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"Despite these concessions, dozens of Redditors promised to stop using the site altogether "
There are dozens of us!! Lol
Fucking delusional on this writer’s part. It was far more than dozens and a lot of those people were power users with an outsized influence on the community.
I personally moderated two 150-250k user subs. Stepped down from both and wiped all my posts and comments and have not contributed a single thing since.
I modded a couple of million user subs, and ended up replacing all of my posts with the same text before never logging in again. Wonder if I’ve been removed from any of them yet.
Side note, my life has improved so much after not doing free work for reddit. The things I’d see everyday… looking back I’d never do it again.
I learned the “Don’t be a mod for free” lesson back in the IRC days. It’s not worth the mental strain, even if it’s for a community you love.
Smart man, I will hate you less in the future for being a fucking mod.
I wish that was true for askhistorians. For some reason, there’s a lot of people with a huge amount of knowledge and potential that are attached at the hip to corporate platforms.
I mean they are historians sticking archaic sites is there thing /joking
I tried to wipe my comments but I during the protest I couldn’t access my user page, I could manually navigate to each of my comments via the posts but that would have been an impossible task. Soon after submitting a service ticket I was permabanned for a comment I’d made 2 years earlier… and even more bizarrely they message me a few weeks later saying they’d taken action against an account I’d reported for CP 4 years ago
i think most reluctantly have some use for it still. i only use it for gamethreads and the shittiest of shitposts, or for super niche things that don’t have any equivalent on lemmy. at the end of the day, i think people would rather stay connected with their communities than abandon them, even if it means providing value for some of the stupidest and most malignant people in the world at the same time. look how many people are still using twitter
even if it means providing value for some of the stupidest and most malignant people in the world at the same time
This is so emblematic of the human condition. Poisoning ourselves to relieve stress, buying slave-made clothes to stay warm. Burning our skin to attract mates. Toxifying our own environment for convenience. Humans really are some dumb ass creatures. We are reaping what we sow.
Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve logged into Reddit since I started using Lenmy
I haven’t really either. Apart from the the odd Google search results here and there, but not actually logging in.
I did a couple of weeks ago, after being off it for a couple of months…it was awful. I closed my account and deleted my saved login info. I only go to it now if it comes up in a search and seems relevant.
That link linked to /modcoord at perhaps dozens of moderators promised to leave, which is far more impactful than users. I know just from watching kbin, lemmy and other sites grow from this summer on that hundreds to thousands likely left reddit. Unfortunately it’s probably a drop in the bucket but Web 2.0 was always probably going to win. The only real way I can see of us getting out of that en masse if when each site inevitably kills themselves through mismanagement.
I was a moderator of a minor misspelt subreddit. I marked it private when I left. That’ll annoy about 700 - 2000 people. I haven’t deleted my account, and I do visit every couple of months for a community that hasn’t moved which I like (though it has gone downhill)
no need to exaggerate 😬
I didn’t see you at the convention in Munich last summer.
I’m doing my part. 🫡
“Technical tweaks”? Did the author write this while sucking huffman’s taint?
Did you see spez’s senior prom picture in the article?
Very certainly
The only thing that’s changed is all the good modetators have left and the default subs have gotten worse.
God forbid you say anything mildly positive of Palestine on the main politics site. The AIPAC hired mods immediately permaban you.
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In response to such critiques, Reddit spokesperson Rathschmidt said he did not “know of an industry benchmark for scoring content quality”.
(Emphasis mine)
This is the same tone deaf response I’ve come to expect from Reddit for some time now, and is why I’m happy to no longer be a user of their platform.
I am of the belief that reddit just replaced leaving users with LLM drone users to fill the void.
The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now
The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now
Yes. Affirmative.
The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now
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The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now
Tom Cruise.
The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now
The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now.
reposting the worst quote i heard all year - or perhaps all my life
“There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or AA, or never at all … But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
fuck spez, fuck reddit
“We don’t want other AI to train on this data, only one we’re involved with.”
Honestly, Fuck Steve Huffman.
I’m excited to see where Lemmy, Mastodon and the Fediverse go as I believe that’s what Aaron Swartz wanted Reddit to be when it merged with Infogami; a user curated platform about anything, and a great source of knowledge.
How corporate social media’s biggest user protest, and exodus, rocked reddit, acccording to corporate media - FTFY
Haven’t been on there since the event, though I do read some threads if they come up in a search. Not intending on returning, though I haven’t gotten rid of my old account yet
dugg their grave
So many comments/posts look like bots.
Reddit always had a “repost” problem. But this time, not only am I feeling like I already saw this post, but also all the top comments? Just regurgitation of posts from years ago.
Its karma farm, they wait to repost a popular post, then post the most popular comments from the old one verbatim. Its gotten really bad
Reddit’s repost problem was brain doners posting rEPOsT!!!1!! on every fucking thread like everyone else was able to no life the internet as hard as them.
How many times did you see something new to you only for the comments section to be a shitstorm of people harassing op for not posting OC like reddit wasn’t a fucking news aggregator designed specifically to repost crap.
Hey have i got a video of a tractor stopping a prairie fire for you!
I’m surprised they didn’t mention us at all. I wonder how many people actually made the transition as a result. I think it’s fewer than many people here want to believe but surely it’s more than dozens?
A few tens of thousand of people. We can see that through the statistics of active monthly users since then. I think many just left Reddit though, but unfortunately not enough. But still, if I look at the content and comments through RedReader it feels all kinda different there. Even more reposts than before, much more bot comments than before, much less comments overall and /r/all just looks different because many previously big subs are not really there anymore, while a lot of more niche subs suddenly appear frequently. It sometimes also feels more toxic with al lthe disinfo and insults but that might just be because a lot of the moderate people left. So the lack of sane comments puts an extra highlight on the shit stains of Reddit.
Left reddit recently bc of the toxicity, massive noticeable uptick across most subs. Blatant racism, homophobia and hate in general with next to zero moderation. The ads were just cancer(without a blocker) with the sponsored “he gets us” ones being unblockable and funded by a christian hate group prominently showing up constantly. Kbin has been an alright replacement minus the server issues recently
[Huffman said,] “We respect when you and your communities take action to highlight the things you need, including, at times, going private.”
Really? 'Cause that’s not the impression I’ve been getting. :scepticalThor:
Agreed. It didn’t feel respectful when they started replacing mod teams that refused to reopen.
Down with Reddit!
Whatever. Don’t care. I left my account open but scrubbed twelve years of content, including hundreds (probably thousands) of answers to technical questions and dozens of posts (including guides) to which my reddit post was the only or one of the only search results.
If corporations want to profit from my knowledge, they can do so by exploiting the open source community, just like always.
