When I started hearing about mods being replaced, I knew it was over. That platform simply has no future any more.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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Frankly I knew that it was over when I created this comm. Now we're just watching it 🔥burn and eating 🍿popcorn.
Let’s be realistic. Reddit will probably be fine for a whole while. Tons of users are still using the platform normally and are annoyed about the protests.
They’ll be more annoyed by the drop in quality.
Also true. Some people will remain, and they are going to see lots of ads, spam, reposts, and unhinged individuals who should have been banned. What about actual good content though? The people who make that stuff were among the first to leave. This transition will take a while to have an impact, so I don’t expect the stock value to drop much during the first year. After that though, it’s probably going to be yet another tumblr repeating history.
It would be shame if the users whose majority voted to make the sub nsfw continue posting nsfw stuff on the recently-swf subs.
Then the admins will immediately permaban then.
Source: the guy who posted Spez saying "I'm a greedy little pigboy" in r/adviceanimals after being forced open by the admins. Oopsie.
Reddit hates fun
The real fun comes after the mods leave. The new mods won't keep it up, and I'm betting that 4chan will look at it and say "you know what, we fucking hate lebbit, might as well raid it".
The only thing 4chan is good for.
Nowadays I browse mostly /vg/ and /a/, but I feel like 4chan is in certain aspects considerably better than Reddit. For example it's actually easier to have a decent conversation in 4chan than in Reddit.
Perhaps I'm biased though, I've been posting in that shithole for more than a decade, for comparison my oldest Reddit account would be 9yo if not banned.
Kind of weird to think about it - 4chan saw Reddit being born, and 4chan will see Reddit die.
It’s like seeing that one popular person you don’t like being hated by all lol.
Yes this is all a bit depressing that reddit seems to be reaching its natural conclusion; believe me I've been browsing since 2010 and have watched it change over the years. But , at least this time is not the absolute degenerates that migrated like the r/fatpeoplehate fiasco. Voat turned into a white nationalist cess pool really quickly. And on a positive note lemmy/kbin seem like they have some real potential.
I'm genuinely joyful that Reddit is dying. That place was a liability for the internet and society, on multiple ways.
I've watched Ruqqus forming. It started OK but then Voat closed down, and guess what: a place built around a naive/dichotomic conception of free speech, with absolutely no behavioural rules, was bound to be eventually infested by people who don't care about free speech.
The Lemmyverse is shaping differently because the ones being pissed by the changes are different. This time it isn't the ones poking fun at obese people, or the white nationalists, or the "gamers rise up REEEE" and "I'm sooo nice why does nobody like me? ;_;" basement dwellers. No, this time everyone with more than half a brain is getting the fuck out of the boat because we know that it is sinking.
Just my two cents.
I really like the Kbin/Lemmy version of the fediverse and I’m not tempted to go back to Reddit.
Wasted some time browsing it. Old mods are getting nuked across a hoist of subs, for example every mod on /r/celebrity was added one hour ago and old mods got banned.
If Reddit thought APIs were expensive, time to see how much it costs to use your employees as content moderators until IPO
time to see how much it costs to use your employees as content moderators until IPO
I remember seeing some maths on that - roughly 3.4 million dollars. The damage will be actually worse because a few of them won't say "I'm leaving", they'll just step out of their subs and do nothing until they pile up with crap.
So, they're paying someone to moderate the moderators? Just a thought. Maybe good for a chuckle.
Facebook spends 2bln a year on content moderation. Spez (the guy who started his career by selling out the work of his suicided friend) has been interviewed saying he talked to Musk about how to lower operation costs. Can't imaging 2bln/yr is cheaper than what he had before.
Odds are that it's some old employee (or even spez) doing the dirty work under a different account to avoid being "harassed" (i.e. called out on his lies).
Zero integrity.