Multiple subreddits are adopting alternative methods of protesting like publishing only one kind of post and private days.

Excellent work

  • Spzi@lemmy.clickEnglish
    102·
    2 years ago
    • Some of the biggest communities like r/pics, r/aww, and r/GIF decided to post John Oliver pictures and GIFs. In a tweet, Oliver approved this move.
    • In the case of r/aww, the community is also allowed to post pictures of Chiijohn.
    • r/iPhone decided to post pictures celebrating “dashing” Tim Cook.
    • r/Shitposting banned posts with the letter k.
    • r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.
    • r/Nofans is now a passive PC cooler subreddit.
    • r/Interestingasfuck removed a lot of all rules apart from asking members to not break site-wide rules.
    • r/Memes is allowing only Medieval / Landed Gentry memes. This is in response to Huffman’s “Landed Gentry” comment about protesting subreddits.
    • r/PokemonGo is now allowing pictures of John Oliver, Pikachu, or Spark.
    • r/Horny is now a “Christian Minecraft server.”
    • r/Steam members are posting about actual steam.
    • r/HarryPotter is now referring to Huffman as Voldemort.
    • Some subreddits such as r/Showerthoughts are determining close days for the community.

    Glorious.

    • bruzie@lemmy.nzEnglish
      42·
      2 years ago

      r/formula1 is reopening as NSFW to “comply to the fullest extent of our abilities with these changes”:

      Formula 1 is inherently dangerous. Crashes and injuries are not uncommon - some even with fatal results. These incidents are discussed on r/formula1, and videos, images and other media are posted following these events.

      Formula 1 includes messaging and sponsors that are connected to alcohol, tobacco and gambling - all of which are legislatively prohibited or age restricted in various locations. We cannot prevent these from being displayed to underaged users, as they are incorporated in general Formula 1 imagery and content.

      Formula 1 is known for, both in the past and today, to include certain risque imagery that fall within the NSFW space.

      Reddit’s User Agreement states that “Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to create an Account or otherwise use the Services.” - As such it stands to reason that persons under legal age participate in r/formula1.

      Switching our classification means Reddit’s age verification shields underage users from being exposed to content considered harmful.

    • EvilColeslaw@kbin.social
      39·
      2 years ago

      One of the legal advice subs – I can’t remember which – was going forward requiring post approval from mods because they value community safety. But as they are unpaid volunteers they estimate it could take up to 14 days for post approval.

    • Killer_Tree@beehaw.orgEnglish
      33·
      2 years ago

      Thank you for the rundown! It almost makes me want to go back and take a look at the shit show… But tis a silly place and I shant be going back.

    • GoatTnder@beehaw.orgEnglish
      21·
      2 years ago

      /r/woodworking is debating going back to normal, or posting pictures of Norm Abrams and Nick Offerman. I’ll let you guess which one is winning.

    • LaggyKar@programming.devEnglish
      17·
      2 years ago

      r/Nofans is now a passive PC cooler subreddit.

      That should be a nice complement to r/onlyfans, which has previously refocused to pictures of fans (though it’s still private)

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        …I’m afraid to ask what “nofans” used to be. I hadn’t heard of it before.

        • CTaiger@kbin.social
          1·
          2 years ago

          Don’t be afraid. Nofans - short for - No onlyfans - meaning content of normal women not out to make money (there was a version for couples too)
          Maybe someone should bring it back here somewhere.

          Let’s be real if you want to gain popularity for your R****t alternative you just need porn and such (if you seperate the paid kind from the free link stuff you are golden and will grow fast sadly my knowledge on how to create such a place are limited in the programming department.

    • mack123@kbin.social
      9·
      2 years ago

      It is like watching a slow train wreck. You know you should just look away, but you just cannot.

    • Sendbeer@beehaw.orgEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      Shitposting is funny because the auto mod they are using to remove posts cites removing the post in order to save bandwidth for Reddit. The auto mod post is much longer than post being removed and contains K’s. I found it funny anyway.

      • SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        12·
        2 years ago

        I feel you, but in the end it’s just garbage content to piss off reddit admins and execs. Personally, I’d rather get quality content from the fediverse now, but I can understand that some people want to burn that other place down.

    • dm_me_your_secrets@kbin.social
      5·
      2 years ago

      I’d like to know more about the “determining close days” for some subreddits. Won’t they just open them back up?

      I love to see the malicious compliance.

      • NRVulture@kbin.social
        7·
        2 years ago

        Some subs like r/fuckcars will be doing “touch grass Tuesday”, where the sub will be restricted every Tuesday.

        I think r/HarryPotter is still polling the same idea. Which gets me wonder what if most of the popular subs decided to do this.

      • Wahots@pawb.social
        3·
        2 years ago

        Bread stapled to trees is only going to allow four subjects moving forward on certain weeks, one of which is John Oliver, another being literal garbage, lol.

  • BakoBitz@kbin.social
    70·
    2 years ago

    @itmightbethew These are all great but /r/interestingasfuck seems to have hit on something that could have a real impact: Reddit apparently can’t sell advertising on NSFW subs. Imagine if /r/pics and /r/aww and other tip subs just opened themselves up to whatever, it would down Reddit in porn and destroy the site’s reputation. I’m sure the admins would try to force them back to SFW, but it could be a powerful tactic.

    • MagicShel@programming.dev
      33·
      2 years ago

      What are the admins going to do? Moderate? If the moderators are approving NSFW posts, the sub is NSFW… Heck I’m not sure if they have to go that far. On r/cigars every single post is NSFW because cigars are Satan. Just do that to all the subs so every single post requires you to click to reveal the NSFW content. It’ll be like NSFW roulette. Heads, it’s a helpful guide to setting up a service on the cloud. Tails, it’s goatse.

      • nzodd@beehaw.org
        18·
        2 years ago

        Throw in some random gore there for the nuclear option. NSFL is NSFW. And reddit never bothered to distinguish the two so let them down in yet more of their own poor decisions

        • WiseThat@lemmy.ca
          12·
          2 years ago

          Worse than that, Reddit banned all the NSFW subs from /all but DIDN’T ban the NSFL sub. So now instead of and unfiltered /all, with a mix of all the best everything, it’s now a curated collection of no porn and the occasional gore.

      • agentsquirrel@beehaw.org
        7·
        2 years ago

        The tobacco pipe subs are NSFW as well. This was forced on them a few years ago by the admins as they seem to have a big thing against tobacco, but subs for substances much more harmful, like cocaine, are not NSFW.

    • the w@beehaw.orgOP
      22·
      2 years ago

      You’re dead right. If $$$ are Spez’s priority then that’s what we should target. A knock on effect is that it catches the attention of the casual redditor. I have a couple friends who read reddit but were clueless on these issues. Until the NSFW content. One DM’d me tonight

      "“I was on lunch, and I was like “WTF happened to my reddit feed??””

      so that’s working

    • Cryst@lemmy.ca
      2·
      2 years ago

      I think they just banned the mod from r/celebrity for turning the sub NSFW

  • Corvus Nyx@beehaw.orgEnglish
    48·
    2 years ago

    Big mistake to make on the Internet is to call the Internet’s bluff if you’re at the centre of a controversy. It’s not unlike the Streisand Effect.

    • D2L@lemmy.oneEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I’m visiting till my app stops working and that has given me a real chuckle!

  • RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninjaEnglish
    45·
    2 years ago

    You just know that John Oliver is sitting at home right now laughing his ass off at the memes, and then screaming into a pillow because he can’t talk about it anywhere due to the writer’s strike.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    38·
    2 years ago

    On /r/interestingasfuck I just saw a woman with a speculum holding her ass open as someone else poured milk and cereal into it. Yes they ate it.

    So that’s my day so far

    • GraceGH@beehaw.orgEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      Wow that’s a classic! I haven’t seen that video in the wild since the early internet!

