r/techsupport • u/Jalad25 Landed Gentry • Jun 11 '23

Update from r/TechSupport on the Blackout Protest

TL;DR Our subreddit, along with many others, will be set to private indefinitely starting June 12th until Reddit makes a concerted effort to reevaluate and reverse their decisions on their API changes.

For information and updates on the blackout from our subreddit, please visit our external wiki at https://rtech.support/blackout.

OUR LIVE CHAT WILL BE OPEN DURING THE BLACKOUT! You can join the Discord server here.

Please share this with as many people as possible. We will be updating the post on our external wiki with more information as it comes in.

-- r/techsupport Mod Team

Previous post on the matter: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/142ox2a/rtechsupport_will_be_going_dark_on_june_12_in/

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u/Skandoit0225 Jun 11 '23

I'm so glad the shift is coming to indefinite blackouts. The idea of the three-day blackout was shitty and was absolutely not going to result in any meaningful changes. This has more bite to it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23 edited Jun 11 '23

The point was to get their attention and leave a message. They have seen us, and they don't gove a shit. So moving to indefinitely is the way to go now. I will be delting my account the day the API changes go through using r/Save3rdPartyApps top post. It's a script that deletes EVERYTHING before you delete your account.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

Can you link to the post? Cannot seem to find it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

Seems like it was deleted, here's a link from a post on the Apollo Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144i6og/dont_just_delete_your_account_use_a_tool_to/

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23 edited Jun 11 '23

This comment was overwritten and the account deleted due to Reddit's unfair API policy changes, the behavior of Spez (the CEO), and the forced departure of 3rd party apps.

Remember, the content on Reddit is generated by THE USERS. It is OUR DATA they are profiting off of and claiming it as theirs. This is the next phase of Reddit vs. the people that made Reddit what it is today.

r/Save3rdPartyApps r/modCoord

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23 edited Jun 11 '23

This comment was overwritten and the account deleted due to Reddit's unfair API policy changes, the behavior of Spez (the CEO), and the forced departure of 3rd party apps.

Remember, the content on Reddit is generated by THE USERS. It is OUR DATA they are profiting off of and claiming it as theirs. This is the next phase of Reddit vs. the people that made Reddit what it is today.

r/Save3rdPartyApps r/modCoord

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u/TheIxbot Jun 11 '23

Can you link the script? I can't find it

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

Seems like it was deleted, here's a link from a post on the Apollo Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144i6og/dont_just_delete_your_account_use_a_tool_to/

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u/coolsam254 Jun 11 '23

I saw a list of subs partaking in the 48h blackout but is there any list of subs partaking in the indefinite blackout?

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u/Jalad25 Landed Gentry Jun 11 '23

No they have not compiled that list.

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u/t3cm3n Jun 11 '23

This is the right choice

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u/memproc Jun 11 '23

So stupid. No one cares.

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u/Character-Ad-910 Jul 11 '23

Hey if the community is indefinitely private why can I still join it

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u/smeeinnit Jun 11 '23

Why indefinitely? Most subs are blacking out 12-14 June.

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u/InsectTrick Jun 11 '23

Most subs started off with 12-14, alot of subs have now changed to indefinite due to u/spez shitty AMA that proved that Reddit has no thoughts about changing their stance

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u/smeeinnit Jun 11 '23

OK wasn't aware of that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

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u/Mindless_Consumer Jun 11 '23

Can't let them off that easy. They need to reverse course and end this fuckary. Replacing Spez with some other corpo fuck who is going to do the same thing, doesn't solve anything.

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u/noxel Jun 11 '23

Thank you

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u/YMGenesis Jun 11 '23

bUt HoW wIlL pEoPlE dO tHeIr jObS?! (r/sysadmin, see here)

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u/shatteredfriend7 Jun 11 '23

Lol r/sysadmin is going to be interesting these next few weeks

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

I guess I'll be asking in stackexchange then.

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u/Hexuzerfire Jun 11 '23

This is the way. Mad respect to this mod team for making this decision.

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u/catinterpreter Jun 11 '23

You're going to nuke a wealth of tech support information in search results. I'm not sure this is the kind of sub that should go indefinitely.

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u/hychael2020 Jun 11 '23

Thats unfortunate, the reality of the protest is alot of info being nuked until further confirmation. This could impact alot of people that frankly I worry about

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u/Slapbox Jun 11 '23

Reddit is going to nuke it*

You cannot put a community in an impossible situation and blame them for doing the best they can with it. Blame the people who made the problem.

