According to wikipedia the subreddit blackout started on June 12, do you think that date qualify to marked it ?

  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
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    20 days ago

    I think it started in earnest the day of his AMA, whenever that was.

    It actually started long before that. Fuck U Spez was already a meme when all of the API/third-party app stuff took off, but at that point, it was still mostly a holdover from previous examples of Spez being a shithead. The thing that really gave it (new) life was that AMA.

    • Favoring9181@lemmy.worldOP
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      20 days ago

      Ah yes the AMA where he made everything even worse for himself, especially by trying to slander the Apollo’s dev. That seems to be on 09 June 2023.

  • QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    All the mods achieved was further alienation from their communities who didn’t even that Apollo existed.

    Most other 3rd party applications are still running under a paid subscription to cover their API usage bill.

    The only reason I am here is because of the higher transparcey if mods start power tripping, at least we can see it in the mod log.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    19 days ago

    Personally there were 3 key events

    • May 31, 2023 is when the details of the API change surfaced and the snowball of opinion started rolling down hill.
    • June 12: the blackout started and I moved to the Threadiverse.
    • June 28? - July 1, Reddit started to force subs back online by any means necessary, which is what made me realize I wouldn’t be going back.