I’ve been the main moderator of the same community since 2016. This evening, i approved my last comment.
I’m leaving for two reasons:
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Reddit went public a week ago. I didn’t volunteer to work for a publicly traded company, i volunteered to work for a community. As long as i live under capitalism i accept that my labor will generate value for shareholders, but damned if i ever do it for free. (this is not a Faulkner quote)
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April 1st is coming and i’m scared they might do another r/place. Doing in r/place 2022 and 2023 has left me dejected and bitter and i don’t want to feel obligated to participate again.
Leaving felt like ripping myself off of something warm i’ve been comfortably glued to for a long time. Still recommend it for anyone still giving Reddit shareholders free labor
EDIT: there are too many comments to respond to, but i’ve appreciated all of them! Thank you
but it’s not gonna be spez or other reddit execs, the ones who are responsible for api changes but your average joe who just uses reddit to find answers to niche questions? anyways, idt you are gonna understand so it’s useless to continue anyways. do what you want brotha. i doubt anyone will be affected by your informative comments being edited anyways.
And we are back to square one, and the protest that doesn’t inconvenience anyone. It’s you who doesn’t understand. Reddit doesn’t deserve being the site to go to for “niche info” and “troubleshooting”. You know jack shit about me, yet you say “nobody is going to need them” without knowing what I do. Newsflash, robotics, CNCs, programming and a lot of shit you probably couldn’t grasp.
then you prolly know how hard is to find some niche fixes that’s not on stack overflow, their own forums, not even on some random chinese forums where you need to translate everything to understand it but unfortunately in some random archived post on reddit.
listen i am not pro reddit, if i was I won’t be here. i could bring out other valid arguments but considering you are so adamant on things without trying to see on another perspective I can’t continue this. It would have been even better if you did understand and tried to counter argument but even after multiple comments, you didn’t. can’t waste anymore energy.
if it doesn’t try creating another place, not destroying the current one. create and moderate communities on lemmy that you are good at. make it grow, grow it big so people end up asking questions here instead of reddit so lemmy will slowly but surely become a place where people will find their answers for niche shit. that’s the ideal way.
because all we wanted was to send message instead of trying to just destroy what people built?
we think alike but one is extremist and another one is pacifist.