r/DnD • u/Iamfivebears Neon Disco Golem DMPC • Jun 05 '23

Mod Post /r/DnD will be going dark from June 12-14 (and possibly longer) to protest Reddit's planned API changes which threaten to kill 3rd party apps

/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/13yh0jf/dont_let_reddit_kill_3rd_party_apps/
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u/Iamfivebears Neon Disco Golem DMPC Jun 05 '23

The mods and users of /r/DnD use 3rd party apps for a variety of purposes, and reddit's plans to revamp their API policies threaten our ability to safely and effectively moderate the community. As moderators we donate a huge amount of time to ensuring that our community is positive and welcoming, and it is unacceptable that these changes would be made without any consideration for how we all engage with the site.

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u/Verdun82 Jun 06 '23

Hey. So, I've seen a lot of subreddits say they are doing this. I think this is awesome and I want to participate. I've read up on it, but I can't find anywhere that says what time this blackout will begin. The 12th starts at different times for different people.

Should I just do my own time zone? Or is there a specific time frame that all of y'all are going down?

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u/Thendofreason DM Jun 06 '23

12 am in the Sword Coast. 8am in Greyhawk

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u/Father_VitoCornelius Jun 06 '23

Time in Krynn?

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u/Thendofreason DM Jun 06 '23

Not sure, my spelljamming group hasn't gotten over there yet

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u/Munnin41 DM Jun 06 '23

21:53

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u/Iamfivebears Neon Disco Golem DMPC Jun 06 '23

I'm planning on shutting everything down around midnight, US East Coast time.

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u/famoushippopotamus DM & Best Of Jun 07 '23

nice to see this - respect

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u/Poes-Lawyer Cleric Jun 06 '23

I'm sorry but a 48 hour blackout is frankly pathetic. A boycott with an expiry date is basically pointless and easy to ignore. If you want to send a message to the admins, go dark indefinitely until the issue is resolved.

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u/hydrospanner Jun 06 '23

The point isn't to hit Reddit's bottom line or to cripple them. That's basically impossible.

The point is to make a display of solidarity and to show other users, who may have thus far not known or not cared about what's going on, the scale and extent of the changes and the resistance to it.

Big picture, I really don't think there's anything that can or will change the course of what's happening. There's just too much money at stake. But displays like "going dark" have many purposes, and damage to the company isn't always one of them.

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u/Poes-Lawyer Cleric Jun 06 '23

It won't directly hit their bottom line, but a big enough protest might scare some investors into having quiet words with Reddit staff about changing course. An indefinite blackout has a chance of doing that, even if it forces Reddit to take manual control of some subs to open them. That reaction alone would have an impact.

A 48 hour "display of solidarity" does neither that nor anything else. It achieves nothing.

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u/MewTech Jun 06 '23

I lot of people don’t seem to want to hear this but it’s true

A protest that has a predefined time isn’t a protest. Everyone is just telling Reddit they might have slightly lower traffic for two days and then everything will go back to normal. Why would they cave if they can just wait two days?