldn’t be spam. Spam is less about the message, and more about force-feeding it to an unwilling receiver. So as long as this is shared reasonably, it shouldn’t be spam.
*I thought that I did, but it was in an earlier attempt to reply to your post.
Understandable. However, a major point of the blackout is not using the site to make reddit’s usage go down. What about that?
The blackout will eventually go down. And usage will go up again, provided that nothing else happens. I believe that it’s what u/spez and Reddit Inc. are betting on. And they’re right - things will go back to what they used to be, unless users actively boycott the platform. At least before the initial public offering (IPO), when u/spez and the likes will leave Reddit with their pockets full of money, and the community be damned.
And that’s the basic idea behind both the picture and the text. At least for me - what about you?
Yes, it is; however the blackout will eventually whittle down. A lot of subreddits already reopened and, as time goes by, more and more will reopen. And ultimately the blackout’s effect on user activity in the site will be practically nothing.
(That doesn’t mean that the blackout was meaningless. Far from that - it shows that the community [specially the mods] are pissed with the situation, but still willing to dialogue. If only Reddit Inc. was able to dialogue too…)
And that’s why I’m proposing a few more extreme ways to address the situation. Things that Reddit Inc. can’t simply brush off and say “this is predicted, ignore it”. Like actively going against Reddit Inc.'s best interests (profit, profit, profit… ah, and profit too.)
What about you? What do you think that would be the best approach in this situation?