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Another day and another nail in another awesome online community that has terrible leadership. Where will the communities move to? What new areas of the Internet will be created?
https://kbin.social is a great alternative from what I can see. https://kbin.social/m/apple is already thriving, as is https://kbin.social/m/programming
There were 2 posts in the last 24 hours. It's not thriving by any measure.
What's the end game here for reddit? There's no way this would end well.
This is like a farmer's livestock protesting. At best when the hogs are marching around with their picket signs it's irritating. Most of the time it's just comical. By the end of the week, they'll still be pork chops.
The last 10 years of reddit history has been the mods teaching everyone that they're not special and no one will miss them. Now that the admins have turned around and say that the same rule still applies to the mods and even "everyone as a whole"... people are shaking they're heads and whining "no, you're wrong, we are important".
But the reddit IPO will go through, spez will be a billionaire, and a bunch of strangers will be moderating that subreddit you thought was so awesome. Which will be full of cat pictures and facebook memes, and the comments will be five thousand deep nested reply chains of bad pop culture jokes.
Starting to think Reddit leadership is genuinely not all that sharp
Another day and another nail in another awesome online community that has terrible leadership. Where will the communities move to? What new areas of the Internet will be created?
What's the end game here for reddit? There's no way this would end well.
What do you mean? How can this end poorly? Most people browsing Reddit are addicted with no viable substitutes. Breaking their addiction through continued blackouts would end badly. Replacing some mods no user cares about will hardly have an impact. Lets be realistic.
If it's true that reddit isn't profitable, that itself could spell the end of the site. That's a bad sign for a site as old as reddit.
Another day and another nail in another awesome online community that has terrible leadership. Where will the communities move to? What new areas of the Internet will be created?
What's the end game here for reddit? There's no way this would end well.
Sorry... but this was handled very poorly by reddit and its CEO. Should have just disabled the 'go private' option. A subreddit, is not 'owned' or property of a moderator. Eg, https://www.reddit.com/r/Brooklyn/ , should not be own by one person that decides what to do. The questions and answers are made by common people that want to see their content that they posted into the subreddit. They are not property of some…