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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.
What's with the mostly nsfw content? Was that part of the r/celebrities protest?
Yes together with manipulating images to include the face of John Oliver
[1] Which I fully support, mind.
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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>They were expressing their loyalties by saying they want to keep working for free for the company … as long as their tools aren’t deliberately broken by the company Reddit is under no obligation to find these terms acceptable. Moderators absolutely can moderate without the API.
This statement is supported by you being a long-standing moderator of which subreddit again?
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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…
(Slot machine mechanics are, unfortunately, present to a degree in every discussion board, group chat and mailing list - other people posting potentially interesting content == variable-schedule reward, which is the way to get addicted fast.)
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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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That's unnecessarily aggressive. I agree with the poster's point, which is that no (or very minimal) moderation gives you results that are very undesirable for most communities.
This 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?
My mind was blown the first time I watch this this interoperability happen. If twitter, reddit and hackernews support activitypub, it would goes like this: if someone post a tweet on twitter that mention a subreddit in the tweet, then that tweet is automatically visible in the mentioned subreddit as a post. The people on that subreddit can comment on the post, and it'll show up in the original author's tweet as reply to the tweet. Then in the middle of it, hackernews user somehow join the discussion because someone on the hackernews subscribe to the subreddit.
This 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?
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> So you have no idea of what you're talking about, which means you have no business making suggestions for anything. That's unnecessarily aggressive. I agree with the poster's point, which is that no (or very minimal) moderation gives you results that are very undesirable for most communities.
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Yeah, it's not nearly as clear cut as someone running their own forum. It's almost irrelevant that someone happened to register /r/politics or r/worldnews first - those are categories of discussion, and so their size is directly proportional to Reddit's size. The moderators don't own that community (even if they think they do). If the moderators declare that they're moving to Lemmy, let them. I think they'll quickly…
>this particular category has someone who enforces a huge list of arcane rules. and I think a few months with new eyes will show why those arcane rules exist. Losing that tribal knowledge just means the sub will re-experience the same growing pains until we come full circle back to the rules we deemed arcane. Tech moves fast. Human nature, not so much. social media is a lot more about the latter.
> [...] I think a few months with new eyes will show why those arcane rules exist. Losing that tribal knowledge just means the sub will re-experience the same growing pains [...]
I also predict that most people will not even recognize that what they are witnessing is a repetition of what happened before. I think the math of growing a community means most users have joined after the rules (that make the community a decent place to be) were established.