Main points: He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.
Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.
He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.
popular elections in an ecosystem 1/4 bots, in which the admins hold ultimate unilateral authority.
Spez is such a nice guy, protecting the innocent users from the greedy elites who control the site. /s
1/4 bots, 1/4 advertising, 1/4 Onlyfans “entrepreneurs” and 1/4 users. What could possibly go wrong?
1/4 bots, 1/4 paid advertising, 1/4 Onlyfans “entrepreneurs” and 1/4 users. What could go wrong?
Doesn’t matter what changes he makes I’m never going back to that site that it’s filled with karma farmers, bots and onlyfans spamers
Well this will bring me back to reddit… So I can vote out the mods who want to reopen the sub.
That’s a good reason
When the subreddits went private I visited reddit three times, then a couple of times the next day, then once the following day. I haven’t visited today and honestly I’m not missing it too much. If I get the urge to visit I just come here and it acts as my reddit nicotine patch.
Yeah I’ve been the same, and when I’ve browsed the comments there is so much aggro. Makes me wonder if it’s always been like that and I was just blind to it.
Overall, the experience here is 1000 times better than Reddit
I just wish it wasn’t always the first few results when you look up information on certain topics. Especially for really niche issues since it’s often the only place with answers right now. That’s basically that only time I visit reddit at this point.
You can avoid giving them hits by pasting the url into archive.org sometimes
Removing relay from my home screen has helped a lot. I’ve accidentally gone to old reddit a couple times and didn’t click on any links but most times I catch myself and come here instead.
Yea I had to swap my icons… Easy way to break the habit.
Honestly fuck reddit. I was so tired of it, but there was nowhere else to go. At least I can develope a more healthy relationship with social media here
Reddit was pretty dope when the most popular post of the day had only 2k upvotes. They can keep their millions of users. We only need just enough.
That’s also what kind of makes me curious about Tildes too, slowly growing for them is intentional.
Yea I’m actually glad there’s an exodus of people who care. The ones who don’t, I don’t care about them either.
I was logging into Reddit to delete my posts (Which Chrome removed the Nuke Reddit History extension, thanks I guess) and on the front page was just gross homophobic memes. Yeah, I don’t think I’ll ever going back.
come work for free
No thanks
builds an entire self-hosted instance of an open source, federated social media network…
Chad
Lol this is gonna be awful
He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.
I totally second this idea. The last time we tried to get the internet to seriously decide on something we got Boaty McBoatface.
Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.
Even better. All posts in these subs can be advertisements, perfect.
He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.
Yeah, don’t even spend 3% of revenues as a cost of doing business. The soon-to-be-community-elected mods will do it for free. Super.
The last time we tried to get the internet to seriously decide on something we got Boaty McBoatface.
And lo, the Internet looked down upon it’s handiwork, and verily, t’was awesome.
All posts in these (business) subs can be advertisements, perfect.
And nobody will ever go there. And, two years down the track, u/spaz will hoik up the pricing or cut them off entirely because they’re making money off of a non-profitable Reddit. “We want to work with the business subs but they’re not interested in talking to us and have all thrown their toys out of the pram and shut down”.
While undeniably shitty, how amazing would it be if after instituting popular voting on mods more subreddits voted to go private? Not likely but it is tempting
No way we’re gonna see reddit elections and campaigns this is hilarious
Right? How does he not see that this is a terrible idea.
So you do all that work for nothing just to be able to be voted out? 😂
Yeah, way fewer people will be willing to put in the effort modding if they can just be voted out. And subreddits that are supposed to represent minority opinions will just get voted out by the opposition.
tone deaf much?
Smart move, it will definitely makes me go back to Reddit.
To vote for moderators who don’t want to end the protest.Can we vote for the admins too?
subreddits as businesses
I’ll admit, I didn’t have faith that he could, but he actually came up with a worse idea
I don’t even think it’s an original idea, I’m sure there’s mods in brand subs (video games, for example) who are employees for the company which owns the product. He’s just making it official and I bet he’s gonna ask for a pretty penny for it.
So everyone who left wouldn’t vote and everyone who stayed can end the blackout
I’m not opposed to only going over there on old.reddit to vote the opposite of whats in Reddits best interests. Mods being a problem and you want them removed? Vote to keep them.
lol watch the voting mods out feature not work on old.reddit.
Honestly like, if he makes it so mods can be popularly elected/unelected, well, he’s gonna end up with the other sort of Reddit protestor – the feral shitposters – tearing down every mod on the whole page. I assume he would have to reverse that policy at exactly the moment he gets rid of his … enemies, I guess? – or else ViolentAcrezMAGAEdition is gonna be running r/worldnews with Roger Stone.
It’s the bots that’ll rule.
There’s a shit load of botting services out there you can pay to upvote your agenda. And those services have the revenue generation to pay for the exorbitant API access.
Unless a sub is private… anyone can vote in polls, even if it’s restricted. Reddit may even have it’s own bots jumping in at that point.
I wonder which is a less fair, russian annexation referendums or reddit mod votes.
Is the CEO going to be popularly elected too?
I’ll go back to reddit for a day to vote him off of r/programming
There’s also the long game of voting in the most appalling mods you can find.
Hey. I volunteer to change my reddit profile pic to a picture of me- with my pasty white legs- wearing socks with sandals.
