All posts on r/pics and r/gifs must now be about comedian and Last Week Tonight host John Oliver after users voted.
Apparently, /r/art is only allowing images of John Oliver looking artsy now.
It’s funny, but I don’t quite get the point of this. If you are boycotting Reddit then you shouldn’t be going there to post about things. If you ARE going there, you are no longer boycotting. Reddit doesn’t care what you post about. You are still participating in the site. It’s just driving traffic back to Reddit, which harms the cause.
I visit Reddit but without an account. I don’t vote, comment or post. UBlock Origin and Firefox take care of the ads. No engagement/read-only mode costs them money serving up content while I add nothing. I save my engagement for Lemmy.
You are still an active user. Don’t visit and the site will die.
You are crossing the picket line
If it were only about the ads, they would allow third party apps to show their ads via the API.
The statistical data that they collect from your usage is still extremely valuable. They’re still fingerprinting you and tracking you around the site. They’re still A/B testing you with suggested content.
I feel like the ONLY way this could work is if all the big subs collectively agreed to go this route. As it stands though, you’re still giving Reddit traffic.
The point is to make the site less useful and thus drive users off of it.
Admins have made the point that subs will be opened whether the mods like it or not. But mods can still control the topics of subreddits.
Thus now the rules are changing to make the frontpage stale and drive people off of Reddit. Already /r/pics has mysteriously fallen off of /r/all.
That’s fucking awesome, toss some gas on that fire baby
Watching it all burn is cathartic
Is it really burning though if people are still engaging the platform and seeing ads?
They can say the moderators aren’t doing their jobs and deserve up be replaced when the sub us shut down. They can’t do shit when they open the sub and turn it into whatever they feel like.
Also, I’m waiting for them to replace the moderators and get flooded with banned content with no ability to moderate.
I think the decision to only post pictures of John is helping reddit. Its funny, the pictures are great, its drama-full and happening on reddit. Sorry I wish it wasn’t but I think this is good for reddit.
I kinda agree, as funny as this is.
Now if anyone ACTUALLY wants to not help Reddit, upload a gig or 5 of just noise just playing in a video and cause the site to crash: apparantly some folks on Twitter are doing so, with instructions
