I'm getting 1960s vibes. Reddit has been blacked out since a couple of days because some entity wants to charge third party somethings lots of money. So, the abbatoirs are punishing the sheeple.
Can somebody explain this to me? My browser got hijacked by the af.xdock.co virus and reddit is my go to for solutions. Now I'm at the mercy of whomever is stomping their foot. I'm a very minor player on the stage of devrant, and I find more sense spoken on this site than anywhere else. Thank you

reinstall... everithng =)

The super mods that abuse the reddit modding system are upset about this api change. They are the ones that are pushing back. What happens is someone says something they don't like and then do a reddit wide blacklist on this person. This as far as I know is against reddit rules to begin with. The only way to do this is via the external api. The reddit interface does not give you these tools. We are talking about mods that oversee hundreds of subreddits. There is also people abusing reddit to farm karma and are making money from this. The theory there is the external api helps with this. So reddit wants to charge for access to this api to cash in on this.

I honestly think the blackouts are kinda stupid regardless of the reasons.

@Demolishun > "I honestly think the blackouts are kinda stupid regardless of the reasons"

I frequent the r/Blazor every day (part of my rss feeds) and not sure where to go now to get my news. Microsoft devs also posted content there and would sometimes answer questions (much better than stackoverflow).

All this smells of

Mods: "If I can't have a cookie...no one will <blows up the Oreo factory>"

The world: "Dude...there are more cookies in the cabinet. What is wrong with y..."

Mods: "Ha ha ha!...burn burn...ha ha ha!"

> infected

rm -rf /

See it as a chance for something better to come up. Reddit has been going to shit for a long while...

@Demolishun These are all pretty serious claims that would be good justifications as part of official communication if they're true, but I hadn't heard them yet. Where do you get this from?

@lorentz I hear things

One of the patterns I hear about from time to time is people being in one subreddit they are active in. Then getting a notification for being permanently banned from a subreddit they have never heard of. So mods are banning people for what they say in one subreddit, though they have never been in the other subreddits. Which is weird. Which I think is against reddit rules. It is stalking across subreddits.

It's time to decentralise

@Demolishun I know about this pattern, but it's currently hearsay and reddit can prove it very easily if they want to. The part I doubt is that the company gives a fuck about this, because

- there are various much better ways to solve this than making the API stupid expensive

- I never heard this brought up in any remotely official news even though it would position the company as the good guys so they'd definitely not want to leave it out if it's already among the motives

- the much simpler explanation is that twitter did it and made a bunch of money so they think they can do it as well.

@lorentz the fact that they aren't shutting off the api and asking for money may mean they just want money. Maybe the rumors are a way to pretend to be the good guys.