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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 3 (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] nyander@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Cannot be done for lawyercat reasons.

I can't say for sure, but I suspect they are trying to push nsfw in-house for the sake of monetizing it. Nsfw drives quite a bit of traffic, and with the falling out of Imgur, Reddit has become the primary host for that content. They just can't say that publicly because Reddit has a bit of problem with non-consensual material.

[–] TauZero@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Right! I was trying to model u/spez as sincere, but with views so diametrically opposed to mine as to sound insane. "Lawyercats" was an actual reason he has cited previously. I agree that the much more likelier explanation is that reddit execs are lying out their ass and are simply deliberately killing of 3rd party apps to make their IPO look better somehow, and using the fuck-you pricing as a convenient excuse. The execs must have been drinking their own start-up cool-aid, having forgotten that the real value of reddit is not in them but in the community. u/spez keeps calling it HIS data that 3rd party apps are profiting off, when it is really OUR data. Or maybe they are aware, but are expecting that they can bend the community to their will regardless.

[–] balerion@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But wait. I have a NSFW subreddit, and reddit doesn't allow you to upload pictures directly to reddit if you're on an NSFW subreddit. Right? So how can it be the primary host?

[–] nyander@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)