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Last week, Reddit published our Transparency Report for the second half of 2023, which shares data and insights about our content moderation and legal requests from July through December 2023. Reddit’s biannual Transparency Reports provide insights and metrics about content that was removed from Reddit – including content proactively removed as a result of automated tooling, accounts that were suspended, and legal requests we received from governments, law enforcement agencies, and third parties from around the world to remove content or disclose user data. An interesting data point for this network –  We’ve actually seen overall decreases in global government and law enforcement legal requests to remove content or disclose account information compared to the first half of 2023.  Read more in our report. https://lnkd.in/gAX49hFW I am very proud of the amazing work that our trust and safety, legal and other internal teams are doing to keep Reddit users safe and provide transparency about our efforts!

Hundreds of subreddits plan to go dark indefinitely after Reddit CEO’s internal memo - https://lnkd.in/gr5rhwis - ( New Post Shared by www.shipwr3ck.com ) - More than 300 subreddits, including popular ones like r/aww, r/music r/videos, and r/futurology, plan to go dark indefinitely after a large protest against Reddit’s API changes ends on June 14. This means users won’t be able to access these communities during this blackout. This step was announced after The Verge reported that in an internal memo, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said “Like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well”. Huffman said in the memo that the blackout hasn’t caused any significant impact on the company’s revenue. Over the last few days, (June 12-14) thousands of subreddits have gone dark to protest API changes by the platform that will potentially shut down many third-party apps. Because of these subreddits going dark, the site briefly faced an outage on June 12. A post on Twitter suggested that this blackout impacted a large portion of Reddit’s activity. However, as Huffman suggested in the memo, a lot of the subreddits will be active again on Wednesday. Developers have also spun up a tracker site that tells users what subreddits are dark, restricted, or public. Reddit mods are planning a blackout tomorrow. While it is only around 5K subreddits, turns out a *large* portion of Reddit will go dark.https://t.co/HMhgEeO5l1 pic.twitter.com/PdDxj9SNYr — Joao Neto (@joao_p_n) June 11, 2023 Several subreddits are extending the blackout to June 20, with the readiness to extend it indefinitely. Reddit first announced that it is going to charge for its API in April. Earlier this month, Christian Selig, the developer behind popular third-party client Apollo said that in a call with Reddit, he learned about unaffordable API pricing. But as the company didn’t budge on its stance, he decided to shut down the Apollo on June 30. Other popular apps like Reddit Is Fun, Sync for Reddit, and ReddPlanet also shut down. In an AMA with users, Huffman strongly backed the new API pricing and even took jabs at Apollo and Selig. He said that, unlike some third-party apps, Reddit is not profitable and the company will  “continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive.” Reddit’s approach to making a lot more money is not surprising, given the company is reportedly planning to public this year. To cut costs, the social media platform laid off 5% of its staff last week and slowed down its hiring plans. If you want to talk more about the ongoing Reddit blackout, you can contact the reporter at [email protected] Hundreds of subreddits plan to go dark indefinitely after Reddit CEO’s internal memo by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch - <div><p>More than 300 subreddits, including popular ones like r/aww, r/music r/videos, and r/futurology, plan to go dark indefinitely after a la

Greed may be good. But letting it make you stupid is not. CAT (Content for AI Training), the fool’s gold rush de jure, has speared Reddit in its greedy heart. https://lnkd.in/gZDq_hsC When your business lives in an ecosystem requiring massive volunteer participation it is best to consider where your value originates that keeps your organization alive, thriving, and ultimately adapting. Reddit’s value does not arise from reselling user/customer created content. Regardless of what the most evil lawyers of our time say (IP lawyers), that attitude will kill the golden goose, not exploit it. Reddit’s value does originate from being the infrastructure where massive volunteer and user communities socialize. Reddit’s value is not derived from obtuse user agreements written with such careless self-interest that Reddit may abuse critical elements of its own ecosystem with impunity. Reddit cannot resell or lay privileged monetized claim on user provided content. It cannot afford to abuse critically supporting open source and voluntary elements of its environment. UA be damned, because that is the surest way to stop Reddit from thriving and surviving. Being anti-social when your core business rests on being the place to socialize is outright suicide. Facebook which plays fast and loose with its users could not do this either. For good reason Facebook intentionally protects its primary value of reselling intimate private details to third party message manipulators from being in the lime light. Whatever you do, never, ever poison your primary value delivered that keeps you in the game. Guess they needed a better Enterprise Business Architecture team which understands the primacy of self-sustaining value generation above all else. Someday soon this will be a classic business study, except in MBA schools where they mock the very notion of value because it does not have units measured in currency. MBA thinking of value limited to fungible value in the form of currency has killed many an enterprise while they deny that the much more important notion of existentential value even exits.

