Why Reddit is Collapsing: The Coming Reddit Crisis
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Reddit blackout today has caused the the website to cease function. And with reddit going public this brought up questions on how reddit as a business will continue in the future. As the reddit blackout and reddit protest is slowing down reddit by reddit mods.
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love your channel, i only use reddit to see the ex-musIim subreddit, but that’s it lol
You are the problem.
Does this mean more people wall flocked for 4chan
Imagine how amazing reddit would have been if Aaron Swartz was still alive and in charge. Spez is a clown.
Swartz is a modern day hero. Spaz is an establishment tooI.
Aaron Swartz was such an amazing person with their heart in the right place. Such an injustice how they vilified him.
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
@@Incipidone It's kinda crazy if you really think about it... the man wanted nothing more than free speech, what America is supposed to be... And he had the guts to actually do something about it, not just complain online. Result? The government literally chased him down and put himself into so much pressure that they basically killed him. The harsh reality is that the only people who know about this are also people who know about the shady history of reddit...
Just as garbage because he was a free-speech absolutist the same way Elon Musk is
Everyone says they’re for free speech until someone with an opposing opinion uses free speech.
Edit: damn, someone MENTIONING racism in the replies freaked some of you out. Maybe don’t call someone triggered when you’re the one who is replying over and over again to someone? To me, the people who got triggered is pretty obvious. One assertion of belief made some of you create at least five angry replies. That’s a little pathetic
but reddit was really about it until 2016, when the reddit CEO's chosen presidential pick lost. Then it all changed
Exactly
@@BaronUnderbite what do you mean?
I support people expressing opinions contrary to mine. I like to know who my enemies are. I would rather that racists be public than private, so that I know who's lives I want to try to ruin instead of having to guess if someone is racist.
@@Raez_XL reddit was bought by the DNC, and rampant censorship and self administered bot armies (to manufacture consent) is its solution to never allow "a trump situation" to happen again.
Reddit is now the definition of "When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say."
Ong
Yup, account suspended a week after downloading app. Complete loon circle jerk.
But what about he talks about white supremacism?
@@juliaanfloressThan let them ramble and be judged. If it it minor, they will be shamed by their community. If it is major, they will end up in jail.
But no matter what, the 1st ammendment must be protected
@@blinkerz4676So if the redditor didn’t live in the USA you’d be ok with current policies as they are?
Glad to see Aaron Swartz hasn’t been forgotten. A genius who was a brilliant mind with a good moral compass.
The irony is all scientific papers are completely free now. They murdered him for no reason.
Incompatible with capitalism. If Aaron was in charge, Reddit would have been shut down by the Feds for interfering with profits.
He really deserves better than this
yeah, u/spez can go trip and fall into a vat of boiling deep fryer oil, he's turning reddit from a platform of free speech into a communist, authoritarianist, totalitarianist regime where he gets all the power, the the reddit admins and volunteers, including the basement dwellers, get no benefits
Spez is ruining Reddit
It's kinda sad, because Reddit could have been something truly great... But no, they had to go down such an awful path.
Never
Yeah they are digging their own grave
it wont matter, in a few months money will be irrelevant as AI improves
😢😢😢😢
@@clusterstage keep dreaming in 50 years maybe.
Reddit's shutdown is also proving how terrible search websites like google, yahoo, etc., truly are. Every time i searched for something reddit was always top of the search with the answers i seeked. Meanwhile, every other selection was basically useless, pointless information.
Honestly I’ve done the same, then got a much better response from ChatGPT. From now on, I think AI will be how I search for silly questions and new things .
Getting verification from reddit is the dumbest move ever.
I'm with you, calculated declination. But maybe, the information has been too centralized and we need to evolve to something more immune to capitalism. Maybe Reddit was just a stepping stone on the way to something better.
I’m glad to hear others have noticed this. Search engine results are seriously garbage now. I think partly because informative websites dedicated to a topic are replaced by people chasing clout on social media.
@@cactiguide Oh it's absolutely 100% search engine optimization. Which means unless there's a major intervention by one of the search engines, it's going to get worse and worse and worse. The people aren't in control of the search engine; we just want to use it. So the people in control (googlers, for example) Carry the burden of overcoming people circumventing the very purpose of a search engine.
Which also means that by Reddit going down, search engines now have a giant gaping wound that they have to actually address. So maybe this can be a catalyst for something good.
Lol or they just say duck it and watch the world burn.
Reddit has been crap for years.
The users and power mods made it a hell hole and heaven forbid you go against the hive mind.
The second Soez admitted to using admin power to edit people’s comments it was over.
Why would any person of influence post there on an AMA only to risk the owner changing the comments after the fact.
The second that happened the site was dead.
yeah they afraid of someone with humanity in them
I don't know much about reddit so I'm wondering why people don't like reddit users?
