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Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest
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#52Here's the website that the stream is viewing: https://reddark.untone.uk/
r/AmItheAsshole? Yes YTA.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reddit has about as much technical complexity in its core product as Twitter—both can be trivially cloned. Alternatives exist. It’s the network effects that made Reddit valuable: the people, communities, 3rd-party clients, platform integrations, etc. Most of these things are fairly portable, so I think Reddit execs are mainly gambling in users not wanting to bother with finding a new place to gather. I have to wonder…
> both can be trivially cloned. Alternatives exist Trivially? No. As can be seen by lack of alternatives of comparable quality.
I think it would be pretty easy to make a clone, but everyone who tries seems to end up getting nerdsniped making something federated instead.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember the Reddit side quoting some very low number on third-party moderation tool use… something like 8% of moderators using third party tools. Maybe that effect is overstated.
I would assume that a small percentage of mods are doing the vast majority of actual moderating. So the interesting statistic would be the percentage of mod actions performed via third-party tools. This is a bit similar to Stack Overflow claiming only 11% of mods are participating in the strike there. What they didn't say is that it includes almost all of the active Stack Overflow mods and some community-run anti-spa…
I tracked down the original statistic. CEO u/spez wrote:
> About 3% of mod actions come from third-party apps, and we’ve reached out to communities who moderate almost exclusively using these apps to ensure we address their needs.
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#57This sounds ridiculous even to me, but it’s a strange feeling to see the death of Reddit. It’s the only quasi-social network I’ve used for a decade, and there are many communities that I feel at home in. It’s almost like grief, or feeling untethered somehow.
Honestly I'm taking this as an excuse to quit Reddit completely. It eats around 60 to 90 minutes of my days, which realistically means I spend 10% of the time I'm awake on Reddit. I've already eliminated all the other socials and that has been very good for me, my mental health, my productivity, now it's time to move from Reddit too. Besides, the user experience on the website has been nothing but degrading for years…
> I've already eliminated all the other socials and that has been very good for me
You do understand that you are posting this to hacker news right?
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t think anyone is claiming it’s the death of Reddit. They are going dark for 2 days, then it will be business as usual.
Meh, I wouldn't be so quick to judge. I'm a mod of a several-million-subscriber subreddit (one that's likely highly popular among HN subscribers). When we asked our community if they wanted to join the protest, the answer was a very resounding "yes, but 2 days aren't going to cut it"... So we're still debating when/IF we're going to return after going dark. To add, all the mods are tired and don't have enough time to…
same here. r/sneerclub (18.5k) wouldn't have joined without overwhelming community support. Only question is whether to come back in two days. Also I think everyone on the sub knows very well it's a complete waste of time lol
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly I'm taking this as an excuse to quit Reddit completely. It eats around 60 to 90 minutes of my days, which realistically means I spend 10% of the time I'm awake on Reddit. I've already eliminated all the other socials and that has been very good for me, my mental health, my productivity, now it's time to move from Reddit too. Besides, the user experience on the website has been nothing but degrading for years…
> I've already eliminated all the other socials and that has been very good for me You do understand that you are posting this to hacker news right?
Hacker News is a news aggregator.
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#60Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but if Reddit doesn't backtrack what's the endgame here? I've seen multiple subs indicate they intend to fully shutdown if the API changes continue, but for the popular ones what's to stop Reddit from just appointing new mods and starting the sub back up?
If the mods get replaced, that's just another thing for everyone to complain about. Reddit relies on the community to do "community things" but if they stop doing those things then what do they have?
This is why Spez is such a tool imo. He tries to be a Zuckerberg or something. Get his IPO moment.
Not one moment does he reflect if this is the course to take. I understand why, the railroad of any tech site is to sell out, make those billions. Get some money.
Reddit’s DNA seems different enough, like you say, it is far more about community building. A model like wikipedia, to see it as an utility, would be far more in line with what it is.
Spez if I had to guess probably is just flipping tired of it all and wants to cash in asap.