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rogueslayer452++ Real life has been kicking my ass this month, but it's all good.
++ So, Reddit is currently in a blackout, with thousands of communities having gone private since Monday in protest of the site's newest API policies. While the CEO seems to be dismissing the whole thing, we've all seen this happen before. If you piss off your userbase or don't listen to when they have legitimate complaints, never mind minimizing and trivializing these concerns and the people it is affecting, they will abandon your site and go elsewhere. Already places such as Tumblr and even DW are extending a welcoming hand to Reddit refugees during the blackout protest, which is great, but at the same time it's pretty depressing that this even has to happen. While the place could be a cesspool depending on where one was located (much like anywhere on the Internet, lbr), I'll admit to lurking at certain subreddits, sometimes for the laughs but also for information, advice, and different opinions people had on things. It's also one of the rare places online these days that operates like a forum with different moderators, which is quite concerning since there's been a lot of worry surrounding the future of the Internet because of these particular changes some sites are doing.
Will this blackout, which is essentially a strike, be successful? Will the CEO give in or continue to double down? Only time will tell.
++ I'm absolutely tickled by the fact that House M.D. has made a fandom resurgence, at least on Tumblr anyway. I'm intrigued by what randomly selected older fandom gets resurrected by current fandom platforms. Obviously it's word-of-mouth, and I remember posts circulating about with people giving out of context examples of what shenanigans House (both the show and the character) would get up to, leading to a lot of confusion which at this point has led to people either rewatching or discovering the show for the first time. It's just wild to see, really. I watched House when it aired. Not throughout its entire run, but definitely during the earlier seasons. That was part of my appointment television watching schedule. So witnessing newcomers experience it for the first time, their live reactions, it's been equally amazing and amusing. I'm also seeing an uptick in gifsets and other fanworks for it, too. Which I'm sure already existed, but it's nice to see it coming across my dash.
++ So, Reddit is currently in a blackout, with thousands of communities having gone private since Monday in protest of the site's newest API policies. While the CEO seems to be dismissing the whole thing, we've all seen this happen before. If you piss off your userbase or don't listen to when they have legitimate complaints, never mind minimizing and trivializing these concerns and the people it is affecting, they will abandon your site and go elsewhere. Already places such as Tumblr and even DW are extending a welcoming hand to Reddit refugees during the blackout protest, which is great, but at the same time it's pretty depressing that this even has to happen. While the place could be a cesspool depending on where one was located (much like anywhere on the Internet, lbr), I'll admit to lurking at certain subreddits, sometimes for the laughs but also for information, advice, and different opinions people had on things. It's also one of the rare places online these days that operates like a forum with different moderators, which is quite concerning since there's been a lot of worry surrounding the future of the Internet because of these particular changes some sites are doing.
Will this blackout, which is essentially a strike, be successful? Will the CEO give in or continue to double down? Only time will tell.
++ I'm absolutely tickled by the fact that House M.D. has made a fandom resurgence, at least on Tumblr anyway. I'm intrigued by what randomly selected older fandom gets resurrected by current fandom platforms. Obviously it's word-of-mouth, and I remember posts circulating about with people giving out of context examples of what shenanigans House (both the show and the character) would get up to, leading to a lot of confusion which at this point has led to people either rewatching or discovering the show for the first time. It's just wild to see, really. I watched House when it aired. Not throughout its entire run, but definitely during the earlier seasons. That was part of my appointment television watching schedule. So witnessing newcomers experience it for the first time, their live reactions, it's been equally amazing and amusing. I'm also seeing an uptick in gifsets and other fanworks for it, too. Which I'm sure already existed, but it's nice to see it coming across my dash.
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Date: 2023-06-22 12:58 am (UTC)