What Reddit Got Wrong

3 years ago by psychothumbs to c/trueneutral

After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access...

Vaggumon 8 points 3 years ago

Everything.

I deleted 2 accounts, 8 year old and 12 year old with a combined 100,000 content. Deleted all my content too. Will never return. Best thing for them to do at this point is nuke Spez from orbit and profusely apologize, but honestly I hope this kills the platform entirely.

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Vuraniute 5 points 3 years ago

Same. Used shreddit.com and nuked my comments AND posts. I won't leave any content for that idiot known as u/spez. Only way for Reddit to be a good platform is to scale down and fire him faster than a Concorde travels a metre.

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baascus 5 points 3 years ago

I doubt that this kills Reddit in a single blow, but I hope that it breathes life into the Fediverse.

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Fhyz -10 points 3 years ago

yeah no you people are just overreacting at this point.

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irkli 1 point 3 years ago

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