Not sure if bias but I feel like the quality of content on reddit has gone downhill since the mod purge and the killing of 3rd party apps
Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
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#12Sort of a side question, but what is the state of the art in open source community hosting? I know a bit about tools like Zulip, but was thinking something more like forums. They feel very dated, which surprises me since Reddit seems a straightforward thing to compete against.
Discourse perhaps? I've seen it in use in a few places; it has a modern look and feel to it at least.
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#13There's also a high number of quality contributors which just left without any ceremony.
It's the same as Twitter, officially the metrics are saying that it's alright but in reality the quality contributors leaving makes it a repost ghost-town.
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#14Reddit has gotten very aggressive about pushing random subs onto you. I’ve really come to loathe the phrase “Because you interacted with a similar community”. I have muted so many subs, I’m getting sick of the site.
Facebook's recommended images are even worse.
[picture of a surveyors dot on the ground]
"This dot in a field in Wisconsin is the center of the world. The other points are inaccessible due to water, but this tiny dot is..."
[picture of a dead something with a pig snout completely covered in farmers field mud] "This 30,000 year old cave bear was found with DNA still extractable."
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#15If the moderators of canning cared so much about their community they wouldn't have closed it I guess.
The problem is that Reddit's own features for moderators are abysmal. I don't know what Reddit's 2.000 employees are doing all day, but people have lamented that for years now without much significant change - and then Reddit just shut down the public API, which made moderation work muuuch more difficult.
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This concept really could have been better served by a different name. It's hard to take it seriously with this name.
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#20Honestly not much has changed. Some of the big subs that did their protests had their mods replaced, that's it.
I'm not on any of the big ('default') subs, all the smaller ones I'm on are operating the same as they ever did, with some doing a stupid one day a week protest. That's literally the only change.