Are we witnessing yet-another platform making solid steps towards extinction?
I would not say so. Just getting worst and less used. But, it is very far from extinction.
Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
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Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
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> Most mods know that there are dozens/hundreds of other similar volunteers ready to take their place
Not really. There are not.
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#23Sort 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.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy is a social link aggregator very similar to Reddit, powered by fediverse. Think of it like anyone can host an instance for their community, and all instances can interact with each other. For example check out the instance at https://beehaw.org/
Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
#24Sort 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. https://discourse.org/
I really dislike this community paradigm. The design, I actually prefer the good old forums like vBulletin or IPB. Discourse is a nice project, but I really don't dig this marriage between forum and Q&A.
Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
#25Did anybody expect Reddit to become a better place after all what happened a couple of weeks ago? I was never a big Reddit user, but I'm sure as hell not going to be one in the future.
What happened "a couple of weeks ago"?
Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
#26Sort 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.
Xenforo is the state of the art in terms of forum software but it's not open source (it requires a rather pricey license fee).
For something on the free end, simple machine forums works on most shared hosts (and in terms of selfhost, it's just a PHP + MySQL stack) and should work for most communities. It doesn't require a lot of technical skill to configure/use, which can make it appealing if you don't want to micromanage mods - they'll be able to figure out the interface themselves.
Discourse is popular in tech communities, but I've always found the software to be rather unwieldy and inefficient. It's a ruby dinosaur with all the limitations and advantages that implies. It's also an application that basically demands the "ownership" of an entire server - the devs are explicitly against running other things on the same server that runs Discourse, which is a dealbreaker if you don't have a good budget.
Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
#27Did anybody expect Reddit to become a better place after all what happened a couple of weeks ago? I was never a big Reddit user, but I'm sure as hell not going to be one in the future.
I agree with your sentiment, but I do wonder what could replace reddit. It's true that the larger subreddits have been pretty terrible for years. However, reddit has often been the _only_ good source for useful and true user-sourced information. What vacuum should I buy? How can I get some old PS2 game to run on my steam deck? Can I disable the telematics system on a Toyota Tacoma? etc.
It's easy to see this sort of access to information disappearing, and it's also easy to imagine that even if it didn't die now, it would soon be destroyed by large-scale usage of AI. I think the internet very briefly put a lot of power in the hands of users, but the pendulum is swinging back hard.
Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
#28Reddit 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.
I use old.reddit, with ublock origin not just to block ads but to block specific reddit buttons or things they try to introduce, and with res I have my regular subs I visit added as shortcuts in a top bar.
I never see anything I don't want to, and it's very useable this way. I literally never just see the 'reddit homepage', it's always a sub I specifically want to see.
Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
#29Did anybody expect Reddit to become a better place after all what happened a couple of weeks ago? I was never a big Reddit user, but I'm sure as hell not going to be one in the future.
This isn't "a couple of weeks ago" issue. The enshittification most likely begin when they rolled this modern design and used variety of darkpatterns on existing users to trick them to move into updated interface. This was all done to attract younger audience who has short attention spawn and who doesn't mind ads and sponsored content served via this bulky interface that keeps you interacting with site under dozens of "load more" elements.
Tho, perhaps the slow decay of site started even earlier with arrival of Ellen Pao; content already was spiraling down at that time
I don't think there's any hope for reddit; I expect that site will be even more sanitized to the point no "unsafe" content will be allowed to be posted. There are subs around that already are being used as platform for spreading PR of companies, which have nothing in common with these exotic truly run by ordinary people small communities.
Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
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> Most mods know that there are dozens/hundreds of other similar volunteers ready to take their place Not really. There are not.
As I said, the fear of being replaced is exactly what the /r/formula1 mods cited. https://np.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/14b5vu3/rformula1_...> "My small subreddit can't find people who want to be mods!", you say. That may be true, but those are also, by and large, not the subreddits that were closed in the first place.