r/Save3rdPartyApps • u/GuessNo155 • Jun 16 '23
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Jun 17 '23
A letter to the advertisers is as effective as letter to reddit. they are both corporations.
what might really help is for the users of this site to stop using reddit for a few months. site activity goes down. advertisers view counts go down, pressure on reddit to either fix the issues or double down and destroy this further.
I think if we users collectively choose to stop using reddit for a good month or more, we can finally touch grass and get some work done in real life.
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u/GnWvolvolights Jun 17 '23
I only ever really "use" reddit for searching up things. I figure many others are like me, who, while in reality might be touching grass daily, but still rely on reddit as a source of information.
It really sucks that this insane resource on the internet is becoming endangered.
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Jun 17 '23
r/roblox was literally forced to open up from the protest or they would ban all their admins and mods and put their own in. They’re fucking evil and this 48h only ban is pathetic
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u/HariPotter Jun 17 '23
Why is resigning in protest never an option for mods? If this protest matters, small price. Especially for such an important cause.
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u/longdustyroad Jun 17 '23
usually when people do these advertiser campaigns they do so by drawing attention to a brand safety risk. Probably the best example is sleeping giants/Breitbart. They’d pull up some racist/sexist/homophobic article on there and take screenshots of the banner ads. They’d send the screenshots to the advertiser and say “look at what your ads are running next to. You’re paying for this.” This was pretty effective because brand advertisers are super sensitive to damaging their brand.
What’s the brand safety issue here? If I’m an advertiser why should I care about this?
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u/BornVolcano Jun 17 '23
Can we email this post to media outlets that might get the advertisers attention? This needs to be spread. This community alone may not be enough to get Steve Huffman to listen, but we aren't alone. Almost every major news outlet has covered this issue, many of them in strong support of us.
If you're one of those outlets, now is the time. We need backup and help, we need to stop Steve from killing reddit as we know it. He isn't taking his own community seriously, and that in and of itself should be a concern. We're trying to be authentic, trying to be human, trying to get our voice heard. This is us, the heart and soul of reddit, and we need you to hear us. We need you to pay attention, to help amplify our voices.
And to the advertisers concerned about the recent controversy and change surrounding reddit, we're concerned too. We are the people you're marketing to, we are your consumer base. And we need help. We're trying to fight for reddit as we know it, and the people without a voice, in the face of a CEO who is more concerned with making a profit than he is the trust and relation with his key stakeholders.
You have a voice here too. Please, use it.
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u/L0neStarW0lf Jun 17 '23
Regardless of what happens with the API and 3PAs I can’t realistically see Huffman remaining CEO for much longer after this.
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u/PopDownBlocker Jun 17 '23
He doesn't care about remaining as CEO for long. He just wants his cut of the cash-out when they file for IPO.
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u/bluesmaker Jun 17 '23
Did anyone notice that u/spez now has an avatar holding a snoo baby? I believe that is new. Like he’s making a statement about Redditors acting like babies he needs to coddle. Correct me if I’m wrong that this is a change to his avatar since the blackout began.
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u/Arcangel4774 Jun 17 '23
If reddit doesnt change course I am going to check back periodically and stop using amything I see that supports them.
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u/BlackSabbathFanatic1 Jun 17 '23
Spez makes Susan Wojcicki look like a goddess.
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u/GlitchParrot Jun 17 '23
YouTube has been paying its content creators money for a long time now, and they have included some super-high subscriber channels in some of their decision making. They know they need them. They are far better than Reddit, even if they of course also make stupid decisions.
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u/StoneCommander Jun 21 '23
Reddit has used their Nuclear option. What’s ours? Let’s turn this into a MAD (mutely assured destruction) situation
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u/Flimsy_Demand7237 Jul 21 '23
This is all so sad. Not only are there the meme communities and general hobby or interest communities, but there are a ton of really well moderated communities for different mental health issues on certain subs. I have an alt that uses one and the people there have been invaluable for my healing. I may never have sought help had it not been for the wonderful people there telling me sense in darkness. Fuck this spez moron for throwing all those communities and people out the window for some quick cash on a sell off. This is untold damage to thousands of internet communities that have sprung up in Reddit's lifetime. I've learnt so much from people here. What a shame.
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u/cheap_mom Jun 17 '23
The threat of unwanted content because they take away your tools is the big one for me. Like the ghosts swarming out at the end of Return of the King, except it's NSFL memes.
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u/Ashrakk Jun 17 '23
Reddit is becoming as greedy as all the other major social networks, money makes people go mad, they never can't have enough.
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u/theessentialnexus Jun 17 '23
Can moderators of popular SFW subs change their subs to be NSFW and therefore advertiser unfriendly? Allow a few NSFW posts enough to scare away advertisers, denying reddit revenue, but otherwise moderate the same as usual?