@@sosyaldemokrat4135 Because they tend to be toxic basement dwellers that cluster into cult like cliques encouraged by karma farming. So generally anyone dogpiles on anything against the hive mentality of that given subreddit.
The front-page of Reddit is anything but organic. You see what they want you to see. It's no different than turning on the nightly "news."
at the start of the virus nonsense, people would say to me that they weren't getting their information from the news, but from their own research. that meant they were being fed info from Reddit
@@TheParadiseParadox Thank you. Don't even get me started on their race baiting, white supremacists, LGBTQ+++ nonsense. Once you see the pattern of what content gets promoted, you can't unsee it. Also, if a post goes viral that violates the hivemind, it gets locked, and the comments deleted immediately. Reddit is a wonderful idea, ruined by terrible people.
More accurately just reading the headline of the front page reddit posts. That's as deep as a redditors "independent unbiased research" goes
I never even visit the top page other than by a clicking mistake. I visit specific subreddits directly.
Im so sorry Aaron, you didn't deserve to be trampled by greed
FBI...
While its sad he killed himself he denied the government their ability to trample on his rights. Not the best picture but its true.
Can't let a good tool for mass brainwashing go to waste eh
@@zombiemachinery4868 Greed is everywhere my sweet summer child
@@battokizu They already trampled his rights so no it did not help and that is a bogus idea to be recirculating in your head geez
Very true. Reddit lost its charm and integrity when it went ballistic with its censorship policies. Not anymore a platform where people can share their honest opinions and thoughts
It was already over years before that. When power hungry fools gained control. Easy it was them to do the bidding of the master. Now it's a machine that is dying and I'm happy.
Its hard to believe reddit used to actually be a bastion of free speech and new ideas. Now its just a arm of the DNC
@@filthycasual9381 wow lol perhaps you need to hang out with better women
LONG LIVE 4CHAN BITCHES. IF 4CHAN FALLS, THEN ITS FUCKING OVER. AND WE WILL GO OUT WITH GUNS. THE ROBOT ARMAGEDDON WILL START AND WE WILL UNITE AS AN ARMY.
They tried to make it more advertising friendly but ultimately drove the traffic away from the site
I like how the internet was made to be a place where you can share what you want with the world, then corporate greed pokes at it to create revenue where it really shouldn't be made, and years, years later we get to a point where some of the worst examples of greed on the internet are slowly decorperateizing and drowning from their corruption of an amazing place.
I've always said social media is "un policeable". and fewer and fewer companies (meta) own more and more
Reddit is full of the biggest pessimists of all time. Everyone there is a 'victim' when They are their Own Problem. It used to be good, now it's just pathetic
Deleted my account last week. Saw enough redditors get doxxed for having the wrong politics. Let them try and figure out who is instead.
Ya know, this is like the fourth video I've seen about this dumpster fire, but I've only heard one person say the tough pill - stop using the site. Stop voting with your digital dollar by using the site.
I quit reddit ages ago when the autism group turned on me... a bunch of social outcasts made me THEIR social outcast because i dared to ask if it was ok to be a conservative in thier group that was supposed to be welcome to ALL autistic ppl. Hint... its not!
@@AliciaGuitar That's pretty much the entirety of the "tech" world. If you're a conservative, you'll never find a home unless you make one yourself.
I mean considering all interesting subreddits are down, I don't think it needs to be said.
I stopped using when they banned The RedPill.
Exactly. I left when the shuttered thedonald. That sub was hysterical and that crowd made Reddit super fun. Pao ruined Reddit. I haven’t been back since the day they censored and I hope they all burn in digital hell. ❤
I'll be honest, I have mixed feelings about the whole Reddit shutdown. For one, I'll be sad if reddit dies cuz it's a place for me to educate myself and entertain too but, the positive notes are at least the cancer of reddit is destroyed and everybody's free from it. Funny story: I've tried to point out that the Karma system is like the Chinese social credit system and I was censored for it.
The only bad thing about the potential shut down of Reddit is the loss of educational material and discussion. Many subreddits are the only or the best places to find info on niche, personal, or specific topics, and it would be terrible for these spaces to be lost. One of the best subs is A2C, and I know so many people who would be lost without it.
Tell me your Indian without telling me your Indian
Because Chinese government is one of its investor
I don't think so. It's more like Reddit's version of friends, followers, or subscribers. But no one is forcing you to have more karma than someone else.
@@phoneheaded Agreed, that's the part I'll miss as well. I've gotten a lot of good answers to really obscure, niche questions on reddit and I don't know of another place on the internet that makes that so convenient and easy. Dividing the platform into groups (subreddits) was a great idea because it allows people with niche interests and knowledge to easily find one another and have discourse.
Frankly, I never liked Twitter, and at a friend's suggestion, I tried Reddit....and honestly, I think it's just as toxic , but with more words. All the fake outrage, political division over inconsequential issues, fantasies and conspiracy theories treated like true abd valid realities ....abuse, power trips.... it's everything that sucks about the internet, without being Facebook.
