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In response to the disastrous Spez AMA, /r/Videos have announced that they will permanently shut down on 11th June, one day ahead of the planned blackout (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Clbull to c/technology

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Hello everyone, I’ll try to keep this short as I know there’s been a lot going on over the last few days. When we made our announcement last week, we intended to get Reddit's attention on a subject that our team found extremely concerning. /r/Videos is joining a larger coordinated protest and signing an open letter to the admins found here.

The announcement was of exceedingly high API prices which we all know was to intentionally kill 3rd party applications on reddit (Apollo, Reddit is Fun, Boost, Relay, etc.) Since that post several things have become clear; Reddit is not willing to listen to its users or the mod teams from many of its largest communities on this matter. Yesterday all major third-party Reddit apps announced that they would be shutting down on the 30th of June due to these changes. There were no negotiations and Reddit refused to extend the deadlines. The rug was pulled out from under them and by extension all of the users who rely on those tools to use reddit.

In addition to this, the AMA hosted by Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, which was intended to alleviate concerns held by many users about these issues, was nothing short of a collage of inappropriate responses. There are many things to take away from this AMA but here are the key points. Most disappointingly it appears that Reddit outright misconstrued the actions of Apollo's creator /u/iamthatis by saying that he threatened Reddit and leaked private phone calls, something done only to clear his name of another accusation.

So what’s happening? The TL;DR? Effective tomorrow (6/11/2023), /r/Videos will be restricting posting capabilities. Anything posted before the cut off date will likely be the final front page of our community before we go private indefinitely. In the unlikely scenario that Reddit ownership has a sudden change of heart and capitulates on their decisions we will reopen, but until that happens /r/Videos will stay closed. Many other communities have come to similar decisions and we support those who have decided to take a stand.

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[–] HandOfKarma@kbin.social 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is huge news! Hopefully other gigantic subreddits will follow suit.

[–] sup@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup this is massive and it's not a niche subreddit. That means, most likely, more will follow. Sure, reddit will probably force it back online with new mods or whatever, but THIS is how you make a statement. Hat's off r/videos!

[–] Senseibull@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Damage is done, there’s no coming back for reddit. Spez showed his true hand and how he doesn’t care and is willing to lie to us all for the sake of profit.

Opensource for the win

Federated sites for the win

We don’t need a for profit company to provide what reddit provided.

Even if they backtracked, I sorely hope no one believes them and goes back.

It’s not just about the API to me, reddit became toxic and there’s government psy ops all over it using botnets

[–] setsneedtofeed 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never underestimate people. One app, ReddReader, got the exemption that allows it to live for now and people are already getting hyped about switching to it. Time is a flat circle.

[–] Senseibull@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that due to accessibility? I can see it’s for android, but apollo was the pinnacle of the reddit app space so it’s a substandard experience, plus if the power users go and some subreddits stay dark, damage is still done.

[–] Setsneedtofeed@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's throwing an accessibility bone to people to try and placate everybody.

[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Damage is done, there’s no coming back for reddit.

I don't know what reddit's corporate structure is, but if it's possible to shitcan spez and give up on the IPO, that's the only way I can see it making a comeback at this point. Other than that, yeah, the reddit we knew and loved is dead.