If there aren’t any mods then isn’t it time to show Reddit the community really did want to be an NSFW community?
It wouldn’t be the first time.
There really needs to be a way to advertise options like Lemmy to people that are still on the site. Many may not know what other options they have.
I would tell more people about it but I just don’t think it’s ready yet for the kind of volume Reddit has.
I think lemmy should consider adding rewards to fund the ecosystem.
Buy some ad space lol. I doubt they look that hard beyond just making sure it isn’t explicit.
Honestly you night be on to something
Time to end the protest and leave Reddit for Lemmy.
I’d say leaving reddit for Lemmy is the best protest.
It was at first, but I legitimately like Lemmy more, reminds me of my usenet days. I would have come here years ago if I’d known about it.
We are here so don’t tell us, go to reddit and guide redditors; I had been advocating that to a few subs I follow
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I met a lot asking what happened. Apparently, there is a large number not knowing the reddit CEO’s controversy
the fact that the narratives become mod vs user is maddening
This is what happens when people strike or protest in any meaningful way. It’s poor others that are also being affected by the protest. The institution can’t do anything with how unreasonable the protesters are.
You can replace reddit - mod - user with government - teacher - student, or corporation - bus driver - commuters, etc
Most people seem to be oblivious to the fact that a protest is meant to be disruptive.
I’m already deleting my posts and comments from Reddit. I’m keeping the account for some importantly saved stuff, but I have a feeling that I may need to save those offline too
Don’t delete your comments, edit them.
Why is this more damaging for Reddit than removing the actual content that they can continue to monetize with?
People go to reddit for relevant discussions on topics they’re interested in. If you make your comments irrelevant, you’re doing your part in making the site less attractive to other users.
Deletes don’t actually delete, it just sets a flag in the system to not show it so they can restore the comment (apparently this has already happened). Edits actually do overwrite the content of the post in the system and if you actually put readable but irrelevant content they also waste people’s time when browsing the site so it makes it less usable (rather than a deleted comment which people will just skip over). Also, if you edit it to be gibberish it makes the data much less attractive to those training AI. Make them have to work to turn it into something monetizeable.
I’ve seen some people using a script to edit their comments to state they’re leaving Reddit for Lemmy. It’s how I found out about this site, so I’d say you can use it to damage Reddit’s bottom line by advertising alternatives.
I’ve read that a deleted comment can be restored, but an edited comment deletes the original. So do both!
This tool does just that: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
Haven’t tried it yet, so proceed at your own pace.
Going from caging the golden goose to shooting it outright
Sounds about right for that dipshit ceo
This is the antagonistic corporate environment that these people and their emotional intelligence of a spoiled 8-year old have sown and nurtured (with a lot of neglect).
Honestly, good. I was the sole active mod of a few 500k-1m subs and I’ve abandoned reddit. I set them to private but ultimately decided to just say fuck it and I haven’t been back. I had a 13 or so year old account and was extremely active but now I’m done. I assume I’ve been demodded and the subs reopened but don’t care.
So let them continue to demod and ban the volunteers that give their time to help make this asshole rich. I hope every decent mod leaves that shit hole and they can fill the mod roles up with people that don’t care or will maliciously let the subs get overrun.
You’ll see a lot of the mods replacing the mods they remove being from certain questionable subs because spez has already said he wants to model it after what Elon did to Twitter.
Community leaders who have a backbone and really care?
Let’s replace them with people who don’t care but want power in the community.
This will not impact quality buy my IPO.
Begun the reddit war has.
Escalated to total war, the Reddit war has
Oh. It’s been going for quite some time now. I briefly checked some of my favorite subreddits today, they are all porn now, such as r/interestingasfuck, so they have that going for them.
It’s kind of a shame that /r/watchredditdie closed up shop just a year before reddit actually started to die.
Did they close up shop or did they get shut down?
If it is possible to delete a subreddit? At this point it would send a better message than to do what they are currently doing.
Usually are deletes not true deletes they are just set as deleted, often with a date or a boolean/bit in the database. I have never been to a company where true delete is the default. They are usually manually or scheduled. Just like non IT companies like banks store your info for many years. Even after you are not a customer because of the law.
So it is better to over write it. Often is that only backed up. Some have systems where nothing is truly overwritten because they need to see all changes like version handled web pages like Wikipedia but I would say most overwrite. It can be more complex than what is worth (to keep all the history).
most (if not all), big tech companies have backups behind backups of data, deleting a subreddit would just end up making them recover the data.
It’s not just that. You can’t delete a subreddit. Even when it was open source. It’s not in the code. It’s not physically possible for a sub to be deleted.
I wonder if there would be any value to go and start a bunch of new subs on reddit, with a very specific set of guidelines. Essentially an army of bots could populate these and it would serve as pure noise. A sort of DDOS if you will. I don’t think this could affect big subs, but it would drown out any smaller subs. Anyways, it’s just a thought.
Yeah this alone is what pulled me over here. Reddit is making some weird decisions and I can’t in good faith support it.
Here’s to new beginnings here!
On the flip side it will be interesting to see how long things can hold with so many communities becoming unmoderated.
If any of the mods who went down fighting had verified money apps (venmo, paypal, etc), I’d love to buy them a drink by sending them some cash.
I know I’m basically done with Reddit. Just waiting for July 1st to make it official. The biggest thing I was missing from Reddit was r/worldnews. Everything else was basically just a time waster. The fact Lemmy has worldnews is all I need to not have to go back.
Reddit’s “Moderator Code of Conduct” summarized:
Rule 1: Suck Steve Huffman’s dick.