Redditors also dredge up petty drama from years ago for attention and validation much more than Twitter users too.
It’s more anonymous than Facebook. It’s like if 4chan and Facebook had the unholy baby from Berserk.
I at least know Reddit is where a lot of people go for questions that are too specific for google and to share ideas and content, so this will definitely affect them if they don’t change things.
The internet is getting destroyed and there's nothing we can do about it. Already millions of old posts on Reddit and other forums are useless since imgur deleted old photos and content posted without an account. Photos that were used for tutorials and other informative archived content
I do wish Reddit disappear forever, regardless of all beneficial thing has the community has a good share of Toxicity which makes any simple argument into a fucking drama because it is Fact. or they can't accepted it. I do Find it appalling this site hosting CIA, MOSAD, and other spying agency.
I've switched over to lemmy. It's still early days but it's part of the fediverse so at least it's fully user controlled
1)Reddit is misinformation. 2)Do your own research. 3)People are biased and hivemind there. 4)There are better sources, asking random people is useless.
@@ThomasBlinuxguyI seriously dont understand how people think that Reddit is "education" or that asking randos there is bettee than doing your own research.
I tried reddit once.. my post got picked over by mods (it was just a non offensive general post about ghosts) and then I found out I couldn't engage with users without 'karma' .. the level of snobbery and "post power" totalitarian-like behaviour was disgraceful. Fk Reddit.
Ironically, communists claim to desire a classless society but LOVE the class system, classes of people with power over the "peasant".
My exact experience. Just left it
I think that's to help prevent bots
@@racool911 nah just wrong think, if they can easily ban people they can effortlessly ban bots.
@@Infelious Bots can just randomly and quickly make new accounts so banning them is useless.
The censorship there has been the worst ive ever seen, Facebook didnt ever shine a light on what Redditors would do.
Seen resetera?
@@yuukimasamura5143 good lord.
I dropped Reddit years ago when one of the moderators banned me for something completely ridiculous. It only takes once for me. I have been praying for their implosion ever since. It will happen, patience is a virtue🕯
What were you banned for tho?
A platform that cares, and actually punishes the mere opinion of a differing personal sexual lifestyle choice; and because of that, decides the proper action is you should be banned for life within AA alcoholism and drug-rehabilitation forums is so totalitarian and far gone their chance for salvation is about as good as me getting drunk off a bottle of Jack Daniels personally handed to me by zombie Adolf Hitler wearing a rainbow reddit beanie.
Dude same. Reddit mods are pussies just because you asked a simple question too.
@@fluffy_knight I got banned for calling someone a Retard, that person called the religion of Islam evil and was making ignorant comments about people in the Middle East, I’m not religious but I don’t think you should judge someone based on the religion they follow, also he didn’t get banned from that sub but I did somehow
@@burntbread5110 you can rage without saying the r word though
As a RUclips OG , I'd like to welcome Redditers to the graveyard, RUclips was incredible from 2006-2016 .
Oh wow, does this finally mean reddit mods have to actually go outside to see sunlight and touch grass now?
Let's be honest here, they're just gonna wank off to lolis instead, just this time without also being on Reddit.
no thats why they are only doing 2 days lmao
That’s discord and twitch mods that need to touch grass
literally just a day ago I posted my first post ever on reddit on a manga subreddit, it was getting good engagement for about 4 hours. Then I just receive a message that it was deleted by a mod lmao.
I sure hope they do…lord knows they fucking need it.
Reddit hasn't been fun for a while now. The popular posts and r/all seem to be just from people who are perpetually offended.
Reddit Moderators is what I imagine enforcement agents of the U.S.S.R must have been like. Absolutely vile people.
Its the most 'power' they will ever have in their life.. being an internet janitor that is
And you are correct. As a daughter of parents who went through Communism, it's all true.
you just know the mods think they are justice league when they assemble
Just so people know Spez was also the moderator for r/jailbait, he basically participated on the spreading of illegal material and grooming minors. Just want people to know this.
Seriously? Tell me ur kidding
that explains a lot
I knew the king would return one day. Glad to see ya bro.
Damn you are still alive
Based spez
Imagine if people took this energy to the government and big corporations.
Sadly much like many things that need change, there is a lack of will to actually pursue it.
At least individually, each person can block and stop using reddit forever. That's a small step anyone can do
They kinda already have
Reddit is really, really bad - the people who post there - even about light topics like skincare and fashion - are an angry mob, waiting to pounce on anyone who expresses an opinion different from theirs. It is horrible.
It’s not like RUclipsr or twitter is anything better
@@zihechen3111 RUclips is better. There are classical music symphonies you can't find on any streaming service; plus channels dedicated to chemistry, philosophy, literature, Lego, sport! Twitter is horrible and I've never used it.
they really are. it's interesting you should say that. presumably those are female mods. glad it happens for both genders..
@@dands999 yup female mods and posters. Really awful state of affairs.
