Will Reddit get quality replacements? "Not a snowball's chance in hell."
  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s quite rich, after the way they treated their mods.

    Really a sign of them not giving a shit about anyone.

    • ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pubEnglish
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      1 year ago

      No good person would put up with being a mod for reddit after this shit show with spez. The only incentive to put up with that is the financial gains of allowing astroturfing as a mod (for example) or having a really weird power trip. Very curious to see how reddit will evolve with that kind of leadership

      • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’m still technically a mod for a small subreddit. I polled the users, they weren’t interested in moving over to Lemmy.

        (Edit because prematurely posted)

        I’m still hoping they’ll move over, but tbh it’s a good bunch of posters on a niche subject and the mod team has never had to be too active. The topic had a been literally unmodded for years before the current mod team fell into it, so I’m confident we’re not needed.

        We’re literally just a placeholder to keep someone power mad from becoming mod. (Long story long: founding mod abandoned sub, came back after years, was mad the subreddit didn’t agree with his crap opinions, made the sub private, I and a few other posters made a new subreddit.)

          • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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            1 year ago

            The problem is that there just isn’t an alternative for some communities (yet). For some things there’s ONE space to talk about it and/or a nice little helpful community.

            IMO it’s up to each person how they want to move forwards, and staying on in a limited capacity is a fair compromise. Another advantage being the community can later be redirected when users are ready.

    • Haha@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They care about revenue. They made it clear during protest. “Well our revenue isn’t really impacted so whatever on we go!!”

      But it was and they’re showing their true faces.

  • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hello, Thank for sharing! Seems like it already got posted to !reddit@lemmy.world, maybe we can keep the Reddit discussions over there? There isn’t that much technology discussed on Reddit nowadays, it’s mostly a sinking ship by now.

  • Lemmylaugh@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Any luck getting the ask historian mods to switch over to lemmy. That I think would tip the scale permanently

    • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Wild. I don’t find extremely moderated subs to be an example of what I want to see here. I felt just as bad going to subs like that as I did going to subs where the mods don’t do anything to control the users. IMO, (and I realize it’s very much MY OWN opinion), is that discussion shouldn’t ever be purged unless it’s illegal or hate speech.

  • BrightCandle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s precisely what everyone said would happen. Spez and the Reddit team seem not to realise how important mods and users were to their business! The number of people who will do the thankless task of dealing with the internet’s undercurrent of horrendous behaviour are few.

    • 4ce@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s precisely what everyone said would happen.

      I don’t disagree with your general point, but I remember that there were many people (on reddit, but also on lemmy) who said there would be lots of power-hungry redditors just waiting to take over and that the admins would thus have no trouble at all finding replacements.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Holy hell this thread is full of boot slobber. What the fuck is so good to you guys about having a mod over your shoulder ever second making sure you don’t step out of whatever line they decided to draw in their imaginary sand?