Awesome to see this getting some media coverage. I hope the writers strike ends in time for Oliver to be able to do a segment on his show about all this.
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One thing I wish these news sites would cover is that it’s not only the API changes that people are upset about.
This was just the straw that broke the camels back. It’s been a long time coming.
My personal gripes were:
- Corporate astroturfing (this is the #1 reason I left, the entire front-page just felt like r/hailcorporate but nobody is aware)
- Reddit official app served ads in the damn comment section
- Bots of many varieties. Karma farming bots. Politically motivated bots (especially on r/Canada)
- Mod abuse (r/antiwork for instance)
- Censorship (r/fencesitter for instance)
- The stupid NFTs being pushed
Also, the API situation will make it harder to moderate subs without the tools that were previously available
I also have heard complaints of people being unable to get away from those Jesus ads, which isn’t something I experienced due to ublock.
One of mine is that they created r/popular to be r/all without nsfw subreddits, but then later decided to remove them from r/all too. So r/all wasn’t all anymore. I actually liked seeing the occasional nsfw post in r/all. It felt less corporate that way.
The last thing was they’re refusal to implement an nsfl tag for gore, because they’d rather not acknowledge it existed to advertisers but also didn’t want to ban it for some reason. My hope is that at some point the lemmy devs will add this and it will be enforced by the instances, because I’m sure the gore is coming.
r/Art too
r/aww too!
And r/askHistorians
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