Can Reddit survive as its volunteer workforce close down subreddits and walk away from the site in protest at the management’s new policies?

  • IgnoreKassandra@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s not a loss of volunteer manpower, its just a changing of the guard. Sadly there will always be legions of scabs willing to take the place of those protesting.

    • parrot-party@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      It takes more than warm bodies to maintain a large community. There’s tons of people lining up because they imagine being a moderator of a large sub is a power trip. What they’ll actually find is that the job sucks. There’s not a whole lot of power tripping to be had. It’s mostly boring administration, filtering out obvious trash, all for the low low price of free.

      I foresee a ton of turn over as scabs abandon post and Reddit admins scramble to keep finding more fresh meat to grind.