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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.
Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
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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.
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#43I haven't noticed anything. I follow some video game and hobby subs through RSS. Everything is pretty much the same.
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#44Honestly 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.
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#45I personally stopped visiting Reddit on regular basis after all these actually.
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#46Not 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 any research.
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#47Did 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"?
Reddit started charging huge money for API access. Thing is, reddits leadership are wildly incompetent and those APIs were relied upon by the mods to actually handle the vast oceans of posts that go on each day.
Its left the mods with greatly increased workload as they now need to use the crappy tools Reddit gives them, and for some communities like the folks on /r/blind the site is totally unusable.
Most subreddits have ended the protests, and those that don't have had their mod teams forceably replaced, usually be people who are more interested in being mods than actually moderating.
Reddit had hundreds, if not a thousand people willing to work for free managing their site for them and they still screwed it up, just unbelievable stuff.
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#49Reddit 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.
Facebook's recommended images are even worse. [picture of a surveyors dot on the ground] "This dot in a field in Wisconsin is the center of the world. The other points are inaccessible due to water, but this tiny dot is..." [picture of a dead something with a pig snout completely covered in farmers field mud] "This 30,000 year old cave bear was found with DNA still extractable."
> Facebook's recommended images are even worse.
I did log into Messenger (Lite version if that matters) quite recently - while I'm not using site anymore for more than 10 years or so, I do periodically check if people on my friends list want something. So I started scrolling thru contact list to see who's online and at some point some random people started to appear. Some whom I sent once a message, then even totally random ones I never heard about (perhaps some cross-friends pairing happen) and next, some local celebrities that perhaps I'd like to talk to acc. to fb, and some weird profiles pulled out of nowhere.
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#50Reddit has a massive botting and scamming problem, but they provide almost no meaningful ways for mods to counteract it. It's the same issue that other social media sites like Twitter have. Bots pad their user metrics, so it's in their best interest to look the other way.
This has resulted in a degradation of content quality, especially so in the last three years with the rise of short-form garbage. A loss of mods who had genuine passion for their respective sub-communities will only worsen the problem. I give it a few years before Reddit is dominated by bots talking to one another using ChatGPT-generated swill.