Yeah, I've rarely been bashed on and never been banned for expressing an opinion on any other site, but the people who dwell on Reddit are horrible.
The Reddit Karma system anyways is broken. It promotes bubbles, as due to karma you get punished to speak out unpopular opinions.
It rewards lazyness of mind in general.
You're absolutely right. In covid times I posted a general "give your opinion" about libraries, the right to get educated vs the masked obligation to get vaccinated.
I got answers like "get vaccinated you mf selfish" or "why ask, don't think and get vax".
Popular opinions are not always the good ones. Think with your brain and not with the number of upvotes you see.
I dream of a world where people think by themselves and get a real opinion.
But we're going the wrong way. We don't need social medias. Because today, your success is based on how incredible your post is, even if it's bullshit/scripted.
We need a true reward system. But we'll never get there, or if we do it'll be too late
The real issue with reddit happens to be the mod and karma system
The "karma points" system is just like the social credit system at this moment
Karma points literally mean nothing
@@GunsAndAmmo3 except if you don’t have Karma you can’t actually take part in a community. So you have to pander to opinions you don’t share just to get karma to be able to engage on the site.
@@emilem12 literal NPC-jak behavior
Well false flagging is another major problem. Im on my 6th account - getting false flaged by users who disagree with me.
I've seen terrible things on the internet, but nothing has tarnished my hope for humanity more than reading reddit comments.
Those comment just reflect the far left/woke mentality.
@@sylviam6535 wholesome 100 chonker big chungus moment!!!1!!!🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
seriously reddit is a fucking hive mind and gives me nausea, saying this as an ex redditor
i quit in 2021 btw
@@cyberdemon6517 Exactly the same I felt god
Best reddit thread was " average redditor " made fun of all the pedos there
@Ayla excellent choice
i made my account in mid 2019
by the time 2020 came around i was scrolling on 2meirl4meirl and other depressive subreddits
plus i got banned from shit for being myself
oh and HURR DURR NO EMOJIS
so yea reddit makes you depressed you made the good choice by quitting👍🏻
I remember when the censorship started because half of the reddits I was a part of were just booted out of nowhere. Not to mention the ones that remain are nothing more than just echo chambers at this point.
Care to name a few? Or are you afraid to?
Man this is freaky, just yesterday I was trying to access the subreddit for HBO'S Succession and it was private....i was so frustrated. Thanks for clearing up the air Moon
Can't wait for you to hit 1MILLION!!!!
That's been happening to me a lot
Happened to me a few days a lot of subreddits are either banned or set to private.
This is good
This is good
Crazy that all the news talks about Reddit going dark it’s like the media wants Reddit to be alive
Reddit is a propaganda machine
@@Hypnotically_Caucasianliterally.
@@Hypnotically_Caucasian Anything against the propaganda is "extreme far alt right" and throw in all the other buzzwords for good measure
It's because reddit pushes the left narrative as hard as it can. Any other opinion gets not only downvoted, but instantly deleted. Fee speech is dead. Fuck reddit.
MSM: Reddit going DARK! Oh no! REEEE!
The sane internet:
On one hand it sucks that Reddit went down such a shit path, on the other hand I think it’s funny and stupid that the mods announced an end date to the protest. They’re probably worried they’re gonna get replaced lol
A.I could replace them in a second .
And it should.
Good riddance I say. Its turned into a breeding ground of emotinally ill people finally having some sort of control.
@@KaiDuncan no no it should not. AI is way better at censorship
@@KaiDuncan No dude..... AI would be 10x worse (at least). I would rather have the power hungry basement dweller than a AI who causes even more issues.
If they get replaced the protest ends anyway, because Reddit's staff would have appointed people who supported the new policies blindly and would have reopened everything anyway.
I asked my students about reddit yesterday and they groaned. I asked what online site as a forum is positive and fun to use. They said there wasn't a place they could go without malicious content. Then one student said, Pinterest was sole cite she felt was immune from malicious, and polarizing content. Sad.
@@user-hv1jo8oz4h I will. Thank you for the advice.
Reddit has a lot of useful information and fun subreddits, but it wouldn't kill me if Reddit became the next Tumblr or MySpace.
It already is.
Just use lemmy,
I Hope it does.
Most subreddits there are bad and reddit spreads misinformation.
@@KrisKol83Most subreddits there are bad and useless and reddit spreads misinformation of all sorts. Do your own research.
Many subreddits are going dark for 48 hours, from June 12th through June 14th, but some have chosen to stay private indefinitely until something changes at Reddit. That said, the platform seems unwilling to budge. CEO Steve Huffman held the company line during an AMA on Friday, angering many Reddit users and causing some subreddits to go private earlier than planned. I asked Reddit on Sunday if it still planned to move forward with the API pricing, and Rathschmidt said the company wasn’t planning any changes to what’s been announced.
Even if they changed the new API policy, it would only be a PR makeup which then later down the line, they would revert back to their greedy policies even further..
