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Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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

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Post by redog »

Corrado wrote: post #543

So, is it time for Yahoo! 2.0 yet? Years ago I read a blog post talking about the next big ideas (Joel Spolsky?) and the one that stood out was a new search engine. At the time I thought it was a crazy idea; who|what would|could replace Google?! Now, I'm not so sure the idea was crazy at all. The Reddit discussions over the past few days have got me thinking about how a lot of folks interact with it, and not just as…

> Maybe we can get back to that by building a search engine out of Reddit style discussions, kinda like micro "search engines".

dude what rock have you been under? you just described chatGPT

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Post by prawn »

spazx wrote: post #109

Smelled this one coming miles away. Next, they'll hand over fan-built communities to the entities that own the IPs they're dedicated to. Eg. r/starwars to Disney, r/startrek to Viacom/Paramount, etc. Then, old.reddit.com will stop working spontaneously, just like how they toyed with killing mobile browser access to force users to download the app, which they probably will eventually. That's going to be the final push…

I assume they can’t have employees as mods without risking legal responsibility (S230, etc)?

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

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Post by growingentropy »

HlessClaudesman wrote: post #240
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.

Yeah I did that too when Twitter died, shout-out to the fantastic NetNewsWire on mac. But here's the thing, reading within your own walled garden doesn't expose you to radically new ideas as much. The rss only approach lacks the discovery aspect of social media. Now that Reddit is dying too I'm pretty much down to Mastodon and HN for finding interesting novel stuff.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

braindead_in wrote: post #415
TeMPOraL wrote: post #398

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> There are Reddit users waiting in the wings, wringing their hands ready to jump at the 'oppurtunity' to moderate established subreddits and will happily devote their time to custodial duties. (...) There are people who thrive on having power over others even though in this case, subreddit moderation, it is perceived power. Yes. Those are the very people who should be never ever allowed to become mods, or to be anyw…

> Those are the very people who should be never ever allowed to become mods, or to be anywhere near any position of power Okay. How about AI as the new mod then?

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

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Post by hagbarth »

pmoriarty wrote: post #479
Llamamoe wrote: post #163

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All they had to do was make showing ads part of the ToS for developing third party apps, to require login for API access, and make only mass scraping require $$$.

This wouldn't solve the problem of their API being used to scrape Reddit to train LLMs.

Then have different terms for different purposes. Charge LLM trainers and request that 3rd party apps show ads.

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Post by themoonisachees »

himinlomax wrote: post #425
andrewstuart2 wrote: post #169

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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.

The filter has been able to be deactivated and changed by instance owners for at least a year.

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Post by jug »

luckystarr wrote: post #464
spazx wrote: post #109

Smelled this one coming miles away. Next, they'll hand over fan-built communities to the entities that own the IPs they're dedicated to. Eg. r/starwars to Disney, r/startrek to Viacom/Paramount, etc. Then, old.reddit.com will stop working spontaneously, just like how they toyed with killing mobile browser access to force users to download the app, which they probably will eventually. That's going to be the final push…

As far as I've heard, r/startrek already started their own instance at https://startrek.website and indicated they will close their sub for good. This may be the first major sub to be handed over. Paramount may then even sue startrek.website for IP infringement, etc. I'm re-stocking my strategic popcorn reserves.

Yep, instantly followed them from lemmy.world. :)

Someone joked that it's natural for Star Trek to join the Federation early.

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Post by YawningAngel »

cornholio wrote: post #561
b112 wrote: post #418

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This entire thing started, as far as I recall, because the above was NOT being done. You're reading misinformation / misdirection.

And once it had gained momentum, it exploded into a power struggle with the owners of the site. It's now a pure tribal war: the mod tribe will not accept any compromise short of full rollback of the proposed changes, and Reddit cannot do that because - just like all major platforms - it cannot support adblocking alternate clients that are profitable while free riding on their infrastructure. It's also very predictabl…

The price reddit is charging for API access seems much higher than the value to Reddit of the ads that are being blocked by the client using that API.

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Post by throwaway2037 »

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…

This is not true in developing countries. From my experience, the poorer a country, the more likely you are to see extensive, serious use of Facebook. And the revenue growth opportunity is huge for FB in these places. It is already flat or slightly negative in highly advanced countries.

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Post by themoonisachees »

pjerem wrote: post #507
luckystarr wrote: post #464

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As far as I've heard, r/startrek already started their own instance at https://startrek.website and indicated they will close their sub for good. This may be the first major sub to be handed over. Paramount may then even sue startrek.website for IP infringement, etc. I'm re-stocking my strategic popcorn reserves.

That they did that and that their community followed is super cool ! It shows that the decentralized web isn’t dead and is a viable solution.

Well, startrek fans already have the built-in knowledge of how federation works so I guess that might have been easier than other communities.
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