I’m all for watching Reddit reap what it sowed. They absolutely should be considered damaged goods at this point. But the ones that are really going to suffer are the mods that moderate critical subs such as r/suicide r/stopdrinking and r/auntienetwork. Spez didn’t even give one brain cell to think about the consequences of subs that provide valuable support to struggle people.
Really grinds my gears on that part alone.
Well said. It’s easy to say “let that shithole burn” for me, as a person who just used it for entertainment and mild education. But there are integral support communities that I hate seeing suffer.
r/stopdrinking is the sub that really gave me the motivation to stop drinking. I went from binge drinking once or twice a week to nearly completely cutting out alcohol of my life.
that’s awesome, keep it up =)
thanks I’m trying everyday.
Maybe lemmy users should do their part in reaching out to them and offering the fediverse as an alternative?
Ribbit
I’ve been looking for the community here too. It’s nice to see one of my people here :)
Ribbit
You two should start a new community
Ribbit
Hey mods I have a message for you: you don’t have to do unpaid labor just so a ceo can get rich.
I decided to step down. Haven’t looked back since
we need to send this to every community
It’s dying. An event that was literally unthingkable a few months ago and was probably unachievable a few weeks ago.
Little by little, reddit is crumbling. The number of userbase doesn’t matter now. If the spam bots overtake reddit, then it’s over for them.
Yeah, people going “hurr durr the protests don’t matter” aren’t seeing the bigger picture. True, the protests were ineffective at best in changing Spez’s mind, but the thing they’re protesting will end up destroying Reddit because crippling mod tools is going to cause spam to explode on the platform.
I believe 90% of those “hurr durrs” were bots by Spez trying to psyops the protests and failing like the dipship that he is.
Yeah, I had some suspicions on a few subreddits where suddenly the Spez Defense Force was out en masse to shit on normal users & moderators alike. SubredditDrama as a specific example felt super off compared to the vibe there I was used to as a long time lurker, like you’re telling me the most upvoted comments on like every post are suddenly all people whining about the protests and how entitled moderators are, not users enjoying the popcorn and chaos? Hmmmm.
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Elon, that you?
Reddit drama has been like when city sanitation worker strike. For 2-4 weeks, no one cares. Then everything start to smell like shit…
Even if they were to revert every single poor decision in the last 6 months right now, the damage is done.
They showed their true colours, and everyone is done with the platform.
Long live Lemmy.
We’re done with the platform but there are a lot of real people still using it. I do think the quality is going to tank and they’ll continue bleeding users though.
Yeah, its the tech-aware who have dumped Reddit. Unfortunately part of the magic was that it had grown to the point that if you went looking you could end up talking to anybody from a diesel engine mechanic to a paragliding instructor, not just a bunch of tech nerds. I think this’ll be the sticking point, lemmy/kbin is still 95%+ tech nerds.
I think this wave just gave us enough of a userbase to start establishing the infrastructure for general communities here, not even really specialized ones yet. But those will provide escape areas whenever the next wave occurs.
Lemmy needs to hit critical mass and the talented devs making Reddit better as a hobby will come here and make it even better. Reddit’s dev team got lazy and complacent because outside devs were doing their job for them better and for free which is pretty ridiculous. If you put a monetary value on the bot defence teams work it would in the millions. Other companies have a team of full time employees fighting spam, Reddit was getting it for free.
I had no idea this was a case. For free!?
It’s almost like it would be easier to just walk away, I feel for the people that are forced to stay and continue to mod.
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That’s what I don’t get either, at this point I don’t see how anyone would willingly spend their time modding on reddit, so there they must be doing it against their will!
I guess they just don’t want their community to die / be destroyed.
So migrate the sub to Lemmy/Kbin. Nothing stopping mods from promoting links, I suppose.
Nobody is forced to mod for free on Reddit
Exactly, it was kind of a facetious comment, but it is kind of sad there’s mods that feel a sense of obligation to run a corporate social media site and that the reddit leadership is banking on the social currency of being a mod keeping any sort of value.
Perhaps op was thinking of mods for subs like r/suicide
I feel that mods in those types of subs genuinely care about the community and would probably feel that if they walked away, they’ll lose the chance to help someone in need.
Further down the rabbit hole. Seems like they’re doing everything they can to get to the bottom as fast as possible.
Almost like it’s being done on purpose. Like spez woke up last week and said, fuck it, I’m tanking Reddit.
My guesstimate is that Reddit — with BotDefense up and running — was at least 20% bots posting articles and then bots having conversations about those bot-posted articles. Without BotDefense? Yikes.
Man the bots aren’t even good at hiding they are bots anymore.
That was just spammed in a news article over and over for hours.
