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Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dy74b/boycotting_advertisers_has_forced_changes_at

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It seems obvious at this point that Reddit and their CEO do not care about how we feel. They’ve doubled down, tripled down, and quadrupled down.

I think there’s only one recourse remaining: Tell Reddit’s advertisers we will not be buying their products or services as long as they’re providing financial support to Reddit.

I’ve compiled a list of the advertisers I see the most frequently, and included their contact information when I could find it. Sometimes it’s email addresses, sometimes it’s contact forms. Sometimes their customer service is intentionally obscured, and I wasn’t able to locate anything.

Here’s what I’d suggest — write a brief message along these lines:

Hello, I’ve noticed your company advertises regularly on Reddit. As you may be aware, Reddit has suddenly decided to change its business practices, charging exorbitant amounts to app developers, which will have wide-reaching consequences for many, including those with disabilities.

There was no attempt to even give developers an opportunity to switch to a paid system, or to implement your ads into their apps.

Furthermore, Reddit’s CEO has been extremely dishonest through this process, insulting both app developers and the users who provide 100 percent of the content and moderation to their site.

I will not be using your products or services as long as you continue to provide financial support to Reddit.

Please feel free to add to, or change the list of advertisers and contact information.

Now, I’m sure many will be pessimistic about this, but keep in mind that advertiser boycotts had massive impacts on Fox News in the past. They’re directly or indirectly led to changes with hosts like Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, and Tucker Carlson; there’s a reason the advertisers for some of their top shows tend to be companies like My Pillow.

THE LIST

Best Buy: https://www.bestbuy.com/contact-us?contactOption=other

Microsoft: https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-advertising-support

Max Rewards: [email protected]

Samsung: https://contactus.samsung.com/customer/contactus/formmail/mail/MailQuestionGeneralNew.jsp?PROD_ID=G303850&siteId=591

Apple: [email protected]

Amazon: [email protected]

Raid: https://contact.scjbrands.com/en-us

Nationwide: https://www.nationwide.com/personal/contact/online-form?language=en

US Army:

Cinemark: https://www.cinemark.com/about-cinemark/contact-us

Turo: https://turo.pissedconsumer.com/sendEmail.html?group=Customer%20Service

Toyota: https://support.toyota.com/s/questions-comments?language=en_US

Orbit: https://www.orbitgum.com/contact-help

Kellogg’s: https://www.kelloggs.com/en_US/contact-us.html

Brilliant Earth: https://www.brilliantearth.com/contact/

Logitech:

As me and many others, you might have encountered the problem, that tapping on a comment in your inbox doesn't get you to the comment and it's context. However, you can actually directly jump from the comments inbox to the correct comment + context in the post.

Check the image. First long press on the upvotes/time on the top right, to have the lower bar expanded. Then press on the chain link button below to directly open the post!

It was hard to find and know unless you already know it. This definitely needs UX improvement. Hence, this post here.

Would you like to see some plugins which integrate with local/self-hosted AI instead of sending it to ChatGPT? Or don't you care about privacy there as long as the results are good?

You might be interested in GPT4All (https://gpt4all.io/index.html), which can be easily downloaded as Desktops GUI. Simply download a model (like nous Hermes) for 7.5GB and run in even without a GPU right on your CPU l (albeit slightly slowish).

It's amazing what's already possible with local AI instead of relying on large scale expensive and corporate-dependent AIs such as ChatGPT

Vor einer Woche bin ich hier dazu gekommen. Das war zwei Tage vor dem Beginn der blackouts am 12ten Juni. Hatte feddit.de in r/de gelesen und dachte ich probiere es Mal aus. Was habe ich zwischendurch alles erlebt?

• Deutschland community war bei ca. 60 users/Monat
• Ich habe gefragt, ob wir nicht ein r/de Äquivalent kreieren wollen. Schwupps hatten wir ein c/dach.
• c/dach und c/Deutschland sind beide nun bei ~600 users / month.
• Ich bin vielen aktiven communities beigetreten. Von Technology und Science auf beehaw, über lustige communities auf sh.itjust.works bis hin zu AI communities auf lemmy.world und lemmy.ml.
• Nichen communities die vorher nicht existiert hatten und nun einiges an Leben haben: ObsidianMD, stable diffusion und co, trans memes sowie einige weitere nichen Hobbies
• Die Nutzerzahlen steigen und ich genieße einfach die super kompakte und schlichte Jerboa App. Ja, es ist nicht so polished wie einige andere Apps, aber die Abwesenheit von Schnickschnack und Werbung schätze ich sehr. Einfach sehr erfrischend.

Was ist euer Fazit seitdem ihr dabei seid?

Original: https://old.reddit.com/r/de/comments/14d4a5h/blackout_megafeedbackfaden_001/

While the second paragraph has been slightly debunked, the first paragraph is an interesting idea I've underappreciated/neglected until now.

What do you think? Perhaps this is easier/more-scaleable than having federated instances with decentralised and often complex governance?

Source: comment thread in r/interestingasfuck stating that it has not become a 'porn sub'. It only for nsfw because they also do malicious compliance.

Quelle: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

Bemerke, dass hier das Fediverse gemeint ist, nicht nur die Link aggregators Lemmy und Kbin. Mastodon ist aktuell immer noch das weit größere Fediverse Produkt, das verwendet wird.

Es geht darum, dass Meta (Facebook) angekündigt haben, einen neuen Services aufzumachen - quasi Twitter klon, aber mit Fediverse ActivityPub Kompatibilität.

I'm open source Bereich gibt es aber schon viele schlechte Erfahrungen, wo wenn solche Firmen zu große Instanzen besitzen, dass der offene Standard ausgehöhlt wird und misachtet wird (e.g. Internet Explorer als es mehr als 95% der browsers war und Chrome heute).

Interessant, dass sich bereits so viele Instanzen bereits im Vorfeld so positioniert haben.

Einfach in den Android Einstellungen für die App beim Punkt "Open by default". Diesen aktivieren. Die obigen Webseiten wurden bei mir automatisch vorgeschlagen, da ich solche links schon Mal geöffnet hatte.

Ganz nützlich. Wenn die App weiter entwickelt ist, dann wird dieser workaround hoffentlich nicht mehr notwendig sein.