just so this doesn’t overwhelm our front page too much, i think now’s a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let’s try to keep what’s happening in this thread instead of across 10.

developments to this point:

The Verge is on it as usual, also–here’s their latest coverage (h/t @dirtmayor@beehaw.org):

other media coverage:

  • Dingo Fan@beehaw.orgEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    I am wondering if, based on this horrible AMA, if subs are going to either blackout early, or decide that 48 hours won’t really do anything so they opt to go indefinitely.

    • mustyOrange@beehaw.orgEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      /r/traa’s main mod said they and the subreddits gone for good after this since they’re tools won’t be there

    • eklatea@beehaw.orgEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      r/ffxiv has already considered to extend their blackout period even before the AMA, so it’s possible

    • chrislenz@beehaw.orgEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      They need to. This AMA is just telling people that reddit is following through with their changes and telling people to deal with it.

    • MyNameIsFred@beehaw.orgEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Reddit admins will likely just boot the mods and takeover the subreddits. Especially the bigger ones. Heck they may even do that to ones that blackout at all, or past the 14th.

      They have threatened and done similar to things like firearm subreddits.

        • MyNameIsFred@beehaw.orgEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Couldn’t really tell you. I haven’t done any moderation in many years. And have no knowledge of how their DB system or backups are structured. But make no mistake, Reddit has admin rights and the ability to takeover any sub if they don’t feel the mods are doing a good job, and there’s been precedence for such action, either due to mod abusing and shuttering a sub, or just not engaging at all or even just going afk and abandoning a sub.

          I dont think Mods can outright delete comments or submissions, only hide them. Only a user can overwrite and delete their comments. So…unless basically all users started scrubbing comments it would be hard i would guess. And i wouldnt be shocked if they had replicas or DB backups crawled at the page/submission level to roll back off of to protect such an act. Heck Pushshift was doing about that. I really detested that guy for how he handled privacy. Even had people sign up to exemptions and just straight ignored specific requests to have their user pages excluded from crawling.

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      a few communities already have (/r/TropicalWeather) because they can’t run under the new circumstances so it’s very possible we see a much more chaotic wave of blackouts.