• NewEnglandRedshirt@lemmy.world
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    History teacher here. I find it incredibly ironic that a guy whose entire livelihood depends on unpaid workers to generate profits for him while he sits on his porch drinking sweet tea comfortable desk chair describes those workers as the “landed gentry.”

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    He is trying to divide users by claiming that a nebulous group is controlling the rest against their will. Classic protest mitigation tactic

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      Indeed; same “divide and conquer” tactics that politicians often use to retain power.

  • penguin_ex_machina@lemmy.world
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    If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said.

    Someone get this man a hearing aid, because he’s gone completely tone deaf.

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    Maybe if they introduced this in good faith months ago people would think it’s a good idea. They reason now is just power hungry admins trying to get their way. Fuck this guy so much.

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      I’m curious as to how much money Reddit are spending on their attempts to change the narrative with articles like this.

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          This is the thing that gets me. I’m fine if Reddit wants to diversify revenue, or ask developers to pay a fair share. But the callous disregard for developers, users, moderators, and communities they built is beyond the pale. I don’t know how someone can look at the timeline of events and how Reddit has handled this and think, “this is a company that deserves my money”. Huffman’s comments in the press alone, leaked or not, make him look like a giant d*uche canoe. The moment my saved posts are transferred out I’m gone.

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      I agree because this is actually quite nice to have the ability to vote out power tripping moderators. But they’re only introducing it now because they’re getting desperate. What a waste. This CEO is an idiot.

      Well it’s not like I’m going back anyway since I got perma banned 2 days ago and nuked my account.

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      Honestly, the core point made originally, and that he stated again in this article, makes perfect sense to me: it costs money to run Reddit, which they pay for with ads, and the third party apps make the content available without ads or with ads that go to the app developers. It’s completely reasonable that Reddit would want to get paid for people using their content.

      But the way they rolled it out, the slandering of one of the developers, the ridiculously short time for it, the removal of NSFW content, and especially the draconian prices are just unacceptable.

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    Oh, they are gonna remove admins by having their own sub vote them out “democratically”. I guess thats better PR than doing it themselves? Sounds like a feature that could easily be misused too, if they do it wrong.

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    With bigger subs, this strategy may actually work. A lot of Redditors just want to scroll, and they want their content. They don’t care how it gets there.

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      Yeah I’m seeing that a lot. Floods of comments about how dumb the blackout was and that they just want to browse Reddit. I know r/SquaredCircle pledged to go dark indefinitely and there was a lot of outrage about it. I’ll be very interested to see if it comes back as that was a sizeable subreddit

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        I’ve read that, at times in the past, Reddit has used bots or plants in comment threads to stear the conversation. It makes me wonder if any of that is happening now. I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist, but at this point I have very little trust in the Reddit staff.

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    What I’m suggesting as a pathway out is actually more democracy,”

    This sounds like the same nonsense as Elon. All we’ll end up seeing is targeted mobs of Reddit sycophants and randos who don’t actually understand the stakes participating in bogus polls to make it appear like Reddit has a handle on the pulse of the community. Then Reddit can claim to be “fair” and “neutral” and…it’s just absurd.

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    So these votes are going to be done by the people who haven’t left reddit in protest and if those of us who have left in protest come back to vote in the polls, reddit will claim that outsiders are brigading the votes so the sub will be reopened. There is no situation where a community vote to remain closed will be respected by the site owners.

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    Huffman said, however, that he’d like 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.”

    Reddit is only going to get worse. I’m glad I jumped ship when I did.

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      It’s really a shame that everything good and valuable in the world has to be boiled down to a fucking dollar sign…

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      Another prediction;

      Moderator slots will be up for sale at some point as businesses buy them and start pushing their products/services more aggressively.

      “normal” moderators who agree will get a small % of the profits.

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    That he’s becoming increasingly more catty and loose with the truth by the day speaks to the protest’s effectiveness. Aside from the dropping engagement numbers, the daily deluge of negative press from major media outlets isn’t doing their valuation any favors, and as the person responsible for this decision, he’s feeling the heat more than anyone.

    Also, if they weren’t having any effect, he’d simply maintain the previous party line from before the protests about how the community is free to express itself and protest in any way it sees fit.

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    Let’s be honest.

    A lot of us left because we saw the writing on the wall, even if we were a bit ambiguous on the exact details.

    Enshittification to the max and as fast as possible.

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      Reddit user of over 10 years: I’m done. Let’s say they reverse course; it’s clear what they want to do and where they want to take the platform.

      Enshittification has begun. It can’t be stopped, it’s self sustaining now.

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      Yep. It’s not that Reddit is unusable in the official app, it’s that it’s a sign of more shit to come. I don’t use other social media for a reason, Reddit doesn’t have the command over my life that they think they do.

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        I’ve used Relay for over a decade. That app is reddit to me. I however do find the official app unusable.

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          I used rif. I can’t stand the official app. I get that reddit has to make money to survive, like any company, but in the process of chasing that profit you chase away a good chunk of your site you’re not gonna be profitable. Also I can’t stand the way Spez is saying we’re a community while trying to dictate changes the community absolutely hates and then attacking those leaving.

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        Reddit in particular has very little besides it’s massive numbers to actually keep users on their platform. I don’t use Twitter or Facebook anymore, but at least with those platforms there would be specific celebrity accounts or friends and family that would provide a reason to stay.

        Because reddit was so focused on anonymity, you didn’t need the “celebrity” accounts to move platforms to make the alternatives feel viable. Even with just a small portion of users moving here it feels completely natural.

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        The official Reddit app is unusable. Anyone who says otherwise is brainwaished into believing their phone showing an ad every 5 seconds is normal.

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    He’s about two sentences away from saying the quiet part out loud. If he sees the mods as landed gentry how does he see the average redditor? the average admin team member? The average spez?

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    It would be interesting to see what happens if some of the 3rd-party devs that are being screwed over by spez make some lemmy/kbin apps that are superior to the reddit app.