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They finally did it: Reddit made it impossible for blind Redditors to moderate their own sub

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Reddit @lemmy.world They finally did it: Reddit made it impossible for blind Redditors to moderate their own sub

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I hope reddit advertisers can see this. Why would you want to be associated with a site that discriminates against the blind?

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- they already lost 4.5bn because of this. Their valuation was cut down to 5.5bn from 10bn just the other day
  
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  And if I remember correctly that value cut was from before all this happened so it’s probably fixin to drop even more
  
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  https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/fidelity-deepens-valuation-cut-for-reddit-and-discord/
  
  Valued at 10 billion when fidelity bought an ownership stake in 2021.
  
  Currently they estimate Reddit is worth 5.6 billion
  
  Well done team, I bet the investor calls are going great!
  
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  That’s not them actually losing money, though. They’re a private company, not a public one. Their valuation is just what analysts think that they’re worth—it has nothing to do with how much money they have.
  
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  Only 5.5 billion more to go
  
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- There have been reports of the traffic to their advertising portal dropping by about 20% over the past month
  
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  I'm actually surprised that metric would change much, because the users viewing ads aren't impacted by changes to the API or third party apps. So that's literally just 20% of people who either stopped using the site in solidarity or couldn't get to their content because of the protests.
  
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Things are getting worse. Some subreddits like /r/breastfeeding, which were private from the start, are now being forced by Reddit to make their subreddits public. It's completely stupid. r/breastfeeding NEEDS to stay private to keep creeps and weirdos away.

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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is discriminating against people with disabilities!

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As someone with partial blindness, this is very pathetic of u/spez!

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u/Spez really didn't take the community seriously with the protests which has lead to this mass exodus. Crazy how they killed their platform so quickly with the writing on the wall in neon bright colors.

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Someone needs to start a "campaign" for naming and shaming companies who advertises on Reddit. "[This company] supports a company that actively discriminates against the disabled. #SayNoToReddit"

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- honestly yes. While I do think "ableism" is sometimes took to a bit of an extreme, in this case it's good... and serves the good purpose of making Reddit even less money, which is a good purpose in and of itself!
  
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I read the thread and I kind of cringed inside. I understand the moderators of r/blind want to keep the resources & information accessible but they actually tried to negotiate and sort it out with Reddit according to their words and Reddit just didn’t give a fuck about them. What I would’ve done is just nuke the sub and move to Lemmy yet they continue to eat shit from u/spez

I feel for them.

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- r/Blind is still a valuable resource for many people. No sense denying people access to it. r/Blind mods already created a Lemmy instance which they try to promote for their members. But learning new software can be challenging when you can't see, especially if the software isn't very accessible.
  
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  r/Blind is still a valuable resource for Reddit to exploit many people, especially blind people.
  
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- It's not like Lemmy has great mod tools.
  
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- I've not looked for myself, but does Lemmy or Kbin have good, accessible tooling? They're both much more modern so I would expect that it would be a priority, but they're also much less mature so I wouldn't be surprised if little in that way has been implemented yet.
  
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What's so stupid is that they don't even have to do that. alt text can be fucking handled by eslint and a pipeline checker. This is basic devops. Reddit has 1400 employees, wtf are they doing?

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