The blackout is starting to have a financial impact on Reddit, but we must stay dark!

Hey! I'm keeping this as it's sharing knowledge with new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.

Honestly, regardless of what happens, I have no plans to go back. Lemmy's been a refreshing breath of fresh air.

I love how these articles always frame the strike as "These needy people are mad because Reddit is now charging for something that was free before." Motherfucker, we're mad because the price was unreasonable and they were unwilling to negotiate in good faith. Third party app developers even agreed that charging for API usage was a reasonable thing but they expected the cost to be reasonable, as well.

If I were world dictator I would just make advertising illegal. It's the perfect dictator move. Simple policy that's hard to enforce which will almost certainly have unintended consequences. But God damn do I hate advertising.

Around 14 years ago or so, I actually turned off my Adblocker for reddit, because I respected the platform and how it was run. I've never turned off Adblocker for ANY other site before or since. Reddit can get fucked. I'm not going back period.

Imagine after the 3rd party apps are killed!

I personally hope they go bankrupt. I mean I feel bad for the average worker just trying to make a living, but fuck Reddit. Those folks should jump ship while they can and do something better for themselves.

A new blackout tracker just dropped on the Discord: https://darktotal.com/

I cancelled my Reddit premium today. I was hesitant because I was in the $30/yr and didn’t want to get rid of that pricing since it’s $50 now. But I’m liking the fediverse and the quirks that comes with it. Will cancelling make an impact? Probably not. But I’d rather not support them if they’re not going to give me a choice on which app I use.

I mean. We're all here. No idea how many people will actually stay, but I hope It's enough. I like the change

I just moved to Lemmy after staying on Reddit for almost 8 years! Hopefully more people will migrate too :)

Social media should never be centralized and for-profit

Two Wpromote clients canceled two premium, takeover-style campaigns that were supposed to launch this week

"Takeover" campaigns are getting canceled. I wonder which blacked out subs were going to be taken over with ads this week.

At this point, even if they were to reverse all the decisions they’ve made, I have no intention or desire to go back to Reddit. Lemmy has been a great replacement and I’m hoping it’ll only improve over time.

I deleted my Twitter account and haven't been back since blood diamond heir and purchaser, not founder, of Tesla Elon Musk bought it.

I'm done with reddit. I just hope the anti-capitalist subs regenerate here or I'll have to find another place to vent (again, not reddit) in that regard.

I'd love to try to make one, but I'm too busy with wage slave survival to be an attentive mod.

long live lemmy 💙

Advertising on the internet has always been pretty awful. I wish it would just stop.

This is really nice, if the protests start to hurt their bottom line, they are going to be much more inclined to listen. I didn't expect these blackouts to do something.

I am/was? A moderator of r/NintendoDE, still backed out, until they take us over or comply with the demands.

Probably we'll be taken over at some point, but I feel like Reddit has lost its place for me, and a large part of the trust that I out there too.

Imagine what it would be like if we strike this hard for fair wages.

Reddit's soul was slowly drained off life. It's better here than going back to Zombieland. That's said, I will grab some popcorn and watch this slow train wreck called future of Reddit.

I officially left reddit. Totally done with it. I remember when the Digg exodus happened. No one thought things would turn out the way it did for Digg. There will always be users on reddit, and who knows, maybe they will use AI to aggregate content to fill the void for those who have left. It's all about the targeted ads in the end; they don't care who submits content, they care about the views.

It's hard to stay dark when the admins can put admin-friendly mods in charge of subs.

The thing that should scare advertisers the most isn't just the slight dip in revenue, but that those users are moving to ad-free sites. Those impressions are unrecoverable by redistributing spend away from Reddit.

Don't forget that in the end of the month and July 1st the third party apps will disappear on reddit. That means more redditors will to like lemmy or squablles etc.

I would love to be a fly on the wall come July. If the advertisers start to pull their spots, the earth may rumble just a tad

On Monday, Reddit’s ad manager encountered a brief outage, during which buyers were unable to look at reporting statistics, even while impressions were still delivering, though the impact was fairly minimal, per four sources. (The Verge reported the moderator blackout crashed the site, although it’s unclear whether the crashes are related).

So the site was down for quite a bit of time but the ad related stuff was just a minor hiccup?

Ah fuck yeah let’s go

Once Reddit restricts it API usage and Stock goes public it will slowly just become another Digg clone.

I wish the acronym CPM was defined. Maybe I overlooked it.

I never gave them money, but I gave them free content. That is now done and gone. As soon as Apollo's API is deleted, I'm editing all of my old comments and posts to remove any content and let readers know what. Some of it was very helpful stuff to help others troubleshoot PC and server issues.

Nice, I won't go back to reddit after Apollo shut down

Holy Moly! Only 9000 of about 100000 Subs reportedly participate in the protest! Not even 10 percent! Ugh!