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

    Sorry for the extremely late reply!

    That’s one of the things that I’d like to address in the operation: that, at the end of the day, we’d be losing more information by leaving it in Reddit than if we simply razed the place.

    A few highlights:

    • Most Reddit content up to March/2023 is actually archived. It’s available, although not in a good way to browse.
    • People can - and should - migrate any quality content elsewhere. It could be to an alternative, or your own site/blog, it’s up to you. It’s your content.
    • The content will be eventually lost, as the company behind Reddit is exploiting its value for the sake of short-term profit, so the platform will eventually go down. Or at the very least the company might decide to “clean” older posters and comments there, to reduce data consumption (or other bullshit).

    But the biggest problem is: when you leave your content in the platform, other people are encouraged to contribute with it there, instead of doing it elsewhere. This new content will be also lost, once Reddit goes downhill. So by leaving your content there, in the long run, you’re making the internet less informative, not more! It’s a perverse incentive.

    (By the way, thank you for the well-thought comment. Honestly - you’re one of the few going deeper on the reasoning than just “no, it’ll ruin the internet!”, like I’ve seen in Reddit.)