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   Padraig Fahy 🌈 (padraig@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 19:28:57 JST Padraig Fahy 🌈

   Day 2 of the #Reddit blackout

   Mods have started turn on each other.

   Users are crying at the wasted Karma that they could have been farming by posting news and events that are happening.

   Posts attacking mods of subreddits that are open as to why they are open, only to find that the mod team left about 8 years ago.

   Kbin & Lemmy instances are on fire, rapid expansion is happening and they can't keep up.

   Bing bing bing. More subreddit are going dark.

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     James / Forbairt / NantesToday (nantes@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 19:47:30 JST James / Forbairt / NantesToday

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     @padraig as someone who doesn't use Reddit ... I ... I now feel like using Reddit to see what's going on :D :D

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     Padraig Fahy 🌈 (padraig@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 20:09:23 JST Padraig Fahy 🌈

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     • James / Forbairt / NantesToday

     @nantes Well, there isn't much on Reddit to view at the moment since over 7000 subreddits (communities) have gone private in protest.

     The TL;DR is:
     The Reddit admins are imposing fees to use their API pricing out all 3rd Party Apps. Some estimations see the developer of a 3rd party app having to pay $20mill a year to keep the app working.

     Meanwhile, the official 1st party app lacks fundemental moderation tools and has major a11y issues. Things that have been promised for years.

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     Padraig Fahy 🌈 (padraig@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 20:11:21 JST Padraig Fahy 🌈

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     • James / Forbairt / NantesToday

     @nantes And as it has been discovered in the last couple of days that the CEO has been found to be moderating problematic subreddits that involve children.

     And this is all happening before their IPO 🙃

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     James / Forbairt / NantesToday (nantes@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 20:17:14 JST James / Forbairt / NantesToday

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     @padraig ouchies :o ... I'd seen the thing about Apollo and their potential costs which seemed insane hadn't heard about their IPO or their CEO :o

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     Padraig Fahy 🌈 (padraig@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 20:29:47 JST Padraig Fahy 🌈

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     • James / Forbairt / NantesToday

     @nantes Yeah, not a good look for them at the moment.

     Kbin/Lemmy are alternative platforms that use ActivityPub (like Mastodon) but most of the bigger instances are being overloaded with people migrating from Reddit in the same fashion that Twitter users did back in November with Mastodon.

     Swings and roundabouts haha.

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     Chris "TheChrisD" Daly (thechrisd@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 20:59:38 JST Chris "TheChrisD" Daly

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     • James / Forbairt / NantesToday

     @padraig @nantes

     > as anyone can be added as a mod without permission

     User still has to accept the invitation before they appear in the public list.

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     Padraig Fahy 🌈 (padraig@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 21:01:18 JST Padraig Fahy 🌈

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     • Chris "TheChrisD" Daly

     @thechrisd According to this post, back in the day, the mod applications were automatically accepted.

     https://old.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/1477psa/all_3_are_going_to_lie_to_you/jnuy0xf/

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     Chris "TheChrisD" Daly (thechrisd@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 21:29:54 JST Chris "TheChrisD" Daly

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     @padraig That old reddit CSS hurts my eyes so much.

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     Cherry-Coloured Punk (heyitserin@mastodon.ie)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 00:02:33 JST Cherry-Coloured Punk

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     @padraig As The Jam would say: That's entertainment!