@@linuxjodi4311 reddit is popular it's not dying.
Apple is an example
I know right just take a vacation
Who are you? Are you of credibility?
Honestly I am so sick of reddit mods it is nice to see them cry for once. Reddit used to be a bastion of free speech, now it is just slightly edgier than facebook. I'm not all that sad about it.
the lord came??
@@SuperNostalgia.idgaf, npc
This whole "vulnerability of the site" is funny, do people not think that someone isnt just gonna make copies of the popular subs that go offline indefinitely? Do people think that there aren't a line of people waiting to become mods? This strike is stupid and usually I am always on the side of the strikers
@@SuperNostalgia. That has nothing to do with reddit. lmao
Same here. My account got permanently suspended because I was criticizing how hostile most of the comments were. The best part is that I got suspended because of "harrassment" to other users
Very informative! One suggestion: the existence of non-corporate alternatives to Reddit such as the Fediverse projects Lemmy and kbin would have been worth mentioning. They've gained a lot of users over the last few days, and are very active.
They're left-wing and this channel is right-wing, so it won't mention them
@@thewhitefalcon8539 But technology HAS no wings. Unless it's an airplane, of course. And if they don't like the politics of the programmers, why don't they just start their own instance with their own political slant? Apparently there are right-wing Lemmy instances.
@@thewhitefalcon8539politics🤢🤢🤢
@@mistjor6286 pu ssi
One of the most echo chamber inducing and negativity prone social media sites going down isn't a bad thing.
Reddit is a cesspool
@@Umbrella_TV they both are, but reddit is worse
You're telling me that Reddit users and mods will now be forced to go outside and experience reality?
Maybe this isn't such a bad thing after all.
It is tho. They aren't fit for society anymore
@@xxOnigiri99last time they went outside was 12 years ago
Good news: they finally go outside and touch grass
Bad news: they start to invade all other social media platform
No they'll just flood to 4chan
Or worse they migrant from reddit to other platform
Ahh. Thank you for reporting on this. I clicked on this video in part because I noticed a lot of my favorite subreddits have been set to private very recently and I was highly aggravated by this and clicked this video hoping you had an explanation, and indeed you do. I salute you for that sir
Honestly I love imagining Spez laughing at his office, bathing in money, seeing all the subreddits come back after 48 hours of "protesting"
And then suddenly ad revenue gets a hit because dozens of top subs started posting porn and John Oliver
@@ZorotheGalladeyes and many people left huge subreddits due to po*n, reddit is dying 😢
We must destroy Reddit. It is but a pale shadow of what it used to be.
The entire internet is that way now because companies became too big to fail. When they needed us it was great, now "You're disposable". People should have ditched social sites ages ago. Now it's just a trail of every dumb thing you've said 😂
hack and destroy servers. Completely delete it from the internet.
@@punkhop23 I thought the point was to stop the API paywall crap, how will deleting it from the internet fix that?
@@terrorists-are-among-us Yeah without a doubt. I'm honestly surprised the fad didn't die. I have no open accounts on any of the Major Social Platforms. RUclips is about as close as it comes for me.
@@monbeauparfum1452 no such thing. Someone or some entity will always have the control.
The Redditor Mods basically killed Reddit because they weren't getting their demands and now the CEO is like, "Fuck all my mods are going on strike."
The Jannies Strike Back
This. This entire protest is fully the fault of greedy mods engaged in a power struggle with their bosses - and they decided to break everyone's toys along with it. Kind of poetic, if this ends up destroying the platform.
@@horvathbenedek3596 It's hilarious ngl. That they are greedy and the CEO is greedy so the CEO wants to make money so he can pay his unpaid workers /w cookies and chips while he parties with hookers and cocaine. XD
honestly, fuck these power mods. Reddit should just unprivate all these subs and allow users to request being the new mods while these dumbasses are on strike. I'm ready to coupe them and permaban them.
Total Mod Death!!!
TMD!
Reddit is a perfect representation of literally everything that is wrong with the Internet (and honestly people) as a whole. The sooner it's gone, the better.
Reddit nearly destroyed my mental health. Its a website that promotes the cure to problems like loneliness by making you addicted, and therefore even lonelier. It prays on vulnerable people and it knows it. There are benefits to it, but to me it really made my life worse while I was there. If it wasn't for the potential job loss Id be more than happy to watch that antissocial website burn.
RIP Aaron, and fuck the FBI
This is exactly what it is. And I want it to burn too.
There seems to be confusion of the decision to now charge for API access. All third-party app developers for Reddit _do not_ have an issue with paying. The issue they have is the ridiculous price.
Apollo’s developer pays Imgur $166 for 50m API calls. Reddit wants to charge $12,000 for 50m API calls.
It's the Redditor's fault. I hate Reddit but I stand with the company.
