Reddit @lemmy.ml moeka89 @lemm.ee 1 yr. ago

Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best

arstechnica.com Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best

Will Reddit get quality replacements? "Not a snowball's chance in hell."

Technology @lemmy.ml moeka89 @lemm.ee 1 yr. ago

arstechnica.com /gadgets/2023/07/reddit-calls-for-a-few-new-mods-after-axing-polarizing-some-of-its-best/

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Reddit admins had the sweetest gig on the planet. They had users who created and curated all their content for free, moderators who donated their time and effort for free, people who bought "reddit gold" for basically no benefit to themselves. All they had to do was sit on their asses and do nothing. (And make no mistake about it, whether the site was technically profitable or not, spez & co. were raking in more than anyone I'll ever know and living more than comfortably).

But noooo. They had to introduce "features" that users found annoying and off-putting, such as the cringe awards they added in addition to gold, profile, "new reddit," a goddamn personal profile for a userbase that valued anonymity, and ... a fucking chat on fucking reddit are you kidding me what?

And then of course the ultimate fuck you that started in June and has been snowballing ever since.

I think admins got the idea that we liked reddit itself, whereas most people I know actually hated reddit as an entity and only derived value from other users. I'm really kinda thankful that spez opened my eyes to this. If he hadn't been an absolute dickcheese, I'd probably still be miserably scrolling through that hellscape, whereas now we're here.

And guess what? I don't even miss reddit. The only regret I have is sharing so much content there and not leaving sooner.
- I'm still trying to wrap my head around them having 2000 employees. Makes absolutely no sense.
  
  The way to make big money for the past 20 years hasn't been to sell better mousetraps. It's been to attract venture capital. Your revenue didn't matter as much as your size, and your size was determined by your employees and how much you spend.
  
  It's why Uber, whose business model is entirely skimming off of taxi drivers who provided their own cars, wasn't profitable..
  
  With the interest rate hikes, the investment money is drying up, and all these places are discovering they actually need to make money from their users now, and all that bloat is now a negative instead of a positive.
  
  Basically we're all paying the price for the stupid fucking investment bubble that's existed for two decades. An investment bubble that existed because nobody was at the wheel driving the direction of this economy until now.
  
  And of course the billionaires don't want to sacrifice shit, so they're making sure it all rolls downhill to their employees and their customers and doesn't touch their profits in the slightest.
- a fucking chat on fucking reddit are you kidding me what?
  
  RIGHT? AND, AND! It's a chat where you can't get rid of the bright flaming red notification until you make the neigh-irreversible decision to either shun a person forever or reply to them.
  
  the only chats i've gotten over the years were spambots
  
  I didn't even know it existed until some fool tried to chat with me, and then my first response was to disable it. Such an annoying thing.
  
  You don't have to reply to make the notification go away. I'm pretty sure you don't even need to interact with the request.
- Also they killed off the only good idea they had in years: Reddit Public Access Network.
  
  Shut it down because a lot of people complained about seeing random DJs and dog enthusiasts in their feed, whom I don't blame cause not everyone is into livestreams. But it was also a great way for anyone to get an audience with little effort, and entirely reddit's fault that they spammed it way too much at people who weren't even subscribed to /r/PAN. For a brief moment it was an amazing time, though.
  
  I wasn't even aware of it beyond seeing some complaints, but then I don't think it's something RiF supported, which was my primary way of accessing reddit
- amen
- Sell Reddit to Elon 🗑️🔥
  
  Elon is the garbage disposal service for bad web sites
- honestly. i’m still stuck to reddit because of the content only, and if i found a suitable alternative for that niche i’d finally be free to leave. i hate reddit- i hate the app, the “features”, the admins, all of that, but i LOVE the content itself
  
  The content has gotten significantly worse.
  
  Maybe we should find an ad agency and crowd source funds to make slick advertisements for Lemmy and Mastodon. I feel like you should promote a specific instance for each though, and avoid the "join-mastodon" page.
  
  The way the instances are split does not generally make much sense for the user. It's extremely arbitrary. We all know why, and that it's not a bad thing altogether, but it's bad for the user experience. That aspect of federation is not something we should promote.
  
  I like to use the Imgur app for browsing content now that I've stopped using reddit. The navigation is different, but it's usually a lot more positive of an experience.
  
  You didn't spend much time on r/all or on the default subs, did you? If so, I'd feel astonished that you would say this.
- Your comment reminding me heavily about the speech Mike gave to Walt in breaking bad near the end haha. Really fits the situation
- such as the cringe awards they added in addition to gold
  
  You mean the literal facebook reacts that cost money?
- Pfft I never got hassled with any PMs on RIF. Oh wait that's probably part of why they got rid of RIF :(
  
  talklittle is from a dying era -- completely unobtrusive ads on the base version of his app, with the ad-free version costing a one-time fee of what? $4? Truly a rare gem.
- New reddit is better than old reddit shit that looks like it’s from 2005, at least for me
  
  "This discussion forum looks like a reputable forum and not like instagram, oh no!"
  
  Yeah, while I understand that there was a loss of customisation and that naturally the existing username tended towards people who likes the older style, I personally absolutely hated it to the point that I just couldn't get into Reddit at all until the update. It also doesn't really seem odd to me for a website to update it's UI once in a while (tbh, I'd be turned off by one that doesn't. Even the best UI today is still relatively speaking from the bronze age of UX design. If the best we have today is the best we can do I'll be sorely disappointed.)
r/gamingnews made a post asking for new mods. There were 3 or 4 posts saying "I have little to no experience but pick me." that were down voted into oblivion. The rest were shit posts calling out the administration, calling the new mods shills, and genteel bring combative and unhelpful.

So that was nice.
As a former mod of multiple active subs, yeah, they can have me back. All they have to do is let RIF work again.
If by "a few" they mean hundreds, then yeah I guess they need a few lol
People should start volunteering then continue the protest as the new mods.
Never really had much to say about the mods until the recent mess. What's left, holy shit. I now look forward to the funeral of the Snoo.

poor bastard didn't deserve the assholes he got left with.
I hope the fediverse succeeds. But it’ll need to do it on its own, not on the back of a dying Reddit.

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