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Reddit Gives Final Warning to Subreddits Using NSFW Protest Tactic

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At this point it seems like any victory will be phyrric. I feel like the leadership fails to realise that the value is the community and they are doing everything to alienate it. I mean they could gain control of MySpace if they wanted, but if no one goes there anymore what's the gain?

I mean each of them could pivot towards more NSFW content, r/Military really lends itself to NSFL even.

The writing has been on the wall for years where they have prioritized features nobody wanted over features mods and regular users have requested for a long time.

The other damaging thing is they have demonstrated any written policy is irrelevant and they can change the rules at any time. While they have every right to do so as the owners of the platform, it violates the social contract between the admins and users. I’d certainly not want to provide free labor for a company that doesn’t appreciate that labor and changes the rules surrounding my work on the fly, even if it’s a labor of love for a community I enjoy.

Yep.

That's why I'd dialed back my own usage and refrained from posting new content to my own subs years ago. It was was made painfully clear, razors-to-eyballs, that Reddit-corporate's direction and my own interests had little if any intersection, and that that set was decreasing over time.

That said, events of this past May and onwards have finally prompted me to take those subs private.

Providing free labor for any specific company is a bad idea unless you earn something of equivalent value to the money you'd have otherwise made in return; I think people have an inflated sense of the derived value they get from moderation or using any given platform. Open source has the potential to be that as well, only usually offering a tenuous value proposition for the people working on it, but a very obvious value proposition for the companies using it.

Great quote from the tail end:

> “While we're obviously aware that Reddit is a for-profit company, the recent weeks have made it very clear that Reddit is not a website that allows people to host communities for its members, but rather a company that allows people to maintain communities for them and for their profit," a r/JustNoMil moderator wrote.

The idea of these people expecting for profit companies to not be ruthlessly profit driven is hilarious.

Spez even said this - they're very profit hungry because they're not profitable.

Remember those cool projects that Google did at their height? That's what profitability looks like. Reddit is hungry and has been for a long time.

yeah, it's a ridiculous idea that a company that has repeatedly stated in the past that its focus is on the community and 3rd-party app outreach would renege on its mission to foster and support the communities that made it a place with any value whatsoever.

ridiculous

People talking about how the snake oil salesman was so convincing and believable is still hilarious.

Treating your users well can be very good for long-term profits. The problem is that Reddit is looking to squeeze them short term for a good IPO.

It seems like the moderators turned out to be much more expendable than they thought so they fell in line to be able to cling on to their powers, rather than be replaced.

A lot have left. /r/InterestingAsFuck has millions of members and zero moderators at this time.

I think they are intentionally trying to change what communities are on Reddit. It was a throw away quote at the tail end of one of the many stores during the protest but it has given me pause as to whether I want to participate on reddit going forward:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/reddit-ceo-slams-pro...

"Huffman said, though, that he’d like to see some form of revenue-sharing.

“I would like subreddits to be able to be businesses if they choose,” he said, adding that’s “another conversation, but I think that’s the next frontier of Reddit.”

What a joke. What kind of business would set up shop on a platform where it has been shown the floor could be swept out underneath them with minimal notice? Certainly not one I'd want to run or rely on.

I notice that programming.reddit.com is open again.

But ... there is no explanation on the subreddit.

Anyone knows anything?

There is a noteworthy administrator on programming.reddit.com btw.

https://lemmy.world/post/1194010

Revenue trumps community.

Nobody wants to pay. Certainly not the community.

wasn’t the t reddit gold a successful way to cover server costs? at least before they added hundred of employees doing who knows what

It was, the whole idea of it not being profitable is garbage. They just horribly mismanaged everything, they had to have borrowed too much money from the wrong people or something. People would throw money at reddit and if reddit came out and said they needed to raise prices on gold again people would still pay.

Ive only bought maybe three apps ever and i would have paid to keep reddit how it was pre new reddit without ads or suggested subs. Thats why i paid for Apollo.

Yes, reddit used to be mildly profitable. Before they added a billion shitty features and video hosting.

Easily circumvented by posting old National Geographic-like photos of really primitive natives.

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