Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.
We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.
There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.
While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.
I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.
Again, we’ll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.
Edit to include source: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/13/reddit-ceo-blackouts-no-revenue-impact/
Wherever Aaron is, I hope he can’t see this.
You know you’re doing the right thing when you have to instruct your employees not to wear your brand to avoid confrontation.
That little quip at the end implying that they could be targeted in public over this, with the intention to have journalists write as if we are flying off the handle.
This isn’t Rick & Morty’s szechuan sauce crowd, these are the moderators and content creators of the website. We are peacefully protesting his poor conduct.
The worst that’s happened is that he’s had some memes made about him and himself alone.
I do miss the niche communities and educational ones on Reddit, but Lemmy is great so far.
“We absolutely must ship what we said we would.”
Oh wow he’s actually scared
He’s scared of whoever he is shipping to, not reddit users.
True, but I still want to take it with stride that he’s acknowledging there’s something to lose. I don’t think the ship can be necessarily saved (because of the all powerful shareholder), and that sucks. But I am feeling a small amount of schadenfreude for the situation.
Its better we stop depending on the single points of failure anyway. The psychopaths will always do whatever they want in the name of the shareholder - even when its not true.
True that :(
I’m sure many will go back to Reddit but some wont. I for one will be staying on Lemmy as I’ve found it a breath of fresh air.
Same! The mood here reminds me of the good old days when everyone on Reddit wasn’t a cynical asshole.
Jerboa is already a better app than Reddit’s official app, so I’m quite happy to give the Lemmy and Jerboa devs time to iron out the kinks.
God why is everyone on reddit a cynical asshole?
It’s a reflection of society as a whole, unfortunately.
You got a point there. You can tell by all the terrible choices large® companies are making, with the most recent being Reddit itself.
I think I’ll comment here but mainly lurk there at times. It’s still good if I’m looking for something that has to do with my hobbies, unless this booms than that will change things.
I’m so glad to not see ads all over the place. I’m also glad to not see low-level top comments; so far the conversations have been of higher quality, they’re more thought-out. I haven’t been back to Reddit since Monday, and although it’s been a learning curve and a little tough without the amount of content, I’m enjoying lemmy quite a bit.
I’m in the same club as you…better quality content here as I’m figuring out Lemmy and Jerboa too. No more Reddit
Same here. This morning I’ve removed my ten years worth of content from Reddit as I don’t want them to even generate the slightest bit of revenue from it, removed my account and do not feel bad about it in the slightest.
I’m done with the way Reddit handles the community feedback and done with the “don’t you dare to have a differing opinion or we’ll downvote to oblivion” mentality that prevailed in a number of subreddits.
I deleted one 11 year account and 3 three year accounts. The amount of absolute repeat garbage bots on all my homepage, and throughout popular was so bad, it just became Facebook, but angrier.
Is there a fast way to delete comments? I found a nuke Reddit extension but only for chrome and it only did posts. I have a shit ton of comments out there still.
I used shreddit.com, you don’t need a premium account to remove all your comments. You can just select ‘all content’ from the dropdown that allows you to select from which point in time you want to nuke your stuff.
I’m fully committed regardless of how good the replacement is. I paid for Reddit premium every month since 2016 to try and support the thing I loved. I gave out 65+ gold before premium to also support a thing a loved.
I cancelled premium after the AMA and deleted Apollo. No going back period.
This might be why they have not seen a monetary hit yet, it won’t be until people’s premium cancellations hit that Reddit will see a cash flow issue.
The Humanist Report on YouTube lost monetization last month and he slowly saw his subscriber count drop day by day as people’s subscriptions got canceled instead of renewed after 31 days he was somehow still at 9 subscribers. Fortunately he did a video and called out YouTube and people went on his patreon to fund him instead of him relying at all on YouTube. He got monetization back but you can never trust YouTube to not screw people.
Google has been evil for a while now
“Don’t be evil”
Am I the only one bothered by him referring to people as “Snoos”? It’s so cringy.
this too shall pass
I believe there’s going to be a moderator exodus. The flippancy with which Steve has handled this, and how he responded here, is going to stick in the craws of their enormous unpaid workforce. These are the people who have been there a decade plus, have seen the ebbs and flows, and are probably no longer willing to be unpaid servants to their clearly demonstrated monetary interests (at the expense of its users [product]). This was a turning point. They have way bigger problems to address than a 48 hour boycott.
The Meta Twitter-clone is allegedly going to have ActivityPub connectivity. That may be just the tip of the iceberg.
The reddit blackout was as effective as turning off the lights at night.
Well, it’s a new day now and the users will be back - Just like they promised. 🐕
A lot of this just feels like CEO talk. Obviously they do not want to back down but if enough big subs stay off then they might have to change course. I’m worried about the people who are addicted to reddit.
This shows they aren’t gonna back down. If big subreddit s stay blacked out, the mod teams will be replaced. Spez seems super salty that Apollo and others have been able to turn a profit, but after all this time he still hasn’t been able to make reddit money.
We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far
As long as this is true zero fucks will be given.
This pains me as someone who worked in a customer-facing role at a software company. You’re at work getting your ass kicked and leadership just shrugs and says it’s ok because we’re still making money.
How would they see any revenue impact on this short a time scale, anyway? What happened to twitter was three times a bigger shitshow than this, and it still took months for the market to internalize the fact that twitter ads weren’t worth what they used to be.
Yeah this is why I think the 48 hour time limit is unfortunate. I don’t think it’s going to have much long term effect, and the only real difference is going dark indefinitely until demands are met or just migrating elsewhere.
Thing is, ultimately people do have a choice as to whether they want to continue using Reddit without third-party apps.
I agree that regardless of any blackouts, Reddit will be fine in the end - most people simply don’t mind using a Facebook-ified version of Reddit, and that’s fine.My hope isn’t that Reddit will fall, it’s that alternatives (like Lemmy) will rise, for those of us that do care about these issues.
My hope isn’t that Reddit will fall, it’s that alternatives (like Lemmy) will rise
Why not both?
Well, I’m not OP but there are a few demographics I’d rather remain in Reddit, far away from this place.
My notes:
- As expected, a blackout with a set end date is seen as toothless by Reddit leadership
- I hate when companies refer to their employees with some “cute” nickname, like “Snoos”
- He expects some Reddit users to actually resort to physical violence, painting them as the irrational bad guys in this whole situation?
He is delusional or triying to scare the poor Snoos. If anyone is angry about this and looking for a face to punch they have a clear target and is not some dude with a reddit t-shirt.
They are looking for a suit, no tie, popped up collar wearing, venture capital dudebro looking, jailbait ex-moderating, failure of a CEO.
The last one is wild
On top of the presumption that any of them would even want to wear Reddit SWAG right now
Everyone loves corporate merch!
I shit you not, small corpo I work at actually set up an internal e-shop where employees can buy merch. And somehow no employees were reported dying of laughter and there were even a few positive emoji reactions on slack.
Ridiculous. As an employee, if you want me to wear the company’s logo, you better give me that shit for free. Then I might wear it.
No matter what this guy says or does, millions have switched to Lemmy not only is it like reddit, its better, its what reddit used to be.
Now, all will calm down for reddit but the boat started to leak and many will not go back. Just like many didn’t go back to twitter. We will see a slow and steady increase of fediverse activity.
This is truly the web3 we all deserved.
This is truly the web3 we all deserved.
I hate that web3 was taken by the crypto idiots. Federation makes so much more sense as “web3”
