Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continued to Protest
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I reluctantly had to delete Apollo and just use Lemmy instead for now. It’s growing quickly and a nice change of pace. My main communities are already there with at least a few hundred users each, some over a thousand. For having been on Reddit for 16 years (since Digg), it was surprisingly easy to let go. It helps that their website sucks so hard on mobile because there is then very little risk of “muscle memory” making you hop back in with no app.
Nothing unfortunately. It seems reddit has enough network effects & compliant users/mods that they can do whatever they want and people will tolerate the abuse
It's definitely the most accurate portrayal of what's happening.
Also, users need to learn that they shouldn't depend on the vacillating gratitude of corporate assholes Because while they're decorating their virtual neighborhoods, the Sheriff of Nottingham can come along at any time and impose an arbitrary tax. Nonprofits can sometimes go under or sell-out to corporations. Self-hosted options are best and technical ignorance is an excuse rather than a legitimate reason.
I'm sorry but this is just a delusional tech nerd take.
The extreme majority of users is hurt by the moderators' actions, never cared and will never care about the initial protest, and will welcome those changes.
I am an active Reddit user, and I welcome whole-heartedly the decision to remove those moderators. People like this are destroying important communities for a personal crusade.
Somehow if Reddit were the ones closing subs all the pitchforks would be out, but when it's 3 moderators instead it's totally fine and they're the good guys. Ridiculous.
Reddit needs to convert their model to financially compensate moderators of subreddits based on the revenue ads on that subreddit generate.
In return, moderators need to re-agree to a set of terms that align their incentives towards being impartial and fair towards the users of those subs.
Mods who agree could stand to make good side-hustle money (maybe even full time job money), and Reddit could obtain a method for showing their future shareholders that they're in control of the revenue channel.
Could run this program out of a spreadsheet until the code gets written to automate, and IMO this is important enough to pay the lawyers and accountants to figure out the details.
YouTube does this, Twitch does this... it's absolutely feasible, and everybody wins.
Hell, if you want to be tricky, you could set up some kind of currency market (probably avoid crypto but if ever there was a legit use for it...) that mods get paid in that they then sell to advertisers for space on their respective subreddits where Reddit gets a cut (I assume this resolves some amount of the labor/employment issues, but IANAL), but that's something you do after you put out the fire.
This will never happen. Reddit already makes rules that are not impartial or fair towards users. If they pay the mods the mods will only work to serve reddit (and therefore reddit's advertisers) not users.
As for the users, we could debate all day what's best for them, but the war between mods and Reddit would be over, and that's incredibly good for users.
There is no objective standard of "impartial and fair", but is that even necessary for your proposal? Different people want different moderation standards, but that seems fine.
Turning moderators into content creators (content curators) and connecting them more directly to their advertisers is the general idea.
This applies to anything and everything. Subreddits were great because they could set whatever rules they wanted and you could just leave if you did not like it.
Up until this very recent fiasco, those rules were much more lax.
Uh huh...
Either way, Reddit provides value to users, because user retention is how Reddit makes money. Now, mods are also incentivized to retain users, rather than the current disconnect where a mod is actively disincentivized to retain users, given the additional burden users create for mods.
No, that's absurd. Plenty of people would become moderators for free. Yes, for free. And plenty of them would be better mods than current mods.
Mods provide less value than you think.
Most of the value was essentially being the first to register the name of the subreddit.
These mods think Reddit exists for them. Replace 'em all.