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ATTENTION: If you're actively employed by and working at Reddit... (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by Snapz@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Hey there, friend :)

I just wanted to mention to you directly that you are a human being and you have choices here.

First acknowledging that you do need to stay employed of course and I don't blame you, as the worker, for helping Reddit during this moment. But there are these few moments each day at your work where you can make small, deliberate decisions on behalf of your fellow human beings over hollow corporate furtherance.

Just do a bit less each day. Forget to send an email here and there. Copy the wrong "Debbie" or "Todd" in that email that you do send - honest mistake. Forget to ban that mod you are asked to ban, or forget one in the group. If you're feeling bold, get off of your work machine and reach out to those mods on a dummy account with a heads up.

Again, not you're fault as an individual either inn a broken system, but you probably have small opportunities every day to help the world and hurt Reddit a bit. Embrace those opportunities.

We believe in you.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 1 year ago

I keep saying I think it's going to go the facebook route. I don't think we're going to see them change on this, I think we're going to see a slow gradual death of a social media space. No one can pinpoint when Facebook became less cool, but everyone agrees it's not cool like it was in the early 2010s/late 2000s. People will follow the content, when content stops being as good on Reddit people will go elsewhere.

All we need to do is keep the communities going and have fun content.