maddie (:goodfortrout:) :QueerCat: :verifiedtrans: (@[email protected])
snowdin.town
so, the reddit API protest has taken a different direction, now people are uploading gigabtyes of videos to reddit which are just noise. i cannot stress this enough, do NOT run the command ffmpeg -...

i cannot stress this enough, do NOT run the command ffmpeg -filter_complex “nullsrc=s=1920x1080,geq=random(1)*255:128:128[vout]” -map “[vout]” -t 46 -c:v libx264 out.mp4 in order to generate one of these large video files then upload them en masse in order to slow down their servers,

  • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlM
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    2 years ago

    I’m OK with slightly immoral actions against justified targets; my main concern is effectiveness. This will at most slow down Reddit’s servers, but it’ll be practically invisible to users.

    Instead a better approach might be to generate text and pictures that discourage other users from going to Reddit. Goatse, copypasta, gibberish, flyers telling people what’s going on, so goes on. In this sense I think that the subs posting John Oliver pictures, plus r/latestagecapitalism with orcas, got the right idea. It’s also legally safer.

    we have a perfectly usable and in many ways superior alternative, we’re on the alternative right now

    One thing doesn’t exclude the other, right?