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Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by bitcharmer »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #518
themagician wrote: post #401

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Most of the content is also modded by a small subset of mods—literally dozens. You've got maybe a hundred mods who are "power mods" that control the vast majority of large subreddits, and these are the ones "protesting". They don't own the subreddits. They have no rights to them, but they like to pretend that they do. Their moderation has, in many ways, become oppressive to the userbase. You don't hear about it becau…

Disagree with this for lots of reasons: 1. First, look at the incentive structure for being a mod of a large subreddit: it's a ton of work, with people constantly bitching at you, for no compensation. The vast majority of people with a life are not going to want to do this. So of course it appeals to people who can power trip off it, and I can't see those dynamics really changing. I do think that reddit should change…

> Disagree with this for lots of reasons

You might have visit a different reddit then. GP's comment is spot on. Oppressive moderation is rampart on reddit.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by epigramx »

lelanthran wrote: post #603
mattkevan wrote: post #363

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I have a theory, after working for one of the UK’s largest social networks, that no-one who runs a social network understands what made it work or why it continues to work. Therefore they are extremely reluctant to make changes in case they break it (e.g. old twitter), and because they don’t understand it, any large changes they do make are generally negative (new twitter, Reddit). Plus, in my experience , users will…

> It’ll be interesting to see whether this is Reddit’s Digg moment or it’s more like the Facebook newsfeed where everyone kicked up a fuss for a bit and then carried on as before. In order for this to be Reddit's "Digg moment", there needs to be a viable candidate to switch to . There isn't, as far as I can tell.

I don't think it's the viability itself. The many options also play a role: back at the digg exodus reddit was the only alternative to a large extend or at least the only alternative most people were aware of. But a new platform technology paradigm entirely might be better (decentralized).

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by pjc50 »

asveikau wrote: post #541
tomcam wrote: post #350

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How is Twitter rapidly decaying? I am a daily, but very light user so I may not be observing the trends as well as you.

I don't know if this is true, but I heard that recently, searching Twitter for "cats" led you to videos of cats being mutilated. The story continued that Elon had fired the entire team devoted to preventing such outcomes. https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-removes-autocomplete... Somehow hearing this story made me picture my daughter, 10, searching for cat videos.

ahem US privacy law makes it basically illegal for anyone under 13 to have an account on most services. https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/rules/childrens-onl...

Not that it's any better presenting such videos to 13 year olds. Or adults, for that matter.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by subsistence234 »

wpietri wrote: post #395
yanderekko wrote: post #326

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>Thanks so much for telling me what goes on in my head, bub. I mean, if you're going to Reddit to marvel at the sidebar rules or CSS stylings, then I guess you're going there for the mods qua mods. But I would assume that this represents a relatively rare user psychographic. Beyond this, my point is that it's unfair to give the mods credit for indirectly cultivating communities but refuse to extend this same consider…

If you're claiming that the main things Reddit mods do is a bit of rule text and some CSS, then I don't think you know enough about the topic to be worth further discussion.

in the best case mods remove spam and illegal content, and beyond leave the community alone to do its thing. unfortunately typical reddit mods feel compelled to do all kinds of other things, like they're on a mission from god.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by hcks »

Monotoko wrote: post #224
justinhj wrote: post #197

Forgive me if I'm making a simplistic reading of this, but it seems the CEO has said that whilst apps and bots are making some good money, Reddit is losing money. Assuming Reddit has already taken cost saving measures (with 2000 staff maybe not), then how can they continue as a business losing money? I wonder if a model would work where all monetization of api calls has to be done through Reddit and the API itself, a…

Apps were always willing to pay money for their usage, but not the insane pricing Reddit put in front of them ($12k for 50 million calls)

2.5$ per user per month doesn’t seem insane at all

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by collaborative »

dom96 wrote: post #523

I honestly didn't expect this from Reddit. It seems like investors are really tightening their grip and they are banning subreddits and long-time users who oppose these changes left and right. I built a free API emulating the Reddit API[1]. It was returning the same data as the existing publicly accessible .json endpoints on reddit.com (for example https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps.json ). They not only block…

Would be cool to have a "federated" group of people offering their endpoints to route things like this API. With enough of them, they wouldn't be able to block it. Actually now that that I think of it, we could already use the Tor network for this

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by melagonster »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #518
themagician wrote: post #401

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the content is also modded by a small subset of mods—literally dozens. You've got maybe a hundred mods who are "power mods" that control the vast majority of large subreddits, and these are the ones "protesting". They don't own the subreddits. They have no rights to them, but they like to pretend that they do. Their moderation has, in many ways, become oppressive to the userbase. You don't hear about it becau…

Disagree with this for lots of reasons: 1. First, look at the incentive structure for being a mod of a large subreddit: it's a ton of work, with people constantly bitching at you, for no compensation. The vast majority of people with a life are not going to want to do this. So of course it appeals to people who can power trip off it, and I can't see those dynamics really changing. I do think that reddit should change…

haha, look how users scoff the mod of r/AskReddit because they don't participate this

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by ImaCake »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #668
ImaCake wrote: post #623

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This stuff happens on the mental health subreddits too. Its bad enough to always second guess your own diagnosis but its worse when a mod decides you are excluded from one of the few places that will tentatively accept you.

I have a direct family member that was very ill, thought maybe they were transgender, tried that out, their mental state was not improving, got professional help from a doctor that listened instead of supporting every thought, got a lot better, and spent this year de-transitioning. I talked a little about their experience and, instantly banned from a handful of Reddit including a ban on my account that I appealed.

Yeah, mental health is so stigmatised that there is little room for the grey, like in your example. A few radicals end up controlling the discussion and most of us, who are too busy with life, are left confused and locked out by the hysteria. I am more sympathetic to those who support trans rights but go too far because the other side is literally calling for their extermination, but the lack of reasonable voices leaves eveyone poorer and disenfranchised.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by B1FF_PSUVM »

drexlspivey wrote: post #157
WXLCKNO wrote: post #145

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I found out yesterday that they have 2000 employees. I realize most of these people are not engineers but what in the hell have they been spending their time on. Terrible

They raised $250m 2 years ago and have tripled their workforce since. Now they're losing money of course but why do they need to IPO if they raised so much money recently?

> why do they need to IPO if they raised so much money

Venture capital funds are for a limited time - e.g. five years. At the end of the time, the fund is liquidated - the companies are either sold, or closed down.

They can sell to another round of VC funding, sell to a competitor (who wants to "acquihire" the team), or by IPO.

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