Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best
Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best
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Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best
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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.
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As a former mod of multiple active subs, yeah, they can have me back. All they have to do is let RIF work again.
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If by "a few" they mean hundreds, then yeah I guess they need a few lol
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People should start volunteering then continue the protest as the new mods.
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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.
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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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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.
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
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.
Sell Reddit to Elon 🗑️🔥
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.
Your comment reminding me heavily about the speech Mike gave to Walt in breaking bad near the end haha. Really fits the situation
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 :(
New reddit is better than old reddit shit that looks like it’s from 2005, at least for me
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.)