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Reddit Blackout Plans are really heating up... (self.chat)

submitted 2 years ago by mrcleansocks to c/chat

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I just saw this post over on r/modcoord which is basically a massive list of subreddits participating in the blackout protest. If I'm being honest I haven't seen this much anger and coordinated frustration since the era right before the digg exodus.

Assuming more and more subreddits join in, it's going to send a pretty massive message to the users who interact with a blacked out subreddit. Then I'm trying to imagine what happens if after a massive coordinated blackout, Reddit continue on the current trajectory. Is Lemmy even prepared to handle the amount of potential incoming traffic that API closure could lead to? It's absolutely bonkers to me that the Reddit team might just stay the course....

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[–] UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pub 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

My account is 17 years old and predates the first digg migration (before the giant digg v4). It’s been a downhill run for a while but sometime after the Boston bombing debacle it’s seemed much more aggressively moderated and curated, much less “free” and less tolerant of opinions or thoughts that fall outside of the “hive mind”.

I use it less and less anyway. I get that the API was abused to violate folks privacy wishes(ie:pushshift ) and feed larger corps coffers with ad data. And I get that a response is to ad some charge. But their general direction has seemed to be circling a toilet so to speak

[–] CookieJarObserver@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To my knowledge they (reddit) are working on getting pushshift back to work and large companies mining data do so by scraping the website, not through api

[–] UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago

They axed Pushshifts API access because the dude was unresponsive. Which is par for the course. It was down for days at a time often. At one point he mentioned you could opt out of pushift crawls, but signing up for a google survey with your username. But then never opted anyone out, so everyone got crawled.

Guy is a bit of a scumbag. Im glad his access was cut.

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