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Re: 7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are currently dark

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Post by alephnerd »

dimmke wrote: post #28
colpabar wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it possible they want to change that? I'm sure the board is aware of how the site works and how important all the unpaid labor is to keeping it alive. But maybe they don't like that? It seems like the most profitable thing for a social media platform is to make it appeal to everyone , and not just "reddit people", for lack of a better term. My normie friends who all have instagrams and tiktoks are not on reddit be…

How old are you? Because I feel like Gen Z makes jokes about “Reddit guys” and “Discord mods” but they all absolutely do use those platforms. They’re basically unavoidable. I’ve seen more than one tiktok with 100k+ likes joking about how they add “reddit.com” to their Google search queries to get real results instead of SEO/sales funnel optimized shit

We use it but with a burning sense of hate.

When you go to college, the only anonymous forum you can use is your college's subreddit, when you apply for internships the only forum for somewhat actionable career advice is cscareerquestions, and when applying to Law School or BSchool all the relevant information/tips/guidelines/strategies are all hosted on LawSchoolAdmissions and MBA.

We all know Reddit is a toxic piece of garbage but where else can you find actionable advice at scale?

I haven't seen as much hate for Discord, but Discord has a discovery problem and is still kind of niche.

Re: 7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are currently dark

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Post by SpaceManNabs »

tester457 wrote: post #10
Raidion wrote: post #2

What's the next play for Reddit leadership? I feel like it's just a "wait and hope it all blows over?". If they don't change, are all of these subreddits going to stay dark? If the subreddits do stay dark, how long will it take before someone creates a replacement that gains enough traction? I'm participating in the Reddit blackout (as a 15y user), and I love to see the collective action, but not sure if it's really…

Only some of the subreddits are going to stay dark unfortunately. The mods are worried that if they stay private too soon, scab redditors will make their own subreddits and take their niche's users.

Probably for the best. So many reddit users are overly pejorative to moderators because of bad experiences. Let the current moderators get replaced and maybe people will appreciate the previous experience.

Maybe then, reddit will get off its ass and build proper tooling for moderators.

Re: 7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are currently dark

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Post by SpaceManNabs »

tmysl wrote: post #8

They are hoping people start "forgetting" like they have about twitter. I'm of the impression that reedit's core users are too stubborn and too involved to let this slide. At best this trigger a vote of reddit's board and they oust the idiot that is responsible, and we can hope for a better stance from the next one. Realistically it will probably blow over and people that actually care will move to or create somethin…

> They are hoping people start "forgetting" like they have about twitter

Forget about twitter or forget about Twitter's latest issues and decisions? Because I used to open twitter 3 times a day to periodically check in on recent research and stuff. I stopped doing that (maybe once a month now) because all of my fav researchers would get vitriol in the comment sections.

Re: 7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are currently dark

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Post by katbyte »

EA-3167 wrote: post #22
juujian wrote: post #12

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Twitter seems to be on a poor trajectory. What Reddit is up to is bad enough, but if the leadership was looking at Twitter and thinking "yeah, let's do that", that would be even sadder.

Twitter has also been bleeding advertisers, the estimates I saw in a recent NYT article put it at 59% down from the same time last year. I don't see how that's sustainable for a company with a debt structure like Twitter's.

They seem to have gone the route of “just stop paying the bills”

Re: 7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are currently dark

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Post by TheNewsIsHere »

jandrese wrote: post #20
phpisthebest wrote: post #17

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as the mods of Ask Historians have explained, and I have seen in the subreddits that I visits. Finding unpaid labor is much harder then finding paid labor, and many companies can not find paid labor right now.... Most of the subreddits were already having moderator staffing issues and were very much understaffed with no one wanting to do it... Couple that with the shit show moderating the site will be with only offic…

As long as the IPO investors don't know that it is all good.

There’s been very poorly detailed/researched press coverage even in tech circles about this.

I do worry about the quality of credible press coverage around this. The issues are much deeper than charging for the API. Many prudent points are missed even in the “I was there when it happened” explainers.

Re: 7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are currently dark

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Post by colpabar »

dimmke wrote: post #28
colpabar wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it possible they want to change that? I'm sure the board is aware of how the site works and how important all the unpaid labor is to keeping it alive. But maybe they don't like that? It seems like the most profitable thing for a social media platform is to make it appeal to everyone , and not just "reddit people", for lack of a better term. My normie friends who all have instagrams and tiktoks are not on reddit be…

How old are you? Because I feel like Gen Z makes jokes about “Reddit guys” and “Discord mods” but they all absolutely do use those platforms. They’re basically unavoidable. I’ve seen more than one tiktok with 100k+ likes joking about how they add “reddit.com” to their Google search queries to get real results instead of SEO/sales funnel optimized shit

I'm a millennial, so I can't really speak for zoomers. But to speculate, I'd say that a lot of people are on discord because if you play video games, you're probably on discord to socialize and/or to use the audio/video chatroom stuff when actually gaming. But the reddit thing seems more like a "lifehack" content thing than anything else. I doubt many people saw that tiktok and created a reddit account because of it, which is what I consider "using reddit". And 100k seems like a lot, but couldn't that just be all the reddit users who also use tiktok?

Re: 7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are currently dark

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Post by Tuna-Fish »

colpabar wrote: post #23
liotier wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference with Twitter is that Reddit's core is moderators. Reddit is moderators. Reddit thinking they can piss off moderators an incredible level of not understanding what makes their company run.

Is it possible they want to change that? I'm sure the board is aware of how the site works and how important all the unpaid labor is to keeping it alive. But maybe they don't like that? It seems like the most profitable thing for a social media platform is to make it appeal to everyone , and not just "reddit people", for lack of a better term. My normie friends who all have instagrams and tiktoks are not on reddit be…

They could ditch all the moderators by choosing to ditch them. But what would they replace them with?

Mods do useful work that needs to be done, and anything Reddit could do to replace them is going to cost so, so much more. The alternative is a site overrun with trash.

Re: 7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are currently dark

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Post by xyx0826 »

Semaphor wrote: post #21
causi wrote: post #16

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Which I appreciate. My biggest worry about the doom of Reddit is that Reddit has replaced forums for compendiums of knowledge and solutions to problems and that will all go away.

I think/hope the Archive Team managed to backup all or almost all of reddit.

Reddit was archived by PushShift, which was killed along the API changes. Nevertheless the archives remained online. https://the-eye.eu/redarcs/
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