I got banned from r/nursing for being "anti-vaxx" for not being pro-mandated covid vaccines back in 2020 (and I've had every mandated vaccine from birth thru the beginning of covid). I tried to submit an appeal last year and got my account suspended for "harassment" because of the appeal. The downfall of that echo-chamber is way past due.
I threatened the mods on an on sight ting so badly when i got banned from main page subreddits for being part of NNN. They just came back and said my account would be in danger, acting like i'm gonna cry or something. Ohh no don't ban me modern leftist reddit 🤣
They were right to ban you. You are an idiot.
Totally true. I just wrote a comment that supports your view. This cesspool can go down for good. Free speech is dead anyway, so is reddit already.
I disagree with a lot of "antivax" stuff, but i agree on 2 of the most important points: freedom to refuse a vaccine, and freedom to say why
ALL vaccubes are poison, not just covid. wake up, they are evil
Few websites have done more to stifle discussion on the internet as reddit. I'd say it's even worse than twitter in that regard. Every aspect of it is designed to maximize conformity and pander to the lowest common denominator.
That was the smoothest sponsor segment transition ever no cap
This will be *The Age of Touching Grass* for the mass Reddit Refugees
@@InternetDrone They will get their covid jab spike germs all over it
@@InternetDrone Reddit accommodates a very special kind of morons.
Many will get sunburned within 5 minutes as a lot of redditors have no concept of "outside"
The hero’s journey
@@InternetDrone Then they'll be touching soil instead.
:)
It's happening to every site that's driven by passionate content creators.
Ad revenue is needed to pay the bills past a certain point. Advertisers start dictating what kind of content they want their ads slapped on. Creators start buckling to this nudging. Gotta bleep out every swear word and stop making edgy, critical or non-woke commentaries. Then corporations just use creators as conduits for eyeballs -> ads.
No matter what the content is now, no matter how pathetic, banal, loud, annoying, derivative or soulless. As long as eyeballs are on ads, they'll pay out.
yup, advertisers are also the real modern day book burners of the internet. After all, it used to be easier to find what info your looking for on the internet without it being behind someone's paywall, or censored.
I mean I absolutely agree to the hate on advertisers, what astonishes me is people saying "ehh they don't want anything not woke!" Below a Moon video with a sponsor.
@@Bobylein1337"what ever do you mean, there's a few companies that aren't like this"
🤡
This to me honstely reeks of forcing people to spend money they don't have. Why would advertisements need to get more and more aggressive if that wasn't the case?
I actually used the vpn before this video, it is quite good.
someone please get a full archive of reddit so the obscure questions that were answered on there are still available
Even now, you have mods who ban users from 'their' subreddits based on nationality, identity, political and other opinions- posted on *other* subreddits.
While reddit being shut down could remove a lot of awful stuff from the internet, terrible people will find another site. Predatory stuff will always be here and just move to another site.
separate issue
@@RickMyBalls Indeed. All we would need is to have a good site for good people and content. Like the good ol' forums we used to have before reddit. Hopefully reddit collapse will contribute that.
@@TheSimoc yeahh, I actually like forums because they are getting indexed by search engines too. but forums aren't that popular as Reddit, so..
for example, Telegram is not getting indexed by search engines, so it's a really bad platform for getting your quesitons answered
@@TheSimoc any community that replaces reddit and gets as big will have the quality dilute just like any other website that ever got big.
@@RickMyBalls Yes, exactly. Which is why I despise reddit and all centralized "social media sites", instead I prefer subject-specific forums we used to have thousands in good ol' days (well, just a decade-and-odd ago), and I meant we need them back, in place of reddit.
I got a Reddit account a couple years ago.
I was banned on my first day.
I've been unable to share posts on Reddit for months so I give up it's worse than Twitter
You know the world’s fucked when Twitter starts to seem like a reasonable option
These internet hall monitors have to come to terms with the fact theyre not as important as they think. No one cares if it will become harder for them to censor others or if they step down from the ranks of internet nobility. But they might just burn it all down out of spite to prove how important they are. In that case, i hope they succeed.
Me too. As far as I’m concerned, there are no “good guys” in this particular fight.
@@forsociopoliticalstuff2629The good guys were Apollo, who literally have nothing to do with the blackout lmao
Reddit was the best site that didn't boast itself on what others used to or are trying to like Instagram is becoming everything and Facebook is becoming everything it couldn't acquire. Reddit was simply forum social media site which was mostly text and that is what resonates with us who are using it for over 15 years. I might and have deleted all SMs but not reddit but current state of money-mindedness and arrogance, is making me delete this by the end of this month.
I deleted it tonight.
As someone that used reddit for around the same time I concur.
One interesting thing that the community had been trying was making all of the communities into NSFW communities. Many aren't actually letting people post porn or gore, but by just making a community NSFW, it disallows ads appearing in it, cutting into their profits.
That's bad.
@@iac92 Well, yeah, that's the point.
