“It’s time we grow up,” says former moderator of jailbait subreddit.

    • atxlvr@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      really went off the rails there lol. I could tell when you mentioned Snowden/Assange.

      • iie@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        you don’t think it’s nuts for snowden critics to mod privacy subreddits when snowden is the guy behind the main leak that showed how fucked our privacy is?

  • BlackCoffee@kbin.social
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    3 years ago

    “But I think the greater Reddit community just want to participate with their fellow community members.”

    One way to find out right.

    • zekiz@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      It’s one of the most visited websites and I don’t see that changing when 2% is leaving the platform

  • Scout339@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Yyyeeeaaaahhh I think the world needs more open source and decentralized/selfhostable websites anyways. The Fediverse is the future simply because the internet needs to go back to being ran by the people, not megacorps.

    • Druidgrove@lemmy.world
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      3 years ago

      I think this is exactly why. It’s to make sure that Reddit is “shored up” from any profits leaking out, and making sure that NSFW content is locked down so that investors actually invest.

      It sucks because it’s our posts, our comments, our information that makes Reddit what it is. This is simply preparation for advertising and other for-profit opportunities. Greedy.

    • Thales@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 years ago

      As CEO, I always like to go online and tell the whole world “we’re not profitable” right before my IPO. Big brain stuff, ya know.

      • taylus@lemmy.mlBannedEnglish
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        3 years ago

        I also like to get caught lying about business calls, really helps the reputation

  • toodazed@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    At this point this seems intentional. This has definitely pushed me away from Reddit and I’m already seeing a lot more meaningful conversations on Lemmy. All I ever saw on Reddit anyways is people just trying to one up each other on the comment threads for upvotes. Took a lot of scrolling to even get to people actually talking about the topic.

    • xevizero@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      people just trying to one up each other on the comment threads for upvotes.

      Here, have an upvote on me =D

    • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      Agree it’s intentional. Normies don’t care about any of this and will just follow the memes. Most of us here are the users that had ad blockers and probably didn’t care about giving gold.

      • Levii@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        Giving and receiving gold was surprisingly, one of my least favourite things. Someone gave me gold once and i felt beholden to say thank you? I didnt ask for it, i didnt comment in hopes of getting given “gold”. I never gave anyone else gold. Why would i give a shit about getting it myself? Its a fucking forum.

        • Puls3@lemmy.ml
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          3 years ago

          Reactions are common in lots of forums though, gold is just a special reaction.
          A special upvote if you will, its not really that deep.

    • Fredselfish @lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      Ramen, exactly 💯 this. Every time I wanted to see what commentary was on the post I would almost have to scroll to the bottom to get any talk about the actual post.

  • Pavidus@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    Sentence 1: Really, only 3 percent of users are pissed about this; It’s insignificant.

    Sentence 2: These disruptions from 3rd party app supporters really hurt our bottom line. This is expensive!

    • jwu@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      The fact that he was a mod on jailbait is kind of a distraction. It’s funny in concept, but at the time, mods could just add anyone else as a mod instead of sending an invite to be a mod. So anyone could be assigned as a mod for an embarrassing subreddit.

      There’s some problematic power tripping mods and those incidents are the most visible, but probably >99% of mod actions are essentially unnoticed and just keeping subreddits relatively organized. And people were doing that for free. If reddit isn’t profitable, then pissing off moderators that were doing work for free does not seem like a good approach.

      I doubt he was targeting moderators directly, but that’s what ended up happening in part.

      Using the percentage of mods that use 3rd party apps is disingenuous (if that stat is even correct). There’s probably tons of mods on low volume subreddits that don’t need to do much and thus don’t use the mod tools on 3rd party apps. But I bet the percent of mod actions that come through the API vs native is very different than counting it by mod that use the API vs native. As in, a small percentage of mods on big subreddits are probably doing a lot of moderation and they are probably using 3rd party apps at least part of the time.

      • Serinus@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        It’s almost like they’ve been deceptive about everything they’ve said. That’s the reason they’re so pissed at the Apollo creator. His recording of the call really showed that they were full of shit when they tried to pull a fast one on him.

  • twack@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    1. Fine, let the people who apparently have no concept of foresight turn Reddit into a cesspool.

    2. This is clearly about cashing in on machine learning at the expense of your users. Maybe you should self reflect a bit before your entire website is produced and consumed entirely by machine learning.

  • qprimed@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    it’s expensive to run a company

    well, congratulations - its your lucky day, steve! lemmy is here to relieve you of that onerous obligation. now don’t let the door hit you on the way out.