I wonder if this will become similar to what happened with digg.com
Hope so... Wonder what would be next though.
Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
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#22Does this actually affect subscribers to sub-reddits? If this is extended indefinitely I would expect competing sub-reddits to form.
I unsubscrided from a few subs that weren't doing the blackout
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#23... until they just take over the moderation of their largest communities and this whole thing ends. I mean what's so magical about the moderation of something like r/videos other than the mods being free labor for Reddit?
Moderation can make or break a subreddit
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I left Reddit back when they decided they don’t care about free speech and banned nonewnormal. What happened to this new normal btw? Everything has reverted to pre-pandemic life here as it seems. Wasn't the expectation that we're going to have to live suppressed for all time?
This would be them saying that they've won the battle. And it's quite possible that some of the left-wing political response to shelter-in-place orders and mask mandates, namely deciding to end them as policy, is because of right-wing (and some left-wing) pushback. I just don't know how much. Though I think it was stupid as hell the way they ended both social distancing and mask mandates back in July of 2021, when in…
It is also possible that their pushback made stronger mandates necessary and thus prolonged the whole thing. Without data it's all speculation.
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> I left Reddit back when they decided they don’t care about free speech and banned nonewnormal. What happened to this new normal btw? Everything has reverted to pre-pandemic life here as it seems. Wasn't the expectation that we're going to have to live suppressed for all time?
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#28This may prompt Reddit to push ahead on their threat to take over key subs that stay dark by replacing the moderators with their own. Of course, Reddit can't afford to scale that to very many popular subs as modding those is extremely labor intensive.
Worse for Reddit, dumping long-time community moderators en masse would be crossing a Rubicon that could tip Reddit into a death spiral of low-effort moderation reducing content quality and engagement which will feed back on itself. The mods going dark for longer may in fact be hoping to goad Reddit into responding with such self-destructive stupidity.
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#29Reddit would be infinitely better without any subreddits bigger than about 100k subscribers.
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#30Expect more sealed off content. Thanks to ai scrapers more companies will want to close their apis or charge a fee. Heck even openai, the main leech want to prevent others from “training” their bots against their ai that has been trained on other people’s work, bandwidth and ip. Mods closing subreddits are just a symptom.