Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.
We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.
There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.
While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.
I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.
Again, we’ll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.
Edit to include source: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/13/reddit-ceo-blackouts-no-revenue-impact/
We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far
As long as this is true zero fucks will be given.
This pains me as someone who worked in a customer-facing role at a software company. You’re at work getting your ass kicked and leadership just shrugs and says it’s ok because we’re still making money.
You’re at work getting your ass kicked and leadership just shrugs and says it’s ok because we’re still making money.
Exactly why I left my customer service job. Now that company is struggling because - surprise - customer service is gone to shit.
I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.
meaning: the users are our enemy and they hate us…
No Steve, we just hate management, that’s who better not wear reddit gear in public… Not the rank and file who don’t make the braindead decisions that kill platforms.
I thought I was the only one thinking he is painting a clear image of the enemy. Together we will get through what they have done!
Exactly. He’s creating a “common enemy”. But legit we’re all here sitting on our bums, closing our subs and moving to lemmy (or equivalence)
the “or equivalence” got me now. Is there something? I’m curious, I love competition, so I want to give it a try
I’m sure many will go back to Reddit but some wont. I for one will be staying on Lemmy as I’ve found it a breath of fresh air.
Same! The mood here reminds me of the good old days when everyone on Reddit wasn’t a cynical asshole.
Jerboa is already a better app than Reddit’s official app, so I’m quite happy to give the Lemmy and Jerboa devs time to iron out the kinks.
God why is everyone on reddit a cynical asshole?
It’s a reflection of society as a whole, unfortunately.
I think there’s more to it because there are people on Reddit who act like assholes on Reddit but in real life you’d never know since they seem like nice people.
It’s not reddit. It’s the pseudonymity of the internet. I’ve met people who just didn’t understand they were talking to real people because they were just typing at their computers. I noticed that 20 years ago for the first time and it didn’t really change over the years. the only thing one could blame reddit for is “being popular enough to attract idiots”.
My notes:
- As expected, a blackout with a set end date is seen as toothless by Reddit leadership
- I hate when companies refer to their employees with some “cute” nickname, like “Snoos”
- He expects some Reddit users to actually resort to physical violence, painting them as the irrational bad guys in this whole situation?
The last one is wild
On top of the presumption that any of them would even want to wear Reddit SWAG right now
Everyone loves corporate merch!
I shit you not, small corpo I work at actually set up an internal e-shop where employees can buy merch. And somehow no employees were reported dying of laughter and there were even a few positive emoji reactions on slack.
Those emoji reactions came from the boot lickers trying to ingratiate themselves for a promotion by demonstrating how much they love the brand and the vision and the culture of the company.
I did sales for awhile, this is probably correct. You would be in multiple whatsapp groups and it was very important you reacted to things with happy emojis if you wanted to get anywhere.
Those are typically also the least helpful people that will want your help for anything, but will throw anyone under the bus to look better.
Buy corpo merch?!?!
He has a point with keep going forward. The reaction of reddit admins is what makes the change easy for me. I can waste my time here.
Honestly, whatever Reddit does at this point doesn’t matter. Lemmy works decently and for all else, why not try using something different? The internet is a bigger place than it seems. I prefer touching grass to wasting any more time thinking about Reddit.
Thanks, I’m so with you
Imagine trying to fight the internet…
I do miss the niche communities and educational ones on Reddit, but Lemmy is great so far.
Create the com, tell people about it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and (hopefully) people will come.
Am I the only one bothered by him referring to people as “Snoos”? It’s so cringy.
As non native speaker - what does it mean?
Well he threw us the gauntlet. Let’s pick it up.
