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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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Post by johnnyanmac »

Devasta wrote: post #76
robin_reala wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For non-commercial accessibility tools. Because Reddit doesn’t know how to fix accessibility in their own app. A shitshow, either way you look at it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/14n9426/accessibil... The last time the mods on /r/blind asked for a demo with screen curtain on, they were met with silence.

disappointing but not unexpected. These are just other "irrelevant power users" to reddit, but for the sake of pretending to care they at least try to keep up the appearance of caring.

And for those who go "the average redditor doesn't care": well, here is another example of "power user" you may not have considered. They certainly are the minority, can't disagree with that.

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by johnnyanmac »

causality0 wrote: post #44
PrimeMcFly wrote: post #20

Honestly 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.

I have the same impression. Frankly some of mine have gotten better after the replacement mods have less of a stick up their ass. A couple have even changed posting rules to be less restrictive, like allowing people to talk about ROM sites.

>even changed posting rules to be less restrictive, like allowing people to talk about ROM sites.

sounds like a rule that will get the sub banned if/when they ever get too much attention. Reddit will definitely side with the corporations is they get enough heat on them.

>A lot of the mods seemed to be fine with the destruction of their communities as long as it was them who got to pull the trigger and not the admins.

I'm sure they weren't fine, but if shutting down for 2 weeks is enough to destroy a community, it shows how much "community" was really there to begin with.

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by PrimeMcFly »

causality0 wrote: post #90
PrimeMcFly wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Frankly some of mine have gotten better after the replacement mods have less of a stick up their ass Very much this. A few tiny little despots got toppled, and the world goes on.

I fully supported the protests by major subreddits. My problem was that a lot of the smaller subs couldn't see the forest for the trees and, ostensibly for the sake of the survival of Reddit, destroyed themselves. The subreddit that gets five hundred posts per day bounces right back after two days offline. The niche sub that gets about ten posts per day, however, doesn't survive being shut down for two weeks. A lot o…

> A lot of the mods seemed to be fine with the destruction of their communities as long as it was them who got to pull the trigger and not the admins.

Well, yeah. Most reddit mods are in it to some extent for the power, not pure benevolence. This tracks completely.

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by johnnyanmac »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #41
bagels wrote: post #18

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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.

Depends on ones cultural lense. I think it's quite succinct and memorable.

the cultural lens of "it's not okay to casually curse in professional settings" doesn't agree, unfortunately.

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by johnnyanmac »

kibwen wrote: post #42
bagels wrote: post #18

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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.

Enshittification is a good name because it's deliberately provocative and attention-grabbing. There's no need to sugarcoat what these shitty companies are doing.

>There's no need to sugarcoat what these shitty companies are doing.

if you're fine with it remaining as internet ramblings, sure.

If you want anyone serious to challenge these companiies, then you already made their jobs harder to do. But I guess the internet never really cared about change. Just a place to yell into the void.

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by terribleperson »

hellweaver666 wrote: post #46
brisdak wrote: post #11

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

You just have to sign-out and look at the homepage to see this. It's all attention grabbing subs like AITAH or "amiugly" or "ratemyface" etc etc etc. All the interesting subs have withered away and died. Take /r/3dprinting for example, there used to be cool new models shared there every single day, now it's just people sharing pictures of benchies, globs of spaghetti and the odd question from someone that hasn't done…

/r/3dprinting dropped substantially in quality when /u/billierubencamgirl left the mod team. They had fought hard against meme posts, "look at my new printer/1st print" posts, and fad print spam. They had also tried very hard to maintain useful documentation for people.

It seems that keeping a subreddit high quality is a difficult and thankless job. You will be seen as the fun police and all your efforts downplayed as unnecessary.

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by goplayoutside »

LeSaucy wrote: post #23
nickpeterson wrote: post #9

Sort 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/

Lemmy is fantastic and the devs seem to be actively fixing bugs and introducing new features, but imo they desperately need to build an automoderator.

I've had a Lemmy instance for a niche hobby built and waiting to go live for months now, but I'm not going to subject myself to the headaches of fully manual moderation.

There are a few unofficial repos for Lemmy automod functionality, but last time I checked, they all appeared to be early alpha stage.

It seems like a glaring oversight by the core contributors, and I don't understand how it's not a top priority.

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by intended »

PrimeMcFly wrote: post #93
causality0 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I fully supported the protests by major subreddits. My problem was that a lot of the smaller subs couldn't see the forest for the trees and, ostensibly for the sake of the survival of Reddit, destroyed themselves. The subreddit that gets five hundred posts per day bounces right back after two days offline. The niche sub that gets about ten posts per day, however, doesn't survive being shut down for two weeks. A lot o…

> A lot of the mods seemed to be fine with the destruction of their communities as long as it was them who got to pull the trigger and not the admins. Well, yeah. Most reddit mods are in it to some extent for the power, not pure benevolence. This tracks completely.

Cant the community revive itself though?

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by goplayoutside »

jaggs wrote: post #34
LeSaucy wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

I use old.lemmy.world for a Reddit classic experience.

There's also a *monkey script for an old.reddit UI[1] (no affiliation).

1. https://github.com/soundjester/lemmy_monkey

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