Reddit CEO calls unpaid moderators' concerns "noise" - time to send a message he won't forget.
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👉 https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/13/reddit-ceo-blackouts-no-revenue-impact/👉 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1668346845142339585https://youtu.be/U06...
  • Richie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    And yet mods keep claiming they HAVE to keep their subs open all while banning people who call them out. I’m legitimately being PERMANENTLY banned from sub after sub after sub for simply just reminding mods that they mod for free and they are actively choosing to stand behind Reddit by keeping their subs open. I mean, hey, I guess banning me only gives me more reason to leave Reddit.

    • Faendol@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s definitely showing that most people aren’t willing to be inconvenienced even if it’s to help themselves. I’m not sure a scenario exists where going back to reddit is a good idea. They are going public and that’s not gonna change. Being a public company means they are going to chase the money and if they don’t today they will burn down the platform to make more money later.

      • Richie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Reddit really should be taking notes from Twitter, although in all honesty they probably are, but in ways for how to make money and screw over the people rather than caring for the people. Every day there’s something new being monetized on Twitter. Pretty soon you’ll have to be a Twitter Blue subscriber if you want to DM more than one person. I can already see Reddit going down the same route even just mere months from now.

        • niktemadur@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          but in ways for how to make money

          What money? Twitter is nickel-and-diming everybody like a miser, after the ad renevue crumbled because of the toxic changes in conduct rules for users.

          • Zana@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            They’re getting evicted from all of their offices because they aren’t paying rent, starting with the one in Colorado.

  • pinwurm@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Great video, always a fan of Rossman (even if there’s a few times where I disagree with him).

    Blackout absolutely needs to be indefinite and I’m glad to see massive communities like r/funny, r/aww, r/science, r/music still going strong with r/gaming and r/pics set to private.

    We have about two weeks until the 3rd Party App kill date. Meanwhile, numbers in Lemmy have been booming, indie developers are actively working on apps - all great news.

    Personally, I’m not quite ready to delete my Reddit Account and leave some of the niche communities I grew to love. I suspect that after the blackouts, I’ll be using both Lemmy & my old.reddit (with adblock) until there’s enough migration of users.

    • Faendol@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Louis Rossman is awesome, he has been fighting for right to repair for years now and runs a computer repair shop. He’s shifted in recent years to championing right to repair around the US.