Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

Post by jquery » Sat, Jun 17, 2023, 1:40 AM UTC

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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…

There have always been both liberals and conservatives on twitter, and they have always had fun socking it out. The only difference today is that there's no more orchestrated censorship of conservatives going on, since Musk bounced most of the crybullies out of the company, and put an end to the FBI payments for banning things the government doesn't like. The same cannot be said for Facebook.

Post by cubefox » Sat, Jun 17, 2023, 2:46 AM UTC

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A lot of people on the left basically can't imagine a social media platform being good unless it heavily restricts right-wing speech/expression.

Gonna need an example here. Otherwise this looks like low effort right wing fauxrage.

Post by JohnTHaller » Sat, Jun 17, 2023, 3:09 AM UTC

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This is so sad honestly. Like wtf is going on, no apology, no good will, doubling down on the complete moral suicide of Reddit. To push an app no-one ever liked, you know that, but whatever. No-one likes “new” Reddit either, you know that, but whatever. Who’s even gonna use the site after this? Social media zombie sheeple is all that's going to be left. Congrats on your dumb little site, from the front-page of the In…

Im not a fan of how reddit is handling the situation, but: > To push an app no-one ever liked, you know that, but whatever. No-one likes “new” Reddit either, you know that, but whatever. Who’s even gonna use the site after this? Is just not true at all unless you have actual stats to back that up. A ton of people disagree with that take. The site has grown a massive amount since the new design was released in 2018. S…

Post by bottlepalm » Sat, Jun 17, 2023, 3:11 AM UTC

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Unless there's an realistic alternative to Reddit that users are actually moving to - then no it's not.

There are loads of reddit alternatives. The only thing reddit has going for it is network effect.

Post by bottlepalm » Sat, Jun 17, 2023, 3:13 AM UTC

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This is more like the death of Twitter - highly exaggerated and no alternatives. Nothing changes.

Lemmy is relatively thriving. I doubt this will be the "Great migration", but if Lemmy was able to hold enough users, the next time Reddit makes a big mistake, Lemmy will be a viable alternative by then.