I remember when Reddit announced it would begin charging commercial developers for access to its API, and in response, thousands of subreddits went dark in protest. I think it lasted for a couple of weeks. The CEO threatened the Reddit mods that he would replace them if they didn’t reopen the subs, so nearly every mod reopened and everything went back to normal. The CEO won easily without offering anything, and he was right when he said that ‘this too shall pass.’ Those third-party apps offered accessibility features for disabled people that Reddit still hasn’t implemented today. Now Reddit is getting even worse. How come there wasn’t a protest like that when they made even worse decisions?
You’re on a piefed instance, so theres some other guy, but he’s also… controversial.
Who’s the piefed one?
Rimu.
There was a shit storm recently where they had a big rant about contributors on piefed.social somewhere, and were deleting responses from those contributors trying to express their side of the story.
Pretty ugly really.
The quokk.au admins have forked the piefed repo, and pushed some features, so that might be a nice alternative in the future.