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A few larger moderators I know personally are saying they aren’t enjoying the new Reddit experience and at least one says they plan to leave within a few months.
What really isn’t being talked about is the fractured trust. None of them feel they are maintaining their own community anymore. They feel like they are maintaining a subreddit for Reddit’s profit ambitions. That’s a huge distinction.
The other side is just being forced to moderate via the website or their trash app. They hate the experience now. If you were a mobile-only moderator, you hate it now, almost guaranteed.
Then the bot detection network and everything else shutting down is making the free service they provide feel more and more like a job vs “for the good feeling of building a community.”
Reddit won’t die overnight but it will continue to decay with users slowly making their exit to other platforms.
Glad to see this being acknowledged/making the rounds. I highlighted some of this in my own mod resignation post (not to pat myself too hard on the back here), as have other members of the mod team I was a part of. The changes are bad, but the complete disregard for (and dismissal of) this relationship mods and Reddit crafted for over 15 years just came crumbling down. No matter what the future holds for the site, that relationship is dead. And many of us don’t want to mod under the new circumstances.
Just wanted to say, I really enjoyed Reddit prior to the API-apocalypse. I appreciated all of you guys and gals over there keeping things structured and orderly. I came from Slashdot to Digg to Reddit and now Lemmy. Really enjoying it here but there’s always that thought in the back of my mind of hoping it doesn’t grow to the scope of Reddit.
Right now, we seem to have a lot of technical folks who contribute. Far less fighting and drama. It’s been nice. lol
Someone on another thread linked in this comment about the “trust thermocline”. That thread is in regard to Twitter, but it’s also very relevant to what’s going on with reddit.
maintaining a subreddit for Reddit’s profit ambitions.
Always have been 👩🏽🚀🔫👩🏽🚀
maintaining a subreddit for Reddit’s profit ambitions.
Always have been 👩🏽🚀🔫👩🏽🚀
Why dont you tell that mod to just leave now? I dont see a reason to continueing to work for free on something hes going to leave
That’s not really my place to say something like that. When you spend literal YEARS building something on someone else’s platform, it takes a bit of time to let go.
I personally had a hard time adjusting to the idea of losing Apollo, an app I spent thousands of hours using. I can’t imagine having to let go of a massive community you’ve worked so hard to build.
I think they are trying to come up with an exit strategy to another platform. They like Lemmy World but don’t like the fractured idea of each instance having the same name for a community.
In reality, it’s just an excuse to put off the inevitable. They really don’t want to rebuild, so it’s all or nothing and a tough thing to let go.
I think they are trying to come up with an exit strategy to another platform. The more they put this off and delay and delay the less likely they are to gain any traction of users to move, if anything I think it’s just an excuse to not move as you said later.
In reality, it’s just an excuse to put off the inevitable. They really don’t want to rebuild, so it’s all or nothing and a tough thing to let go.
Truth is they don’t want to leave reddit and most moderators had their bluff called about the situation. I’m not saying they’re power hungry or spez was right but they don’t want to leave because it’s too difficult for them to start over and build communities or they don’t have the skills to do it. Some might dislike the lack of prestige as well who knows. However, they’re sticking around clearly because they don’t want to leave and deep down inside they have hope that something will change and they will go back to the old normal, some will come to accept the new normal and change their minds.
I’ve personally been down this route before where I invested thousands of man hours into communities but sometimes you just need to know it’s time to move on close up shop and do something else, I just don’t think most of the people who moderate on Reddit have the stomach for it.
“Lemmy is the New Reddit”
Hip Hip, Hooray! 😁
I found out yesterday when I kept getting “429” errors. It was good for not giving Reddit any traffic.
LEMMY IS THE NEW REDDIT
WELL… if you like lemmy, and you want the reddit-look… there IS solutions to that problem!!
That’s the great thing about Lemmy being open-source and decentralized. Miss Old Reddit? They got you. Miss Apollo? Wefwef/Voyager.
Voyager and Apollo. It makes sense why the name was suddenly changed.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy Goes back to the 1960s (see also the Lewis Powell memo)
(also see “The Democracy Project” by David Graeber get it cash from a used bookstore leave no trace LNT )
