Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.
We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.
There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.
While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.
I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.
Again, we’ll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.
Edit to include source: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/13/reddit-ceo-blackouts-no-revenue-impact/
I just hope Meta doesn’t get it’s claws into activitypub at the roots. The whole point of this thing is to avoid corporate domination and I don’t want them to turn it into a charade.
New guy here: What’s “activitypub”? Thanks in advance awesome human!
it’s a standardized protocol for creating decentralized social networks. basically if everybody who wanted to create a social network agreed to use activitypub, they’d all be able to talk to each other, just like anyone can send email to anyone else, even if they aren’t on the same email server.
this is why i’m against bluesky even though a lot of my friends are on it… it’s just another walled off single-entity-controlled property. didn’t we learn anything from twitter and now reddit!?
Thanks for the information! And I agree that distributed seems to be the best way forward…
My understanding of it is that its the software that federated services use to communicate with each other. Now, I don’t know if i’m even right so take that with a grain of salt, i’m sure eventually someone 1 level higher than me on the techie tier list will give a more thorough answer.
I don’t think its a bad thing tbh as long as it is in the fediverse. Think of it as email. Google, Microsoft and many others are in the game but email stays the same
Just gotta watch out for the old EEE tactics Microsoft has pulled in the past, if they manage to stuff content into ActivityPub posts against the spec which encourage people to move to their “compatible” service and making the normal apps seem broken. Google does the same thing with Chrome features against web standards set by the W3C.
Yeah, It could be really “dangerous” for the Fediverse, I dread the moment when Facebook or another corp will start to fuck with it.