So they just expelled one of the people that helped make Reddit what it is today? No loyalty at all is there.
The CEO of Reddit watched an interview with Elon Musk and decided that it was time to cut back on staff to save money? \s
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#72I don't even understand why they continue to work from free for people that do not even have the beginning of a care for them
I don't want to call it a cult, but there's a lot of stuff people will do, even to their objective personal cost, if it lets them benefit from a social perspective (be it real social value or perceived).
No one becomes a community manager because it pays well.
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#73This may be the place to talk about alternatives to reddit since discourse about that is banned there. So far I've heard only about Lemmy. Are there others sites redditors reading this could be redirected to?
apparently Lemmy and Kbin are the two big names popping up.
here's the same topic posted on Kbin for reference: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/59559/Removed-as-mod...
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Not to mention spam. There's lots of bots posting just avalanches of garbage upvoted by click farms. It's like these people are coming in driving cars and Reddit management is offering a sturdy pair of walking shoes to try to keep up with them.
Reddit found the one real solution for dealing with spam (human workers) for FREE and pissed it down the drain.
Maybe exactly because of this. Every social media is battling spam, and Reddit hasn't to such an extent. They don't know the value of what they have
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You could not be more wrong. The work is mostly invisible to end users.
Not really. Sort by new and take a look yourself. Nonsense posts get downvoted before a moderator has to do anything. People who sort by top or whatever never see it.
>Sort by new and take a look yourself.
ignoring the autoamted tools mods created, distribtued, and customized themselves to capture certain keywords or websites before it even hit /new
>People who sort by top or whatever never see it.
nope, just low effort memes, reposts, and unhinged rants,depending on the community. Or just porn.
If mods have rules against those, then there's your moderator work right there. Congrats.
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#76This may be the place to talk about alternatives to reddit since discourse about that is banned there. So far I've heard only about Lemmy. Are there others sites redditors reading this could be redirected to?
Let’s share the Lemmy Explorer page, to explore Lemmy communities: https://lemmyverse.net/communities
This site is very glitchy in Safari, instance images flicker, scroll too fast you get a blank screen. Might be an issue if they're hoping to get some of the less technical "phoneposter" Redditors on board with their cause.
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#77There are a bunch of natural human behaviours that because of the way society operates one has to suppress. You cannot hit people just because you are angry. You will have to move to pursue a better life and that means losing friends (even if you don't they will). One newer one is that if you spend time building someone else's product, that doesn't change the fact it is NOT yours. They can and will take it away the minute it suits them. So either don't do it or do it and know you will never be compensated, appreciated etc.
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You’re right that no mod owns a particular subreddit, but Reddit does not have a monopoly on communities either. There are a bunch of forums online which will gladly accept an influx of refugees from reddit, and the world will move on. If there isn’t one, one will form, somewhere. However, past behaviour also predicts future behaviour. The current actions of board of directors (and the silence of others) speaks volum…
The alternatives are crap right now and they might move on but unless the masses jump onto Lemmy or Mastodon, Reddit will continue to dominate. I tried those two other sites and they are just terrible.
Do you really want an alternative? Everybody is different, but for me, the return on my time spent there was way too low. Rarely when I closed the window did I feel good about how I spent the previous 20-30 minutes.
And I say that as someone with a very low bar for when time is well spent. Like John Lennon, I believe that time you enjoy wasting isn’t wasted. Reddit wasn’t clearing that bar for me. It felt like a slot machine. There was some compulsion to pull the handle again but ultimately I walked away less happy.
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>I am glad that they are getting removed for the good of the community. And you trust the replacements, that in your words are "mostly power tripping and/or want to control the conversation?". Unless you yourself are taking over and trust yourself to not grow to be what you hate? This sounds more like a revolving door in your eyes than cleaning out the trash. why bother if you haven't addressed the core problem?
Just the fact that the new mods don't think they have the right to keep the entire community hostage makes them better than the replaced ones, yes. Although it would be better not to have any mods at all.
It is incredibly naive and foolish to suggest that no mods is a good idea. That's how you get 4chan,or worse, 8chan, and if places like that are your goal, then you have no business making suggestions for anything.
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#80It's interesting seeing this situation play out across different subreddits. There seems to be 2 kinds of subreddits - the "category" kind (simple, descriptive name) and the "community" kind (have a defined purpose, could exist under a whole range of names) The moderators of all of them see themselves as somehow owning the community, but I think that's less clear to the users. To most users, r/Celebrities is a catego…
reddit has some of the worst mods I’ve ever seen in any capacity. And they’re frequently in control of massive subreddits. I remember when hate speech was just discovered as a reason to ban people, and mods of major subreddits would find ways to use that either out of protest or complete incompetence to ban people. For example, banning users for disagreeing with a controversial decision because “I hate your take, thu…
The r/Australia mods are awful