@antidegeneracy you filthy little corpo bootlicker! Shame on you!
that's not bad, that's (sort of) intelligent. that's the ballgame advertisers have to play
The only reason I wouldn’t want it down is because that won’t get rid of the Redditors, it’ll just migrate them.
They announced that the blackout will be for 48 hours so it won't change anything at all.
If they said they will blackout until the revert the changes then it may have caused more havoc and back tracking.
Not all of them. Some plan to go on for a week or never at all if this API thing does through.
I have no sympathy for Redditors that stayed after the exodus in the 2010's.
When did that exodus happen?
@@professional.commentator over time for the most part no specific point but the more greedy the power mods got the more people left
whats an exodus?
@@kytesav when people flee somewhere en masse towards safer locations
in reddit's case, people fled towards youtube and instagram
Yeah but what about the people who got dragged in after?
I won't be leaving Reddit, I'll find new communities to replace the ones that shut down permanently
This might just be the video to get you to 1 million, @Moon, it's been a long time coming!
Reddit gonna be fine since the protest only last 2 days
Should have been indefinite but Redditors will want to Reddit
A sub I follow isn't participating in the blackout, and the users were complaining to the mods about why they weren't participating. Like 2 days is really going to do anything.
It is indefinite! Do you think they would just go “oh a two day blackout is enough” NO! Sick of seeing people saying stuff that you could debunk if looked at it for more than a nanosecond
If reddit would disappear, a lot of helpful posts would go with it. I literally first go to reddit before Google when looking for help on something.
Probably 90% of all problems I searched for help for was solved through reddit.
You have too many problems.
same, anything I want to google I add "reddit" at the end and pretty much get an answer instantly, instead of searching 300 pages on google
@@frapsATV Yes! Precisely, and it's usually people answering from experience and knowledge on a certain subject.
@@trabant3060 You never search google for anything you need help on?
Once upon a time there were forums. Many of them have gone away due to Reddit hoovering up entire communities due to the convenience of Reddit. There are still some forums, I encourage you to seek them out. I miss a lot of those old forums. Decentralization meant that you didn’t have a handful of bad mods banning users and content they didn’t like.
Their CEO must be completely out of touch with reality and of how their own systems work. If they remove their mods, their own system will shutdown all the sections of their site that is unmoderated. If the thinks firing unpaid volunteers is going to work he's got a massive bill waiting for him, now he will have to pay employees to moderate their website which is going to cost them.
When reddit shuts down, nothing of value will be lost.
The worst part is how much information is available on Reddit. Finding answers to questions is so much easier because Reddit exists and even in this small timespan, it's become clear just how much information I find through Reddit posts.
I think most people even tack on "Reddit" at the end of searches because chances are, someone there already answered the question in an easy to understand way.
If anyone still need some of the information you can used the cached pages on Google. That's how I get around subreddits being private.
-Just google search the title of the post on the subreddit or add reddit to the end of your search
-Open 3 dots by the link
-drop down V in the side menu
-Cached
and now the cached page should load
Do you not realise you were being directed there? It's pretty obvious if you think about it.
I imagine a site like Quora would take Reddit's place as the go-to question-answering social media platform. Yahoo Answers is another option, but I honestly haven't checked that in *years*.
Bro! Typing “Reddit” at the end of every google search is a bad habit of mine’s. Quora answers are too wordy.
Issue is that corpos hate information because it might "conflict" with their investors. Ever notice how you can't get any useful information unless you pay a subscription or go on campus in inconvenient times if you take a college course? That's because of banks BTW. After all, the harder it is to get information, the easier it is for an institution to kick you off of financial aid when your fail the course, making it easier for banks to scam you into student loan debt. Why do you think colleges go so hard on cheaters when the only people they are harming is themselves?
Stopped using Reddit 5-6 years ago and it’s been good and cut out all social media minus a throw away Twitter account and cut back using discord. Mentally have felt so much better. Glad Reddit is crumbling cause too many are hooked to it and every day many many times a day open these apps.
It's a mental cesspool. Glad you left
Don't think it will save much, even if it goes, other platforms will replace it and people will just go the next thing.
I stopped using it in 2016, but I still have the app on my phone. After hearing this I'm going to delete my acct and uninstall the app. Not sure why I haven't already other than holding on to hope that'd return to its glory days. That's clearly not going to happen.
Reddit is designed to make out of you an addict.
I've really felt this strike, been going through some hard times and tried to get help from reddit and couldn't access anything. I really hope it works.
Reddit:
Where the most helpfull answer is always censored
I’m truly sorry Aaron, you didn’t deserve this and you didn’t deserve your legacy to be made into this.. rest in peace.
I am glad and seen this coming. I had an account for years and got perma banned by a mod for the slightest offense. Tried to appeal, gave up and now cant wait to watch them fail!!!
And I hope that worthless mod has no life after it shuts down. It wont be able to find a real job.
