Reddit protest updates: news on the apps shutting down and Reddit’s fights with mods
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Reddit communities went dark to protest recent changes.

Here’s the list of highlights from the article, as it’s a good TL;DR:

  • The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark
  • How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
  • Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen
  • Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
  • Why disabled users joined the Reddit blackout
  • Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted
  • A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working
  • LvxferreOPM
    20·
    1 year ago

    there, now you’re all caught up

    Note how your quick summary skips a lot of information and views, that give people context on what happened. For example:

    • how power users were gaming the system, and that the userbase was already pissed, even before Digg v4;
    • what’s wrong with Digg v4, and why users hated it so much;
    • the pressures that caused v4 on first place;
    • the state of Reddit (and Twitter, and Facebook) when the Digg exodus happened;
    • how people organised that mass exodus off the platform;
    • how the news back then covered Digg’s downfall;
    • who’s Kevin Rose again? (I bet that plenty people don’t even know who Kevin Rose is, let alone his role on Digg.) etc.

    And yet it’s unreasonable to expect anyone to remember everything about the events. And we [people in general] shouldn’t even trust anyone in specific to begin with, because everyone [including you and me] is a bit biased and will cherry-pick a few details and ignore others. For that we’d need a central repository documenting the downfall of Digg, preferably from multiple users’ PoVs. I think that this is important, because better knowledge of the past allows us to guide better our future actions.

    Same deal here with Reddit.