Well, their ToS says these (ToS + Privacy Policy) are a legally-binding agreement. So technically, you could sue them for not deleting your posts

I’m not from EU, nor California, nor Canada. So if anyone wants to contribute with further information about GDPR/CCPA/Other data protection laws, it’ll be greatly appreciated.

Bro got jealous of China and “The Great Wall of Text”

Well, they could just say: “We made a script to track every mod who closed their sub, revogate its mod permissions and notify all other mods in the sub with an automatic message”, which basically frees them from any charges regarding community content.

They could, however, be sued for not actively removing illegal content, such as pirated things and MAP related things (e.g. r/jailbait)

Isn’t Reddit GDPR copliant? Because if they are, they can’t simply undelete things without users’ permission

The Fediverse is almost unpoisonable by these people, since we can just open another instance and block interactions with those we don’t like.

LMAO, what? Protests ain’t fun at all and aren’t meant to be. Here in my country, it’s pretty common to see public school teachers doing protests and strikes demanding better salaries, then get shot by cops using rubber bullets or get some pepper spray in the face. I don’t think they protest because getting shot is “funny”, they do because they want a real change for everyone.

Also, the protesters ARE (or at the very least should be) aware of the risks and downsides. If the people you work with decided to make a strike because of something they don’t like or agree with in your workplace, they are at least aware they may be replaced by scabs or get fired. Likewise, the mods and users who embraced the protest were aware the community content would be inaccessible and they’d have to find other things to do aside doomscrolling all day.

So no excuses here, people got into this because they really want some changes, and those who didn’t either: are Reddit bootlickers; aren’t aware of the real impact the API changes are going to make or; aren’t able to reach much people without staying on Reddit (here I talk specifically about FMHY and Piracy communities)

I’m one of those who found FMHY and piracy related things through Reddit, and I understand you, like a lot of other communities there. But if everyone thinks the same, then Reddit will have almost every big community up and running, thus making this protest pointless.

I like your idea of evangelizing people on Reddit, but I’m kinda concerned with how we’d keep this infrastructure up and running in the long term. I don’t think everyone would like to donate some bucks to help keep their home instance running, and the massive migration has already made some instances to upgrade their servers, raising their cost.

I’d love to see the Fediverse expand as a whole, but it must be a sustainable growth if we want to get somewhere.

I don’t know about Digg, but the blackout kinda crashed their website/app. I think if we keep the protests going, they’ll either have to roll back the changes, or open the subreddits by force and deal with low quality moderation.

Also, I think they did some irreparable damage to their image by not listening to their users, and this hopefully will kill their platform on the long term.

Agreed, I think it’s a good time to be here: Mastodon has been gaining a lot of ground these days, thanks to Elon; other apps like Peertube, Pixelfed, Lemmy and Kbin are growing as well. Now I actually enjoy the experience of the Fediverse, and I hope it keeps growing and maybe dethrone current mainstream media.

Reddit was moaning about the cost of maintaining a public API that is being heavily farmed by AI learning

TL;DR: Spez is a scumbag and don’t care if people use Reddit content to train AI models, he wants to kill 3rd party apps.

I don’t think they’re actually worried about people using their data to train AI models, since Sam Altman (OpenAI’s CEO) is a Reddit investor and was a former chairman until 2022. I mean, either spez knew Sam was using it (my theory is that they’re “friends” and spez knew it all along) OR spez didn’t see Reddit content as valuable until now. Either way, Reddit started to limit access from mobile browsers, forcing users to use their official app. I don’t know, but it seems to me spez is trying to kill 3rd party apps instead of just creating a better protection against scraping.

Just guessing, but maybe this has something to do with instances overload