• Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
    511·
    21 days ago

    Said this elsewhere, but:

    What’s interesting to me here regarding this, is Reddits current preparation timescale for the changes here. This isn’t going to be enforced until March 31st, 2026. This tells me that Reddit would have been unprepared for a complete mass-walkout of community moderators during the 2023 Reddit API strikes. A large chunk of Reddit during that period was genuinely inaccessible. But after a few token gestures and a few examples made of some especially rebellious mod-teams, most of the striking moderators returned.

    A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website. You can’t just hastily promote random people to replace moderators Reddit is either forced to remove or who leave voluntarily. The average person is likely too lazy, too arbitrary and too corrupt to effectively oversee communities of notable sizes.

    People whine about terminally online moderators being power-hungry and garbage, but I can assure you hastily promoted randoms given the keys are far worse in most cases.

    • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zipEnglish
      26·
      21 days ago

      A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website.

      There weren’t really other places to go (most of the Lemmy instances got created around the API announcement), and changes to subreddits would have been reverted

      • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
        13·
        21 days ago

        They could revert them, but they couldn’t replace how they run the communities. That’s the thing. Reddit would’ve had to scramble to find hundreds, thousands of mods potentially who would be good fits for communities.

      • pseudo@jlai.luEnglish
        7·
        20 days ago

        Agree. I came as a curious lurker willing to explore the wild internet and I settled in this new place for its opportunities rather than for its qualities. Would I have been posting regularly OC on Reddit, I would never have considered this place as an opportunity to replace it. Maybe I would have post on both to see where it went but it would have not be a very solid backup plan.

      • ook@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        20 days ago

        Yeah, I remember the time, I had like 2-3 alternatives in my list that I switched between to see what people are posting and how it filled the feed. Personally I decided on staying with Lemmy only months after the event.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      15·
      20 days ago

      It was so disappointing to see mods buckling to the pressure. Like what’re admins going to do, sue you? Ban you? I wouldn’t want to be part of any platform that would behave that way.

      I’d rather leave with a hundred die-hard community members than stay for ten thousands lemmings.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    21 days ago

    I’m shocked Reddit is still running given how much the owner blatantly tries to milk as much money or if it as possible with zero regards for sustainability.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      22·
      21 days ago

      Every time I land there because there’s a product or technology discussion that got surfaced as relevant in my search results, all the comments seem to be from 3 to 5 years ago.

      I know there must be people still posting there currently, but are they even getting indexed?