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In 10 years we'll be talking about Reddit like we talk about MySpace today.
* Tumblr was living from NSFW content and when they banned NSFW content Tumblr basically ceased to exist.
* Reddit is living from free moderation and when they banned 3rd party tools for moderation, because Reddit ones sucks, they might be going in same direction as Tumblr.
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Spez decided to reject that and focus on reddit as a mainstream platform, and as such, disallow and get back the power from the communities and their mods. It'll lower the weird good quality the site has and they will never compete with tiktok for mass attention.
You're right that reddit owns the website, but they don't own the communities. And right now, they're loosing peoples goodwill as well.
they have every right to do so and it's well needed. Few teenager thinking they are playing games just by being a mod of a commercial platform. bunch of kids.
I feel you think the answers are obvious. They are not to me.
Seems like this thread is getting suppressed. We have front page submissions that have been around for an hour and have just 7 votes while this one is 45 minutes old and has 35. Weird and non transparent moderation decision.
I am glad these subreddits have been returned back to the community, perhaps the Reddit staff can moderate for now.
This is good to see, a lot of moderators are power hungry, egotistical jerks. I am glad these subreddits have been returned back to the community, perhaps the Reddit staff can moderate for now.
The community voted on the changes. You can go look up the polls that were held for yourself.
>perhaps the Reddit staff can moderate for now
Lol. Not a viable business model for reddit. Their entire revenue is less than what facebook spends on just moderation.
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They don't need users to generate content anymore. They have LLMs trained to strategically produce the best comments.
I wonder how long it would take to notice. Shadowban all users. Respond to their comments and posts with AI generated responses only visible to the poster. Redditors famously don't want others to know their handle so they won't share it around. You could only tell from a signed out device reading something you commented in. Flood the site with generated posts and 'engagement' that is all ad friendly. Turn the whole p…
> Do this pre IPO then bail forever.
I wonder if that would constitute what the SEC calls "Internet fraud" at that point.
In 10 years we'll be talking about Reddit like we talk about MySpace today.
Actually it feels more like Tumblr. * Tumblr was living from NSFW content and when they banned NSFW content Tumblr basically ceased to exist. * Reddit is living from free moderation and when they banned 3rd party tools for moderation, because Reddit ones sucks, they might be going in same direction as Tumblr.
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Actually it feels more like Tumblr. * Tumblr was living from NSFW content and when they banned NSFW content Tumblr basically ceased to exist. * Reddit is living from free moderation and when they banned 3rd party tools for moderation, because Reddit ones sucks, they might be going in same direction as Tumblr.
Um... maybe this proves your point... but what is Tumblr? Is it some sort of image hosting site like Flickr or Imgur?