It frustrated me when Reddit made the initial decision to screw over app developers. Having done dev work in the past, I know the time that goes in to them so someone asking for a little money in return is the least we can do. But no, Reddit just say “Screw you guys”!
As if that was not enough, they are now showing that they really don’t care about the many moderators that have painstakingly put years of ‘free’ time in to building these communities, the same communities that are the foundation of Reddit!
I am sure we are going to see a lot more of these admin takeovers in the coming weeks and it is the very reason I am over here and why Lemmy is seeing the incredible growth curve. Long may that continue.
This is hilarious tbh. Please don’t get me wrong, I really feel for the mods who put so much time and energy into the sub (all subs for that matter). It sucks.
But god, watching reddit implode feels so fucking good. Spez is an abrasive asshole and, it turns out, also a moron, and it’s nice to see his web site fall from grace so publicly.
I can’t wait to see their IPO fail dismally, at least I hope so.
Spez is an abrasive asshole and, it turns out, also a moron
Is he really abrasive? I haven’t seen him say anything outside of what I’d expect an exec of a company to say.
Is he really a moron? Dude is walking away with a lot of zeros in his bank account. From what I can tell, it sounds like he’s pretty happy with the outcome.
I’m not supporting him, but assuming he makes money from it, it would be childish to call him “dumb”.
Gotta make money for when the world ends.
Can we find his bunker and take turns shitting in it?
Cool, now do AskHistorians
I’d like to see about implementing some sort of identity verification service for the sub. I’m an IT engineer/developer, so coding is absolutely my forte… Services like Stripe allow people in over 100 countries to match face to government-issued-ID to prove their identity (at a cost of about $1.50 per verification).
YIKES
Would love a subreddit drama over here lol
lol Reddit’s death has finally started. Can’t wait to see spez’s asswipe shills bring the whole thing down with their incompetence.
EDIT: I went through the subredditdrama post, and looking at some of the comments made me glad I’m leaving that place.
Should we start our own subredditdrama? Or is there one? I foresee lots of this kind stuff on the way.
You mean for Reddit drama, or Lemmy drama?
I vote for both!
Incoming revolving door of Mods who get burnt.
The line of people who want the authority but whom cannot handle the responsibility extends around the block.
Mod turnover will go through the roof. Make no mistake, this is not an untried strategy from Reddit. You get rid off those who can do the job well but are not on-board, you replace them with sycophants who cannot do the job but will tow the line. When shit goes south you hang them out to dry and get in the new batch. Very well known corporate strategy.
I have zero modding experience, but I know that doing the job well would be harder (and more time consuming) than it looks.
I’m guessing that most new mods that reddit will end up with just want the “power” but will fall on their faces when it comes to performance. I’m grateful to the good mods on every site/sub/instance who do it for free. Thanks, everyone!
I’ve modded a fair few subs. It’s difficult, boring and thankless work for no reward beyond the satisfaction of smoothly running a community you’re passionate about…or power tripping, for those who’re into that.
Most people who end up becoming mods will burn out pretty fucking quick. Not to mention, there’ll be cases where a sub requires a certain subject matter expert for mod work and…well, those ain’t easy to find.
If you elect me as head mod I promise to only ban people who I don’t like (I hate everyone)
I’m afraid to say I’m a mod on FB lol, but it’s a UK US based weather group that I’m very passionate about with 92k members.
Basically as a mod, never argue with a member, never show a member up to the rest of the group, there are better ways to deal with things other than flat out banning someone. Being a mod should be keeping things under control so the group remains a good place to go. That’s all.
Our main problem is the fake accounts from the Military pilots wanting to speak to the lovely ladies or make you a killing with bitcoin lol.
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In 3 days when third party apps die it’s going to be so fucking funny lmao. Lemmy is gonna explode.
That is a problem… if it does, there needs to be an announcement made on time by the biggest instances to NOT register on them, but register on smaller instances.
People are going to all be sheep and go to the biggest one regardless, assuming it is just like Reddit.
And if that happens Lemmy will be in a bad spot, because the network can’t handle a mass exodus from Reddit. Which in turn will lead to people coming back to Reddit announcing that the Fediverse is unstable and broken garbage.
Just let it burn down at this point. Shorting this stock is going to be easy easy money
Remember kids, “the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”.
I just deleted my account. Welp that’s 15 years gone. Feels good. Tastes like chicken.
14 years here. Ran it through https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite first, without deleting the account, in case they restore the comments: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/issues/43
PS: I know about the implications of potentially removing contributions to the internet. But, I’m not about to go through a decade+ plus of comments and posts in order to find the tiny amount of things that could actually be useful for others.
PS: I know about the implications of potentially removing contributions to the internet.
Reddit does not get to continue to profit off of any contributions I’ve made to the internet, one way or another. Anyone convincing you not to delete comments on reddit is a scab more concerned with maintaining the status quo so they don’t get inconvenienced.
This is why their moderators’ best weapon is to not moderate and let all hell break loose. Reddit will then be forced to pull this shit and it’ll go to hell fast. It’s their best weapon, better than going NSFW or dark in protest. Just silently stop moderating and let Reddit and advertisers notice when they aren’t.
Sadly people are quite dedicated to doing work for free for some reason
Well, it’s not a huge mystery or anything…people love the communities they build up. You feel a sense of loyalty to the people and to the idea behind the community.
From the outside looking in, I can see it being “working for free”, but by that measure wouldn’t any instance of you contributing anything that benefits others to be “working for free”?
Half of the tech support knowledge I have comes from people “working for free”.
I think the sad part about Reddit is that there’s still a lot of people that want to hold on to what they’ve built up, and Reddit is banking on that to force them to change.
Well, it’s not a huge mystery or anything…people love the communities they build up. You feel a sense of loyalty to the people and to the idea behind the community.
Dude. Its about power and control. It has little to do with any sense of loyalty. I’m sure there are a few that have some measure of loyalty, but very few mods are doing it because they just love the topic they moderate. They’re doing it because it gives them power and control and they love that. Absolutely no one can convince me otherwise.
I think there’s plenty of mods on both sides of that argument.
Some do love the communities they’ve built up and some just love the power trip in their miserable lives.
I don’t agree, not all mods are power hungry, some subs are what they are today because of their mods.
I think it’s mostly about wielding power tbh
People like you would think that
Totally this. This is a brand spankin’ new mod, hardly someone who has built the community. Heck he snuck up on the lead mod within a matter of hours after being made a mod.
Oof. I read a decent amount of comments, definitely getting shill/snitch/power seeking vibes, add to that the admins…what a shit show
That dude is pathetic.
It’s like when they replace a character with a worse version in a show.
