In a comment shared by r/Apple moderator @aaronp613, Reddit cited its Moderator Code of Conduct and said that it has a duty to keep communities “relied upon by thousands or even millions of users” operational. Mods who do not agree to reopen subreddits that have gone private will be removed.
If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users. If there is no consensus, but at least one mod wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.
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Flash forward 8-10 months and the news post reads: “After catastrophic exodus Reddit asks to join the #fediverse to add content to platform in hopes of salvaging doomed IPO”
They don’t need to ask to join.
This actually will probably happen down the line. And reddit will only keep its user base if they provide a better ui.
Lmao there’s no way reddit figures out how to make a ui. They’re doomed if the fediverse keeps growing
But the instances need to allow their participation and many will not without a hat in hand.
Reddit spent years coming up with the shitty new.reddit UI. By the time they improve it again, humans would have landed on Mars
I think you should put “improve” in quotes. Someone might accidentally think you surf new reddit, and I’d hate for anyone to think that of me.
Honestly, Reddit is likely to keep on trucking with a decent sized user base no matter what. A massive number of people aren’t gonna leave, if for nothing but simply not wanting to have to change. I think the most likely thing that happens is that Reddit loses a small chunk of people, their growth heavily slows due to competition and a slow trickle of people leaving (but likely offset by the network effect still favouring them for new people), and they take a revenue ding because advertisers aren’t gonna like all this drama.
The Fediverse will probably have a bit more rapid growth as the blackouts still continue in some subs and more people become aware of alternatives to Reddit, but then just grows slowly, with usability being the big barrier to massive adoption.
Mostly power users will leave for something else, which in turn leads to worse content on Reddit.
power users and mods leaving. The big key is how moderation continues on reddit. whether the scab mods and those that stayed are able to control the bots and spam or not. if they can, then reddit continues mostly as normal.
Probably the most realistic comment here. Changes may come, quality may decline, but reddit is here to stay
Puts for days on Reddit.
And within hours, most instances will have preemptively defederated from it.
Imagine trying to go public and creating this firestorm right before doing it. Complete incompetence.
This makes me think the protests are having more of an impact than they are admitting. Gotta be feeling a hit financially withs ads to make this sort of move this early. Oh well fuck em. Only reason I’ve visited in the past week was to nuke my 16 year old account.
There is no way I’m going back to Reddit, the higher ups are greedy and scummy people. Hope the moderator’s they change to end up creating a toxic cess pool and bring them down with it.
I’m gonna laugh my ass of in the end of these hostile mod removals, they end up paying them and their now reddit employees with a union…
reddit has a duty to keep subreddits open if they dont want their IPO to die in a fire.
reddit does not give a flying fuck about their users - it hasnt for quite some time.
stay private/blacked out for eternity, let that platform collapse.
Let them do it, only pushes more people to alternatives.
It might push more power users away. It won’t push away the teeming masses.
Quality will suffer, but they’ll keep their traffic.
Yeah but there will still be decay. The teeming masses are there to see what the power users are doing. A dip in content quality will lead to a migration like what came a couple years after the Digg migration when the Stumbleupon folks needed a new home
I can live with that. Actually, I would be happy with that if that means those power users will be coming here.
I wish, but I’ve seen a bunch of redditors in the last few days say they didn’t even know 3rd party apps existed. Even complaining about the blackouts how all it’s doing is hurting the users. Idk if those are bots, paid comments, or what, but I’m sure a lot of people actually think that and it’s sooo frustrating.
they didn’t even know 3rd party apps existed.
then they shall remain in the blackest ocean abyss with lidless eyes forever staring at the dark. ignorant and doomed despite their eternal vigilance
It won’t happen overnight. Reddit will be slowly bleeding users in the coming months and after lemmyverse reaches critical mass, there will be no going back.
Plenty of newer reddit users legitimately think reddit itself is just an app and have no clue there’s even a desktop site. I’ve blown some minds when I mentioned the fact that I’d been using the best third party app RiF for over a decade and used old reddit on desktop.
Whatever this turns out to be it will establish a precedent that all social media conglomerates will set the bar at.
freenode, twitter, reddit shit like this is always a sign of the end
You mean a heavy handed approach and forcing your will on voluntary participants of your social media platform is bad for business?!?!
Didn’t they already put a scab in r/adviceanimals?
No. The short story there was an inactive mod was top mod and came back just to make the whole sub private and got backlash from the most active mod about it. Admins ended up removing the inactive mod. There is additional back and forth between the two that got posted but it basically ends as the one actually doing the work gained full control.
Yea but cedarwolf is online 24/7. Fucking scary powermod
Yes, they installed a new head mod and the new head mod bans anyone who brings it up. The new mod is a moderator of 106 different subreddits.
The funny thing is that many people remaining on reddit have been praising the admins for threatening to remove mods, because they hate the power mods who control all the subs and want to see them removed, but that’s exactly who reddit is using to replace the mods they dislike.I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if some of these moderators are actually PR Firms or similar.
They’re digging their own graves.
Digg, get it?
Diggit
Imagine being the only mod in a large subreddit, leading an army of untrained recruits. What does that mean for the health of that community? The quality of the subjects and posts isn’t going to be very good, particularly if people start birigading or something.
They are getting rid of their best volunteers.
They don’t care, they just want the community to be open so that they can have the most content the users can scroll through while seeing their precious ads.
Value of the content doesn’t really matter i guess…
Can’t say I’m surprised.
They did say that they would do it, after all.
No this was literally just a part of the contingency plan. The whole point of their API change is literally to push out anyone even mildly tech-savvy, and keep all the people who blindly just scroll through posts and consume the ads just like other content.
Classic strikebusting. “Oh you won’t work for an increasingly bad shake? Guess I’ll put these scabs in place instead.”
What’s stopping the entire mod team from nuking the sub? They can remove all formatting, ban the entire userbase and remove all mod bots.
And then Reddit restores from backup.
and opens themselves to brigading.
Rollback on to a backup probably
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if Reddit has put rate-limiting in place to prevent mass actions like that.
Normally I wouldn’t give their engineers enough credit to figure something like that out, but in this case rate-limiting already exists for posts, comments, chat, etc.
Aperently r/shadowwar has already done this
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It’s nice when it doesn’t feel like shoring into a void, right?
