The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. It's the official end of the battle. The Reddit protest is over, and Reddit won.

The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.::Reddit corporate claims victory over its disgruntled mods as r/aww, r/pics, and r/videos abandon the “John Oliver rule.”

  • exapsy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    212·
    11 个月前

    I dont know what you say, I transitioned to Lemmy 100% and deleted my acc at reddit.

    The only super annoying thing is that they get to keep the cake whole and the dog full (my comments by deleting my name and my acc deleted). Which I despite them for that even more now and just make me avoid the platform even more and dis-advertise it.

    I would be fully happy if I had my account, changed my comments first to “fuck /u/spez” and then had deleted my account, but I only knew so much. I was naive enough to think they would delete my comments too, since they’re My Intellectual Property. Right? They came from my own mind, I took the time to write them, and I deleted them! But no! We will keep them, just delete your name.

    And when you google my reddit username, you still get from the google’s cache directed to threads with my deleted comments. Fuck you spez. Fuck you.

    Time will tell if reddit won. It’s not a short-term fight. I deleted my discord a Chinese Tencent’s vessel and a product that makes no money but burns money for the sake of gathering data. My Instagram, my Meta account thus my FB too, my WhatsApp, every app that was there just to gather my data or exploit me now or in the future.

    I do everything to keep off being fingerprinted. I use platforms that use more and more end-to-end encryption like Matrix. Or at worst Telegram which is not end to end but the best of the worst since my relatives still use it.

    Just because you don’t see it yet, doesn’t mean that a movement against anti-consumer platforms like reddit don’t exist. I inform my mom about it, I inform my relatives and friends about it. I move friends and friends move me to safer for the future to use platforms and de-centralized.

    A battle may be short, but the war is long.

    • lorkano@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 个月前

      I removed all of my comments first, so they dont have anything. Used app to do this, took few minutes to remove thousands

    • dlpkl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 个月前

      If you still have access to your account there’s a bot service that will edit all of your comments to whatever message you’d like (eg. “Fuck spez” or w.e) and then when you delete them that’s what it’ll display.

      • exapsy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        11 个月前

        I don’t unfortunately, I would even have done it by hand despite that I’m a developer and could have made a bot myself. Point is, if I knew about it I would be so furious that I would have no problem doing it by hand. Fuck spez.

    • Hyperi0n@lemmy.filmEnglish
      32·
      11 个月前

      Discord isn’t owned or majority controlled by tencent at all. That’s antivax level paranoia.

        • Hyperi0n@lemmy.filmEnglish
          33·
          11 个月前

          You just claimed that out of your ass again. There isn’t a single source that says tencent has a majority stake from their investment with Discord Inc.

          Not even the links you provided state what you are claiming.

          Tencent owns a majority stake in GGG.

          Tencent has only funded Discord for $158 million. Less than 1/3 of the total funding($500 million) it has received and well below the $15 billion the company is valued at.

          Either you don’t know how investments and shares work, you’re bad at math or both.

          Is most likely that tencent has a 10-15% stake in Discord.

          • JesusFistus@lemm.eeEnglish
            21·
            11 个月前

            Depending on when that funding came in and how the stocks got priced they could be majority shareholders, the founders of the company I work for own over 50% together although they’ve gotten way more funding from external investors than they’ve put in themselves

          • exapsy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            22·
            11 个月前

            Tencent has only funded 158 million […] that’s only 1/3 of the shares

            and that’s not a majority of the shares? Are you stupid or you’re pretending to be?

            Because so far you’ve only insulted me but now it’s time for me to insult you. You firstly clearly don’t know how to make a discussion work without insulting your counterparty, and secondly don’t know in english the difference between “THE majority” and “A majority”.

            You talk like a classic 9gagger who only knows how to talk with insults and misinformation and with pure arrogance. 1/3 is a majority of the shares. That’s how it works in business. 1/3 is a big number to take big decisions and make vetos and be on the table.

            • Hyperi0n@lemmy.filmEnglish
              34·
              11 个月前

              1/3 is not the majority. Majority of share has to be 50% and more. Usually majority is kept by the company and other shares are promised.

              Investing doesn’t gauentee stakeholdership. You are making nothing but conspitorial assumptions.

              Again, you have little grasp on economics, buisness, math and stakeholders.

              • exapsy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                21·
                11 个月前

                I didn’t say THE majority. You continue to change my words. I said A majority. There can be multiple majorities in a community in relation to something else. And in the business world when you say 1/3 of shares is owned by X entity, that IS a majority. Because the rest is most likely 1 million other people/entities with no power, some are VC, some are CEO, some are other seeders.

                I understand you may not know much about the business world. It’s not bad not knowing things. And stop insulting people for not knowing something. Shaming people for lack of knowledge is just such a loser mentality. It’s like sucking your own cock.

                And at last you answered without direct insults, but you still gave me a “you have a little grasp of business economics and maths” which is ironical.

                1/3 is a big portion to own from a company. I’m in the business world, I’m also been a trader for years now, we also do discussions on our company’s surge meetings about IPOs and I have friends who’ve been bank CEOs or still are. Believe me. 1/3 is a big portion to own from a company. You own

                1/3 of the decisions in a sense that the company does. You have huge voting power and rights. Stop pretending to be blind for the sake of proving yourself right.