Rule 2: Suck u/spez’s dick.
Rule 3: Suck it all the way to the balls.
Rule 4: Suck it like it’s the most delicious shit in the world.IPO imminent, let’s fire all the free volunteers and replace them with like wat? employees?
No, you don’t understand. Reddit was doing THEM a favor by letting them endure trolls and bots.
Millions of higher quality mods are just sitting there waiting for /u/spez to call them up for their chance to spend nights and weekends working for spez for free.
/s
Marketers.
Unfortunately there are enough power hungry users who would take the “job”
There aren’t. Subs were constantly understaffed of mods. While the power tripping mod is common enough to justify that the stereotype exists, most subs had to practically beg to people to get mods. Supermods were tolerated though they were more a nuisance than useful. Because often times they were the only ones open and willing to take the role.
There are power hungry mods, but to think that the population is all so power hungry that there are lines of people waiting to be mods is false. It’s a thankless stressful position. It fucks with people’s mental health and eats your time.
This was my experience on subs I spent time on. They would often have to recruit more mods, the people who care get burnt out.
And then turn the subs into a complete shitshow, remember the antiwork mod interview?
So the only real way to fight the Reddit admins is to leave the site… Too bad the apathetic make up the vast majority of users, so there won’t be a mass exodus like Digg.
Do we really want a bunch of apathetic consumers anyway?
I view this as an 80/20 problem. 80% of users don’t post content, 20% post AND care about the platform they post to.
The 20% are mostly here.
I say let them eat the advertisements and our memes a week or two after we post.
Ain’t nothing wrong with being a Reddit lurker and just enjoying the show.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with lurking.
My point is that lurkers don’t create content. The content is what makes reddit want an IPO, and why they’re fucking with API pricing.
Edit: forgot a letter
I was primarily a lurker on reddit, but cared very much about the community and have left because of it. I really should become more active here, to be a better part of the community.
Anyway, long story short, I’m sure there are lurkers that care and will be/have already migrated.
Can confirm, I’m a lurker who cares and has migrated here.
Well, I was more of a lurker the last few years because reddit was slowly sliding into Facebook territory and it annoyed me but I couldn’t stop scrolling anyway. Spez’s actions were the push I needed to delete my almost 10 year old account the first day of the protest and every day since just reinforces how good of a decision that was.
Now to remember how to interact instead of just scroll…
Right, once you start lurking it’s a hard habit to break isn’t it? I thought reddit was worse but still wanted something to scroll in lines or for niche content. Now I have Lemmy!
YES YOU DO
Are you serious? You want all the users you can get who will vote and/or comment. That’s what makes content successful, engagement, in one form or another. This isn’t your own private club, if we want this thing to become successful we want as many reddit refugees as we can get.
While having more users to engage with- even if it’s just for views and upvotes- is a good thing, I don’t think that the “apathetic users” should be the priority or are as important as the active content creators.
Those that don’t care about Reddit’s practices will continue to stick with them, rather than jump ship to a platform that doesn’t have as much content. For most of us already here, we don’t mind having less content, if it means being able to improve in other areas like thoughtful discussion and escaping the Reddit overhead. For those that don’t care about either, they’re not going to be convinced unless there’s the promise of a more enjoyable, casual experience.
There really is only two options then. Either make those people care, or create better content than Reddit to reel them in. The first has already been tried, since the blackout and the infographics spread as much awareness as possible throughout the Reddit community as a whole. For those that are still on Reddit, the only option left is the second one. There’s content there that they want that they’ll lose by switching to another platform, or they’re too accustomed to Reddit to want to make the switch.
This is where the 80/20 comes in, as YeetPics mentioned. The 20% provide the exact thing the 80% are after. If most of the 20% come here, then many in the 80% will follow. So by prioritizing bringing over the people who care about their platform and make content, you’ll by extension win over the more apathetic users anyways.
Everyone should be the priority, you can get both at the same time. Saying you don’t want [x] users is just some cliquey bs
My thinking is if you are looking for profitability through eyes on content (ads), then yes. However, I feel content creators are probably higher quality lurkers and I trust their upvotes and downvotes more.
You’re right, this isn’t a private club it’s an open community. I’m not so sure simply having more upvotes makes content successful. I don’t see the correlation between popularity and quality of content. If our content is good, we’ll attract the right community.
No, I don’t.
If I did I would abandon my morals and crawl back into reddit.
Quality>Quantity Always.
I never did think of that angle, you are probably correct.
The apathetic make up the userbase, the dedicated make up their content-generation.
Reddit is dead. You gotta move on.
Reddit was dead to me the second RiF announced they’d be shutting down. The RiF app IS reddit to me. I don’t go to it on desktop.
Apollo and Sync are both going to basically switch their apps over to RSS feeds they collect.
I imagine other devs will get similar ideas.
Really? I thought Christian was done. I haven’t seen anything about him making changes to Apollo’s architecture or opening the source code.
Interesting idea. Hopefully the people that use those apps will enjoy the new way they’re forced to show content. I think I’ll just go other places nowadays tho (until I need to google some niche, specific question of course lol)
This. I keep seeing Reddit talk shit on the “2% of power users” like it’s the 50% who doesn’t make an account or 20% who exclusively lurk are going to make and moderate the content with that 2% gone.
He’s working with Musk now, so really just expect another far right terrorism paradise because taking $5/mo to chase off the libs is easier than dealing with users asking them to make their shit work.
It’s very obvious Musk is taking shots at Insta/Facebook/WhatsApp and ESPECIALLY reddit
