<story><title>r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit&apos;s API changes</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/141qwy8/programmer_humor_will_be_shutting_down/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DiabloD3</author><text>HN might as well just run the headline that Reddit is shutting down permanently. All the major subs are either temporarily or permanently shutting down in protest.&lt;p&gt;Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet? Its the only way to ensure the community survives at this point; Reddit leadership has already proven they only wish to harm both shareholders and the community at large under the guise of &amp;quot;increasing shareholder value&amp;quot; and shove their fiduciary duty under the bus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&amp;gt; All the major subs are either temporarily or permanently shutting down in protest.&lt;p&gt;But I&amp;#x27;d just add there is a pretty major difference between &amp;quot;temporarily&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;permanently&amp;quot;. Major kudos to r&amp;#x2F;ProgrammerHumor and other subs that are doing it right - saying they will be shutting down indefinitely unless Reddit changes their stance.&lt;p&gt;Just saying you&amp;#x27;re only going to shut down for a couple days is essentially theater - Reddit can certainly wait out some popular subs being down for a few days. More generally, that&amp;#x27;s really the only way protests have a way of achieving their goals, by saying you&amp;#x27;ll engage in some behavior (or boycott) &lt;i&gt;until your demands are met&lt;/i&gt;, or at least met with some change. Anything that&amp;#x27;s time limited is pretty much doomed to fail. For example, I&amp;#x27;m not sure what the organizers of the recent Amazon &amp;quot;walkout&amp;quot; hoped to accomplish. That wasn&amp;#x27;t a walkout, it was lunch.</text></comment>
<story><title>r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit&apos;s API changes</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/141qwy8/programmer_humor_will_be_shutting_down/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DiabloD3</author><text>HN might as well just run the headline that Reddit is shutting down permanently. All the major subs are either temporarily or permanently shutting down in protest.&lt;p&gt;Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet? Its the only way to ensure the community survives at this point; Reddit leadership has already proven they only wish to harm both shareholders and the community at large under the guise of &amp;quot;increasing shareholder value&amp;quot; and shove their fiduciary duty under the bus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DeepPhilosopher</author><text>&amp;quot;Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet?&amp;quot;
Yes. It&amp;#x27;s called Lemmy. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;join-lemmy.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;join-lemmy.org&lt;/a&gt; Just found out about it today.</text></comment>