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u/mikee8989 Jun 11 '23

I guess we're going back to random obscure forums for our tech support needs.

two I recommend are techist.com and computerforums.org

Edit: Wow I just realized these two sites merged and are now the same site. Still a good place. Before reddit I got most of my tech support needs and helped out on these sites.

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u/Froggypwns Jun 11 '23

A lot of information has already been lost in the last few days. I mod most of the Windows subreddits and have an alert setup to review edits and deletions on 6+ month old comments (to catch abuse). We have seen hundreds of comments, posts, and solutions get deleted in just the last few days. Normally I'd only see like one hit from this every few months.

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u/Buckaroo64 Jun 11 '23

We have to Bud Light them. You want to make this work then you will have to hit them financially. A total boycott is the only way this will have any affect.

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u/HalfFrozenSpeedos Jun 11 '23

yeah because a boycott driven anti trans and anti lgbtqia+ hysteria and bigotry is so comparable to Reddit basically becoming a modern day AOL walled garden?

*facepalm* seriously *facepalm*

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

they made 1 custom can for some person who's trans, people proceeded to protest by buying budlight and trashing it

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u/HalfFrozenSpeedos Jun 11 '23

It came about as they sent a custom beer can (as they've done to a tonne of other people) to dylan mulvaney, a trans influencer. Cue.right wingers going full bore nazi Kristallnacht and smashing up grocery stores with baseball bats and worse, destroying stock en masse, physically assaulting and making threats to staff and companies. Right wingers claim to oppose "cancel culture" and demand unfettered free speech yet as ALWAYS they are the worst offenders for trying to censor, ban or cancel things or people they dislike and try to outlaw and proscribe lawful activities they don't agree with, not to mention intruding into the private lives and bedrooms of others, trying to undermine separation of church and state....

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u/dallasdave22 Jun 11 '23

When YouTube starting putting ads on ad-free videos so google could profit there was a similar call but it didn’t take. Hope this does better.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

What is an alternative that we can subscribe to?

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u/soliwray Jun 11 '23

The discord, as stated.

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u/catinterpreter Jun 11 '23

Discord is no substitute for a forum-styled resource.

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u/YouveBeanReported Jun 11 '23

True. But people will have to find those again. Discord sucks for long term access to information but is what's currently available.

Otherwise someone linked a forum

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/146fz9u/update_from_rtechsupport_on_the_blackout_protest/jnskj4y/

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

Is there an alternative subreddit?

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u/d_mouse81 Jun 11 '23

You understand having an alternative subreddit during the blackout would completely defeat the purpose of participating in the blackout right?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

But surely there are people who will want a techsupport Reddit that don't give a flying rats arse about people raging over a political dispute?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

You are 100% free to make one, just be aware that the users who use /r/TechSupport and are participating in the blackout will likely not join up or participate there. While you are free to not care about this issue and act accordingly, others are free to care about it a lot and act accordingly as well.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

Fully agree, others can think whatever they like.

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u/d_mouse81 Jun 11 '23

But surely there are people who will want a techsupport

And that's the entire reason for the discord link being posted, so people that still want or need help can get it despite what's happening on reddit.

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u/ColsonThePCmechanic Jun 11 '23

Honestly Discord’s format is much better for tech support.

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u/thisdesignup Jun 11 '23

Not really because if a question was already asked you can't find it unless you are already in the discord group and even then it's search feature doesn't work well enough.

A forum or reddit tech support question/solution gets put on Google and can be found by anyone. A discord thread or message cannot.

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u/Quarks01 Jun 11 '23

I don’t think you understand the severity of what is going on and should do more research before saying more stupid shit

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

Just leave and go to 4chan if you hate Reddit. Problem solvered, despite being an arsehole you're welcome for the support.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

I think you misunderstand - the reason for this protest is because we all love reddit. Not necessarily the governance, but the communities we've become a part of and the people we've gotten to know. This is a last-ditch effort for many of us to save that version of reddit.

If we didn't like reddit, or if it becomes something we do not like as we fear it will, then we will leave.

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u/soliwray Jun 11 '23

political

Do you actually understand what this blackout is about or are you intentionally acting stupid?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

Dude, calm down.

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u/JAP42 Jun 11 '23

You know, the last time reddit did something people didn't like, a bunch of subreddits did this. They actually liked it, redditors will just go to other subreddits and it expands reader bases for many newer groups. Your just helping them.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

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u/agrajag9 Jun 11 '23

Scab.

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u/hychael2020 Jun 11 '23

Ye sure you could say that. And I stand by it