      There might be something wrong with me for that to be nostalgic…

      • Zoop@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I feel you. Someone in another comment on here mentioned something along the lines of how clicking through a post on Reddit marked NSFW as part of the protest could be anything, like a wonderful guide to self hosting, ooorr it could be goatse…and I felt nostalgic reading that and remembering the days when that was a lot more common.

        Then I felt it again reading the description of that video. So I’m right there with ya, fellow ‘damaged by the wild west internet days of old’ weirdo. ;)

      • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Is that what “2 girls 1 cup” was?

        I’m actually good at not going and looking at these things, so I end up out of the loop. Which decision I am 99.9% happy with lol. But a text description would not be amiss.

  • Wage_Slave@kbin.social
    36·
    2 years ago

    "r/Horny is now a “Christian Minecraft server.”

    That shit is genius. Not a fan of all this mess. But it has led to new and cool places while creating some funny as hell content with the fallout.

    • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      2 years ago

      Reminds me of the Sherlock Holmes movie

      W: “Remove that stick from my face”

      SH: “It’s not in your face; it’s in my hand”

      W: “Okay, remove what’s in your hand from my face”

    • Envis10n@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      As soon as the initial internal notes were made public I logged out and deleted the app.

      I’m not going so far as to delete all of my posts and comments, but I won’t be using reddit moving forward.

    • Jimbob0i0@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Have popped into ModCoord a couple of times to check on the state of things… but haven’t been in any of my usual subs.

      Need to start subscribing to specific communities here soon but for now enjoying the mix that is all/(active|hot) 😀

    • Uniquitous@lemmy.oneEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, same. I like that it’s a smaller, newer community. Not yet overrun with trolls and bots.

    • crisisingot@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yup, I’ve checked it out anonymously with AdBlock a few times and I click links to posts from mods and things like that but I deleted the app (Boost for Reddit) from my phone and I’m not installing the first party one

  • jursed@beehaw.orgEnglish
    25·
    2 years ago

    I know that this probably won’t work as stubbornly idiotic as Huffman seems to be doubling down but god isn’t that amazing.

    What’s fascinating is the sudden increase of people whining about this. If this kind of stuff bothers them imagine how bad it is when these moderators leave completely? I know a subreddit based on interesting things have completely lowered their standards as a protest and it shows.

    • CleoTheWizard@beehaw.orgEnglish
      23·
      2 years ago

      My friend is no longer using reddit because his front page is mostly porn now (and the default app sucks at hiding it). So I got him to switch to lemmy :)

      But if anything, this is an even better protest. Much more effective and hard to deal with

      • jursed@beehaw.orgEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Yep! Its technically reopening and it makes the spez simps mad. Honestly reddit deserves the worst.

      • constantokra@lemmy.oneEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        I’ve also had friends say reddit is too toxic now. Well, yeah. Mods aren’t modding and the nicer people are over here. It’ll be interesting to see how much they recover. Clearly they knew this would cost them with their users, but hopefully it’s substantially more than they expected.

    • Elysium@beehaw.orgEnglish
      15·
      2 years ago

      If you want to see people really whine, just go on r/JustUnsubbed, you’ll see a bunch of people moaning and groaning about this

        • Sodis@feddit.deEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I think that’s also because a lot of the people fed up with reddit just left at this point. So, it’s only those left, that don’t care as long as they get their memes.

      • jursed@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I subbed to that subreddit specifically to see people whine before lol. I’d say it feels astroterfed but that would be giving them too much credit

  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
    17·
    2 years ago

    The company even sent messages to moderators saying that they will be removed if they all continue to particulate in the blackout.

    that typo, LOL.

  • zombiehousefly@beehaw.orgEnglish
    14·
    2 years ago

    My favourite one is anime_titties has a poll about whether to continue with their world political topics or change to a highly moderated pic forum of anime boobs.

    • monobot@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      They permanently blocked me for sharing lemmy links before blackout. One more reason to do it, link aggregator not allowing links!