Never mind all those mods who work for free that they're chosing to screw over and sabotage. I'm sure this won't have any negative consequences.
Never mind all those mods who work for free that they're chosing to screw over and sabotage. I'm sure this won't have any negative consequences.
We're gonna see reddit go the "free speech" route because that's cheaper than hiring mods. Course they could have kept things the way they were and got their mods for free, but w/e lmao.
Reddit is gonna get flooded with garbage content and bigoted shit and most people are gonna leave. Hopefully they'll come here.
Today I made the jump and deleted my last account. I used Reddit one way or another for the last 16 years. It feels weird, but at the same time, I simply couldn't support the platform anymore. Being honest, it hasn't been like the platform I once loved using for a long time. Bots run rampant, the same two to three memes get regurgitated over and over and Spez has just been the idiot to break the camel's back.
I'm grateful for reddit. It was because of it that I found the fediverse.
yep, deleted my 11 year account today
Unless you purged your content before deleting you didn't really do much.
Since they are restoring deleted comments purging your content isn't doing much more. What a scum bag company. Lol
I think I will wait a bit to try and delete mine. Hopefully they get tired of cat and mouse delete game.
Same. I just deleted all my content, but not the account itself since they appear to be rolling back comment deletions. I'll delete my content as many times as I need to before I delete my account fully.
I'm grateful for reddit. It was because of them that I found the fediverse. And I too deleted a decade old history and account from reddit
Welcome here! I also deleted all my accounts. First felt weird, but now I found Lemmy I don't look back. I don't want to support a business run by such a lunatic.
I'm actually impressed how active this place is
Going to be interesting to see how much more active it gets in the coming weeks
I didn't have an account, but I ended up uninstalling the app I was using. I couldn't support it, even as an "outside' lurker. I'm happy to be here though!
spez is an angry little man because someone is ruining his payout
greedy little pigboy*
Really, the best part about all this shit is Reddit could've implemented a paid 3rd party API that wasn't insane. They could've updated their terms of service and required 3rd party apps to display ads. Shit, they could've leveraged the existing OAuth stuff to limit the 3rd party API access to users with Reddit Gold.
But nah, spez decided to be a greedy shitbird.
A big fuck you to Reddit users from the CEO of a company crumbling itself to pieces.
Not my first upvote here, but my second comment. Seeing the news about how spez is behaving, I’m glad I’m making the jump to lemmy. Haven’t deleted my account yet, still saving a few things before nuking my post/comment history and deleting my account
Welcome!
I am new here as well and I’m already liking what I see. :)
People have complained about the "first come first served" mod problem for years. It's 100% Reddit's MO not to fix something until it's made national news and fixing it is self-serving.
I just deleted my 15-year old account. I was on the fence because it was a part of my life for so long. I thought I’d just hang on to it juuuuussst in case. Today’s news about things made me realize I wasn’t even holding on to anything real. Now piggy can’t make money off of my contributions to Reddit. The last two weeks on here have been more fun than the last 7 years of that place.
New here, too. Glad to be here.
The audacity of him being mad at all the people producing and managing the content on the site for him. Seems they lost sight of that along the way andncan only see the traffic of the consumers of that content lol.
Huge wake-up call when he looks up one day and goes, "why is there no content on reddit anymore!?"
It seems like the absolute most chaotic decision for anyone. Any community where any tension exists will be having constant campaigning for recalls.
The king is instituting one component of democracy because he thinks the peasents will vote his way for one specific issue. But even in the immediate term this will cause more grief than the reddit blackout ever did.
I can think of a few specific communities where there has been significant long term resentments against the mods. Particularly as the mods have enforced rules on the community to avoid being kicked off reddit. I bet within 1 week, all or most of these will have mod recall votes going to remove the mods. If successful the subs will be full of reddit rule breaking straight away. The new mods will not mod.
Its really hard to tell if he just wants the website out of his life or what. Maybe buddy just needs a change personally.
Seems they will allow lower ranking mods request to boot top mods that support being private now. So yeah, hostile take over incoming.
Definitely a tool though.
Look, I am the kind of person who is morally opposed to kicking people in the teeth. But there are some people out there who celebrate the idea of kicking /u/spez in the teeth. I think those people are wrong.
I'm a big booster of the Fediverse, but I had continued to moderate r/Sizz, a community I founded back in 2017. I had been contributing there at least 12x per day, and zealously moderating it. I've always liked Reddit because it let me share stuff I love on my own terms. But now that's changing.
I've long pondered migrating r/Sizz to the Fediverse, and I might have to do that.
DO IT! Fuck Reddit, it's only gotten worse for years
Only 3% of Reddit users use third-party apps. This was such a weird hill to die on and it's not going to make them suddenly profitable. Models of monetization that rely on advertising just don't work. Adding a few thousand users to the list of people who see them isn't going to suddenly make it so.
not sure where the 3% metric is coming from but from what I understand, a big hit to "no 3rd party apps" is moderation tools - it'll make the larger subs more difficult to moderate - and will end up costing reddit $$$$ when the unpaid mods quit over it
It was a combination of the absurd pricing for the third party apps and that the people most affected by this would be not only those with accessibility issues, but the mods who do damn near all the day-to-day operations of the site. Reddit relies on unpaid moderators to keep subs from turning into bot spamming grounds and the official app is more difficult to use for basic functions and doesn't support many of them at all.
So they were essentially giving the finger to their unpaid workforce and then claiming that the complainers were mad about no longer getting everything for free. It's a pretty hefty dose of hypocrisy.
There's scripts and bots that go in and automatically scrub your entire Reddit history, you don't need to do it manually.
Work smart, not hard.
This extremely funny interview is great but this stuck out to me
Tim Rathschmidt, Reddit’s director of consumer and product communications: An angle no one else has been writing about is the desire and frustration with users that want their communities back. Especially being vocal about it. That’s just not something that’s really been covered.
I cannot get enough of executives whining that journalists aren't writing what they want them to write
I hope if they make it so the community can remove moderators, and they also replace the mod teams of the protesting subreddits, that the community will come together and always vote out any mods they put in place.
Removing as it is off-topic. I've cross posted this to !reddit@lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/205168
Reddit's paid workforce is (was) about 700 strong. They just laid off 90 people. There are about 21,000 moderators that are active on a daily basis; each of them moderating subs on topics they're passionate about and are very familiar with. It's gonna be fun to watch the results if every current mod quits and they actually have to provide paid moderation.
Imagine the shocked Pikachu face when they realize they've alienated the best mods and now have to pay for a moderation team.
thanks for using Leebra!
go to feed...
Pretty damn rich coming from the CEO of a website that makes no content of its own.
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