> Reddit were threatening to de-private the subs and replace the mods.
Is there a link to this? That's crazy!
Is there a link to this? That's crazy!
If I were spez I would simply disable the ability to make new subreddits private.
This protest is not for the greater good, it's harming half a billion users for the benefit (actually, for no benefit since nothing will come out of it) of the 3% that want to not see ads and use the 3rd party apps.
It's not because a few terminally online Reddit addicts are vocally posing as the resistance that the majority of the community supports it.
Without comments, HN would be just a boring link aggregator and we'd get very little information if the article was BS or not. But because we have comments we get gems at times where 'the creator of X' discusses the merits of the article. That can be nearly priceless. Things like this draw people that don't upvote and don't comment, but they still get immense value from it.
Posts are what makes Reddit, so much so that Reddit created hundreds of fraudulent profiles in their early days to fake popularity.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...
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Of course this interests me what the future looks like for social media. At one time in the past you needed users to generate and post content. Could we end up with social media sites with 'good enough' bots faking humans that draw in the masses, but few biological commenters and posters would exist?
If Reddit does a mass replacement of mods, the illusion is broken. You're not running your own forum, you're doing free work for some website. So if you want to create a place to discuss X, then you dont think to make a subreddit for X, you go with something you actually control or far more likely just somewhere the illusion hasn't been broken; like create a discord server.
That illusion is what has made Reddit basically the forum. It's the whole value of the site. Destroying the thing that makes your site valuable is crazy.
Reddit's value proposition is not the ego stroking of the 0.0000001% that are moderators, it's the discoverability and interoperability between unrelated niches.
If little dictators don't get their kick from rulling lawlessly on a community anymore, I say good ridance.
What does this have to do with what I wrote?
>the discoverability and interoperability between unrelated niches.
Why are those niches on Reddit if Reddit isn't giving away faux forums?
>If little dictators don't get their kick from rulling lawlessly on a community anymore, I say good ridance.
Odd because I get the impression you prefer the communities those little dictators create to be on a google crawlable site over discord.
> What does this have to do with what I wrote?
You are suggesting that those users will go away from Reddit to form separate dedicated communities, and I am saying that they will try but fail to attract people.
Reddit allows the vast majority of the subs that participate in the blackout to survive simply because they are a part of Reddit and benefit from its infrastructure and features.
You really think a website dedicated to cute animals will attract 34M subscribers like /r/aww? And another one with the exact same theme will attract 4M subscribers (with a lot of overlap) like /r/Eyebleach?
Those communities exist and strive because the barrier to entry is literally non-existent. It takes one input to create them and one click to join them.
> Odd because I get the impression you prefer the communities those little dictators create to be on a google crawlable site over discord.
I would prefer if there were no little dictators, with elections every 3 months, showing detailed stats of the moderators actions, and most of the moderation to be in the style of StackOverflow, so community driven.
Sad.
This whole thing about third-party apps has been ridiculously mismanaged by the communities.
The only 2 reasons people want to keep third-party apps are 1) they prefer them to the official one, 2) they don't want ads. Both of those reasons are valid, but neither are even remotely close to justifying the actions that those Reddit nerds are taking.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
I get not being sympathetic with petty kings of message boards, but let’s be real, Reddit is an awful company whose incompetence is legendary. They’ve failed to monetize, failed to maintain the user experience and now are failing to keep a vital aspect of their business going.
Ultimately their failure is a good thing. Reddit broke the internet by ending the phpbb era. Time for the next thing.
The notorious Digg collapse was in part because of their fight with a big poster who was dominating the rankings and in the process supplying a lot of the content. They won against him, and the rest is history. Similar with Vine.