I really hoped to just be able to ignore the terrible administration of Reddit. I always loved the long form content on Reddit, comments on Reddit always are way more informative than other platforms, and that’s why I used it. I will probably move to twitter but it won’t be the same. I really hope there will be a good alternative for Reddit.
Don’t move to twitter - it’s almost dead too.
QUORA
BRAINLY
CHATGPT
@@Username12038 great alternatives bro
If only someone could hit Netflix this hard…
Reddit banned me for no reason. Glad karma isn't playing around. They definitely deserve their downfall and negative press is all i gotta say
I got banned on two separate usernames. They are _really_ sensitive when anyone brings up the nexus of the alphabet people and the one who _really_ want to bone kids.
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People will be the rudest assholes to you but you lose your entire account for calling someone an idiot 😂
@@nousername2942I got banned for speaking the truth
i got banned for saying there are 2 genders
Hopefully the people of Reddit have somewhere else to tell their fake stories 🙏
Sad day
twitter !!!!, jk its also bad lmao
4chan
@squarohedron0664 We don't want them.
In hindsight, I agree a two day blackout was gonna accomplish nothing. That being said, I do think setting subs to Restricted could've been a good compromise so people can still view content while denying Reddit any new posts. In fact, I don't understand why r/Games even bothers having comments on Restricted posts when most of them are gonna be hidden. It's especially bad since that sub has weekly posts like Suggest Me a Game which can't be used to their full potential due to most of the comments being hidden.
This will end like how most online protests do.
With jack shit changing.
Ive personally only been a mild user of reddit so this barely affects me.
But man, are they screwing up with the way theyre doing the blackout.
All anyone has to do is wait 2 days and thats it.
Not much of a protest imo.
Ohhh yeah look at how inisghtful and smart you are by being bitter and spiteful. grow up you big baby.
Hands up to those who never used Reddit 💯
Yeah I always barely used it. Always hated the format and community.
@@mrjohnnyk ikr
I only used the communities for guides on my tech ventures ...
I use it just for some good fap before nap
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Ahh, seeing moon and muta in a video together makes me smile. Love both.
Reddit in the beginning was the internet for the people. Reddit today is pretty much facebook community guidelines.
Another great video Moon! I really appreciate the hard work bro. You do an excellent job with every aspect of content production 👌🏼👍🏻👍🏻✌🏼
Silent majority here. I was just using reddit to get answers and now everything even the silliest video game topic is set to private. It's truly annoying but I believe the reasons can justify. I've heard censorship was insane but never noticed since I was just reading.
Same here. Quite a shock actually to read all of these comments. I guess we were saved by not talking about Western politics.
Mods really said "Lets go outside for 2 days, but then i wanna go on my favorite sub reddits! So only 2 days!"
As Reddit went dark, I saw more RUclips Shorts and Movie/TV stuff. I feel like there might be some connection. Or it's RUclips being RUclips.
On a separate note, I feel sad about Reddit because I actually enjoy the content people create and the communities we build. After what I heard, I don't think I will ever see Reddit the same way again.
Dude how does Moon pump these videos out so fast and so topical, much needed in this crazy world. Also I am 100% positive that RUclips is shadowing your videos dude, you are getting BIG TIME throttled and not surprising why, these vids hit a bit too close to home for those in Silicon Valley.
Ironically, his video “why I hate Elon Musk” is one of his most successful ones. Guess why this is.
I make sure to save them as soon as they go up; never can be sure if it’ll get nuked before I can watch it.
It's easy when you basically have it automated with a team of freelancers
I stopped using reddit last year because the mods were censoring everybody, the website deserves to die off into irrelevance (as well as the mods)
I use to make fun of them in twitter
Great video, but I would've also liked to see some talk about the federated alternatives that have gained popularity due to outrage from big social platforms. When Elon bought Twitter, people migrated to Mastodon and now with the Reddit blackout, people are looking at the decentralized alternatives like Lemmy and kbin.
The platforms work like email. There is no big email company, but many email providers where you can make your account and from there you are able to send emails to people who don't even use the same email provider. Same goes for these federated social platforms: You create an account on the website of the instance you like and from there you can view content from others on the same instance, but also content from other instances. Each instance has their own moderators and can choose to block other instances. Some instances have already blocked TRUTH Social for example, but if you don't like that, you can always move to another instance.
Moon didn't quite grasp the level of desperation that Reddit mods have for the tiny amount of power they have on that site.
thanks god, this webpage have done so much harm to internet users, too many weirdos and power hungry mods, it needs to go.
But that's not fair. How can these people feel any sortnof power and control in their lifes. Im not joking, im genuanelly curious?
@@thedesensitizedsympathizer5307 have a family get kids a real life job ?
Honestly reddit had it coming. Everything has it's consequences.
loved the first three minutes of this video. explained everything i needed to know while hooking me to watch the rest.
I was gonna end my life until I posted to Reddit and my now current roommates took me in.
TLDR: Moved across the country because I have migraines daily