Yeah, ask Tumblr how well banning NSFW went for them lol

Maybe his exit strategy is to give Elon an amazing handjob and hope he buys reddit for a stupid amount of money.

Sync for Lemmy is expected to have first public release in approx. 6 weeks. That will definitely increase adoption as Sync would make Lemmy look like something not made in a basement overnight.

It is perfectly reasonable to charge for API access. That's not the problem.

The problem is that Huffman seems to think he can do whatever he wants without consequences. It wasn't "Hey, we're going to start charging for API, here's a reasonable price, and a reasonable time frame, and we want to make sure everyone has a reasonable opportunity to continue providing applications that lots of users and mods use to access and shepherd the site."

It was, "We're going to start charging an exorbitant amount for API access, in an unviably short timeframe. If you have any complaints or disagreements, we're going to provably lie about our interactions with you to make you look bad, oh and we're also going to completely forget that there are people with accessibility needs and basically ignore them except as an afterthought. We're also going to threaten existing mods who don't play along, and replace them with people who do if we feel like it."

That's the problem.

The primary thing with r/pics and its users is that they are creating/posting SFW quality content for free. They are an established platform with an audience, and the tradeoff is that the platform can be used for ads by its owner. This is all fair.

The main outrage against the blackout is now coming from people who usually scroll, upvote, and consume content. Not content creators. They cannot fathom that their source of entertainment is inaccessible and just want people to stop 'overreacting' and get back to scrolling.

What happens when the platform is no longer reliable, because the owner decided to upset the people making sure the quality remains as established? Sure, someone else will fill the gap, but with these actions I'm sure a lot content creators have flocked to other places. Which leaves the bots, and the lurkers. No content is worse than low quality content.

I'm curious for what the future brings for Reddit. It feels like it will have a different trajectory compared to Twitter, where anything is content and quality doesn't matter as much.

They should announce NSFW ban since that content isn't lucrative.

I have to say I find it hard to believe that it's easy to find new mods for all these subreddits. That's why they're focusing on threats. Otherwise I don't understand why they would allow these mods to continue this shit posting. Because they can make up an excuse for kicking them out. That wouldn't be hard.

They’ll make people apply to get their subs turned to NSFW. They’ll all be SFW by default and force people to give a reason as to why it’s NSFW. They’ll deny every application from the newly changed NSFW subs. Or they’ll charge people for the NSFW tag - and it’ll be based on traffic!

I noticed this too. It seems some people just arent ready to let it go and are blaming this protest for decreasing the number of users on the sub. What they fail to realize is that a lot of the people who left are probably using third party apps and wont have access to reddit after they lose API access. We will really see the extent of this in July?

My experience on Reddit over the past couple of years is that the users are terrible arbiters of what should be allowed. It's possibly different on a regional sub like r/Austria, but on other specific topic subs, off-topic posts routinely get huge numbers of upvotes.

Even when the rules that are made to enforce topicality are very clear, most new posts don't adhere to them. Take r/leopardsatemyface where the poster has to answer an automod comment that specifies 3 steps to determine if the content fits. There are usually a few commenters pointing out how it doesn't fit at all while vastly upvoted comment threads just discuss what was seen in the post regardless.

My point is that if it were up to the users, anything would go and there would be effectively one sub. Although there are power hungry mods I consider the thoughts of the average user in many subs to have little use or relevance to how things should work.

I doubt Reddit would use bots for German opinions

Well, about that...: https://web.archive.org/web/20230607173747/https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/13p889x/reddit_admins_were_just_caught_using_bots_or_fake/

Hard to say, because Reddit is privately owned they don't have to publish their financials.