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Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by soraminazuki »

rjvir wrote: post #146
mlyle wrote: post #60

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The richest part here is where spez refers to moderators as a "landed gentry": https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-protest-blacko... “And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.” What does that make spez relative to the constituents in his community?

Spez is CEO because the board and investors deem him to be the best person for the job. Of course, he founded Reddit, so he has a strong case on merit for why he is the #1 person on the planet to run the company. The process for selecting moderators is way less meritocratic or democratic than this. They merely got there first, finders keepers. The analogy for landed gentry is accurate.

If the best person for a job is a habitual liar who abuses and defames people that helped grow the company, maybe that job shouldn't exist. And somehow, I don't think the CEO's childish attitude is what even the investors hoped for.

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Post by throwaway290 »

photonerd wrote: post #244
olalonde wrote: post #217

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Facebook and Twitter are not bot ridden ghost towns... but anyways, I'll make the opposite prediction: Reddit is going to turn out just fine and this episode will quickly become a memory from the past.

Twitter absolutely is. If it’s not bots, article spam, or ads, it’s the crazy MAGA-crowd jerking themselves off over their fake-outrage of the moment. It’s an absolute ghost town in terms of engaging, original, content. Their user numbers are obviously buoyed by absolute junk accounts and it’s been obviously so since Musk fired most of the company. FB is a boomer & genX meme-pocalypse that’s absolutely slathered with…

Twitter is bearable just 1) never use "for you" tab, only "following" 2) don't follow trolls 3) mute reply trolls and llm autoreply accounts 4) maintain a biiiig blocklist of words.

FB: don't know but I surely see almost no ads. I use mbasic.

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Post by growingentropy »

spazx wrote: post #196
growingentropy wrote: post #190

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It's going to sound dumb, but honestly? I filled an rss reader up with some of the best sources I could think of, and am actually really enjoying just quietly taking the world in again, instead of trying to come up with my latest snarky Reddit-friendly quip.

I've actually been wanting to do this, but I don't personally know a lot of good sources that still use RSS. Would love to see your feed list.

News: Chicago Tribune (a certain browser with a certain addition bypasses the subscription shakedown), New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, Reuters, the BBC.

Tech: Hacker News, Tech Crunch, The Verge.

Music: Pitchfork.

MMA: MMA Fighting, Bloody Elbow.

Plants: Epic Gardening and Indoor Gardening, with plans to add some carnivorous plant forums.

Still looking for more stuff. It honestly feels strangely better absorbing without commenting.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by b112 »

baq wrote: post #295
safety1st wrote: post #212

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They are done, 100%, this is the turning point and it's all downhill from here. They depend fundamentally on volunteer labor and every decision they've made since announcing the API change has alienated that labor. The morale of every mod I know is in the tank. The solution for this was incredibly simple. Reddit you want to charge for the API? Go right ahead, we all want you to make money. But when the volunteer labo…

Some people here laughed at me when I said their financial projections are garbage, obviously have false assumptions given they’re actually implementing the plan. It’s a sad thing to watch.

Some people here laughed at me when I said their financial projections are garbage

You fool! Their projections are only garbage, because they haven't IPO'd yet! Sure, they're not profitable now, but once they IPO, they'll have the money to, uh... I mean, to become profitable! That's it!

Stop confusing the issue!

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Post by himinlomax »

andrewstuart2 wrote: post #169
cryptoegorophy wrote: post #152

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Any good alternative? I like hacker news for now that it still got some comments worth reading and interesting articles

Lemmy is still significantly lower user count but honestly I prefer the community at the moment. Everything feels small and jovial. At least for the 12 comments I've posted thus far. I'm running my own, which makes it easy to federate out to pretty much anything and worry less about overload as I'm not really pushing for users. Thus far, it's definitely felt like a very viable replacement for reddit for the communiti…

Their hardcoded scunthorphe filter blocks very common word in non English languages, such as the French words for late, delay, and firewood. The lead dev insists, rudely and vehemently, that those who have a problem with it are fascists.

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Post by growingentropy »

basch wrote: post #193
growingentropy wrote: post #190

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It's going to sound dumb, but honestly? I filled an rss reader up with some of the best sources I could think of, and am actually really enjoying just quietly taking the world in again, instead of trying to come up with my latest snarky Reddit-friendly quip.

Do you have your best source list?

News: Chicago Tribune (a certain browser with a certain addition bypasses the subscription shakedown), New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, Reuters, the BBC.

Tech: Hacker News, Tech Crunch, The Verge.

Music: Pitchfork.

MMA: MMA Fighting, Bloody Elbow.

Plants: Epic Gardening and Indoor Gardening, with plans to add some carnivorous plant forums.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by growingentropy »

uoaei wrote: post #255
growingentropy wrote: post #190

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It's going to sound dumb, but honestly? I filled an rss reader up with some of the best sources I could think of, and am actually really enjoying just quietly taking the world in again, instead of trying to come up with my latest snarky Reddit-friendly quip.

It's difficult to curate that list for me, I want high-quality blogs as well as news. But having ~100 feeds, ~20 of which being "news" each with ~20 posts per day, meant at least 2 hours per day catching up. I quit cold turkey last autumn but want to reinstate it, except with only the folks that post once per day or less.

What I find helps is going through each category as the mood hits me. If I looked at my one main feed, I would almost be overwhelmed.

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Post by radar1310 »

This reminds of a a bunch of 12 year olds in a school yard taking their ball and going home. The maturity level of this CEO is shocking. And aome of the moderators can’t be much older than 12 in the way they have acted. So unprofessional and so unnecessary.

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Post by snovv_crash »

pndy wrote: post #396
rdevsrex wrote: post #373

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Exactly. I canceled my monthly subscription and logged out. I mostly loved Reddit for long for pieces anyway, so I'm going to pay more attention to Substack and see how that emerges.

I'm curious, why you even get subscription in the first place?

No ads the 'proper' way, I guess?

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Post by urbandw311er »

“We’re doing this out of a duty to protect the millions who rely on these subreddits”

No you’re not! You’re so obviously not. Just say it’s to protect your business.

The profit-driven behaviour I can stomach (it is their company after all) it’s the bullshit spin that upsets me.

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