What is going on over at Reddit, Inc.? 🤔 It's like the 'front page to the internet' has apparently learned nothing from the relatively recent D&D OGL debacle! 😮 For those that don't know: Reddit has been severely impacted this past week, with 7.2k of the 7.8k subreddits being set to [Private], meaning they are no longer accessible by millions of non-members (eg the VAST majority of those browsing the site). This has been done in protest at Reddit's recently revealed plans to charge significant amounts (in some cases literally millions of dollars) for access to their API's - a rate quoted as being nearly one hundred times more than charged by other companies for similar API access (eg Imgur) As you can imagine, for a site created, run and moderated almost entirely by the users, this has been less than well received #WhoKnew I understand the desire to be a "self-sustaining business", and the challenges involved with managing content around the recent AI 'uprising', but come on! Predatory and exploitative pricing is only going to alienate the community, and piss off everyone who made the site what it is today - and good luck sustaining anything at all if all the users and developers (and moderators!) have had enough, and simply moved elsewhere! 😰 https://lnkd.in/gM37kK6D

A sentence from the SEC report on Reddit: "Redditors are unable to locate content that is interesting, useful, relevant, reliable, high-quality, or trustworthy to them, or otherwise find content available on our platform offensive, inappropriate, hostile, or otherwise objectionable;" Even Reddit Founders know/accept that their content is primarily personal experience and lacks expertise and trustworthiness. While search engines value both principles, they increase their rankings tremendously. Note: I suggest you observe Reddit's internal search changes in the coming months since they can access Google's internal models. #seo #reddit

Reddit suffers a major outage after thousands of subreddits temporarily shut down It's been quite a day for Reddit. Thousands of communities have temporarily closed shop to protest changes the company is making to its API, which is impacting several third-party apps. On top of that, the platform suffered a "major outage" across its desktop and mobile websites, as well as the mobile apps. "We're aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible," read a message on the Reddit status page as of 10:58AM ET. By 11:30AM, the site was loading again. "A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue," Reddit told Engadget in a statement. A bot was tracking all of the subreddits that were going private as part of the protests. As you might expect, the bot was out of commission while Reddit was down, but it's up and running again.Subscribe to the Engadget Deals NewsletterGreat deals on consumer electronics delivered straight to your inbox, curated by Engadget’s editorial team. See latestPlease enter a valid email addressPlease select a newsletterBy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. Reddit said in April...

Redditors have been around for a while, witnessing the social media platform’s various ups and downs. In the past year alone, Reddit has been through a lot: an IPO, AI-powered updates, API changes that resulted in major backlash…we could go on. Many users remain loyal to the platform. But for the select few who want to delete their accounts, or simply have too many social media accounts to handle, here’s a step-by-step guide on how to do it. Mashable Light Speed SEE ALSO: Reddit introduces an AI-powered tool that will detect online harassment Note: once you delete an account, you won’t be able to recover it. How to delete a Reddit account Step 1: Open Reddit on your desktop or smartphone. Once you’ve opened Reddit, make sure you’re logged in. Step 2: Click on your profile picture on the top-right corner of the screen. Credit: Mashable screenshot Step 3: Navigate to user settings. This is found in the drop-down menu when you click on your profile picture. Credit: Mashable screenshot Step 4: Scroll all the way down and click “Delete account”. Credit: Mashable screenshot Step 5: Enter your username and password. You’ll be asked to enter these details to proceed to the next step. Step 6: Make sure you’re sure. Reddit will let you know that you can’t recover your account once you delete it. Tick the box here. Step 7: Click delete. And you’re done! Topics Apps & Software Reddit var facebookPixelLoaded = false; window.addEventListener('load', function(){ document.addEventListener('scroll', facebookPixelScript); document.addEventListener('mousemove', facebookPixelScript); }) function facebookPixelScript() { if (!facebookPixelLoaded) { facebookPixelLoaded = true; document.removeEventListener('scroll', facebookPixelScript); document.removeEventListener('mousemove', facebookPixelScript); !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n; n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script','//https://lnkd.in/eY9zQvVb'); fbq('init', '1453039084979896'); fbq('track', "PageView"); } } Source link By Nakisisa George

Interesting thread going on over there on X.. Mark Williams-Cook pointed out reddit completely dominating a SERP that didn't quite make sense. I found an example myself and Google responded talking about search intent. In short, I think Google's systems are having an very hard time differentiating between users typing in reddit because they want results on reddit, or because they want information ABOUT reddit. Examples: - When did google add reddit filter? - Spam on reddit - What is reddit useful for? - Funny reddit usernames Ask yourselves for these searches, would the user want to see a result on reddit.com or another reputable source? Figuring out search intent is nothing new, and this happens all the time for queries with vague intent, but with the recent Google updates skyrocketing reddit's visibility, it seems very off-balance with that particular site. https://lnkd.in/ghjsYy9M

How to Report a Subreddit on Reddit Desktop and Mobile Alright, when it comes to platforms like Reddit that host a diverse variety of communities, talks & discussions never seem to take a break. And hence, factors such as order and respect become a priority. However, you might find a subreddit that goes too far and violates the rules & guidelines set by the platform. In such cases, you have the option to report and get the subreddit or users who abuse banned from Reddit. We will show you how to do the same, let’s get started. https://lnkd.in/e_xZedx8