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The Reddit Blackout Is Breaking Reddit (www.wired.com)

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“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”

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[-] dan@lemm.ee 176 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If it wasn't hurting them they wouldn't be doing damage control.

Spez wouldn't be doing (awful) interviews (going so far as to praise Elon Musk)
They wouldn't be publishing whitewashed versions of history
They wouldn't be changing the rules to silence dissent
They wouldn't be plotting to overthrow protesting mods to install compliant ones
They wouldn't be lying about trying to work with devs
They wouldn't be preventing people from deleting their old comments/posts
They wouldn't be forcing subreddits to reopen
They wouldn't be advertising on Facebook for new advertisers
They wouldn't be trying to smear Apollo's developer
They wouldn't be posting propaganda notices on new reddit's homepage
They wouldn't be censoring discussion about alternatives like Lemmy and kbin

It's working, keep it up.

[-] Bobbinapples@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

They wouldn't be posting propaganda notices on new reddit's homepage

I want to know more about this, i haven't heard of this yet.

[-] dan@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This appears at the top of the page until you dismiss it (at least for me): https://i.imgur.com/Uo3t2TI.jpg

Here’s what it links to: https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/16693988535309

Yesterday they were linking to some much more blatant propaganda/history whitewash, here's the link: https://www.redditinc.com/blog/apifacts

[-] CaCtUs2003@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

I got a bunch of that propaganda the other day even when signing in on old.reddit.

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