“All posts must be images of John Oliver looking sexy.”
R/intrestingasfuck also changed and no longer enforces any rules at all except Reddit site wide rules.
Think porn is interesting, post it Think John Oliver pics are interesting, post em Interested in videos of static noise, who are the mods to judge
Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.
ok
r/pics: return to normal, -2,329 votes; “only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy,” 37,331 votes.
r/gifs: return to normal, -1,851 votes; only feature GIFs of John Oliver, 13,696 votes.Having trouble reconciling why these polls are always overwhelmingly in favor of continuing protests when users are apparently opposed to them. Craziest thing.
Sometimes I feel like the internet is a huge mistake, but then I see stuff like this and am just all, “bravo, you crazy assholes,” in the proudest, most pleased, way possible.
Maybe this isn’t the darkest timeline after all.
As I write this, the top post in the “hot” tab on r/pics is a picture of Oliver flipping the double bird next to an image of Huffman. On r/gifs, it’s a GIF of Oliver hitting a table and saying “go fuck yourself” next to an image of the Reddit logo.
As I write this, John Oliver’s Twitter is posting a bunch of pics of himself telling /r/pics to “have at it”
https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120
Nitter link, for those who would rather avoid Twitter:
Hmm. Probably could benefit from a bot to auto-post those in response to Twitter links. Human time being valuable and all that.
People could use this Browser addon https://libredirect.github.io/ it also works on mobile if you use firefox/fennec
Until the API changes at the end of the month.
Oh, no, I mean a bot here in the Fediverse, rather than on Reddit.
we can rest assured that John Oliver is collecting all the sexy pics people photoshop/post and is going to put together a Last Week Tonight episode on this, once the strike is over.
John Oliver always likes to stick it to the big guy in the fight which I find hilarious, I wish Last Week Tonight was on the air so we could hear his takes.
I love this! I have a tiny sub but I’m doing this!!!
I closed my tiny subs. Reddit won’t be able to find mods for them all.
I had closed mine too, but the Oliver thing seems too good to pass up. Once a day, every day I will post John Oliver pic. Just to be snotty.
I’m honestly tired of the trolling. We know that the advertisers and investors aren’t going to reverse course, which means Advance isn’t going to change, and that means Spez is going to keep going. All the trolling does is hurt the users, and push Reddit closer to the brink. Either Reddit will just be closed because it’s not profitable, or there will be a tsunami of bans.
The users are free to leave if they feel they are being hurt by the effects of Reddit’s more-money-at-all-cost policies.
We won’t be able to make spez change his mind, that’s pretty obvious, what we CAN do is having reddit evaluation being further cut down.
That’s the purpose of the trolling, ruining spez’s toy IPO.
All the trolling does is hurt the users
The users are overwhelmingly in favor of any kind of protest, their participation in it is massive, they can’t ban them all, they’re dozens of millions.
I’d rather reddit die than have 0 input from users.
Users can find somewhere else, but reddit needs users.
The die was cast when Reddit decided to put the 3rd party apps out of business. Doubling down on that is only accelerating the decline. We’ve now reached the point where even if Reddit did some serious backpedaling, it wouldn’t get some of its content creators back.
We know that the advertisers and investors aren’t going to reverse course, which means Advance isn’t going to change, and that means Spez is going to keep going
He can do it, let him do it. But why should his members take on the volunteer work of keeping his project running again? Let him set up a paid staff to run the community in an authoritarian manner.
It’s not our business if his project might be in little trouble.
The article mentions r/pics and r/gifs. For what I know r/art is also doing this.
R/steam was forced to reopen and is only posting about literal steam, as in the stuff from boiling water. It’s fantastic.
If only r/Steamdeck was only content about people power washing their decks.
