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  • TimTheEnchanter@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I would love to know how many mods are no longer moderating, have reduced their moderating, or have left Reddit altogether after this whole situation.

    I haven’t been on Reddit since the third party apps shut down, so I have no idea what’s going on over there now.

    • TheColonel@reddthat.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I personally resigned from a subreddit I founded and moderated for 11 years. Had nearly 300k subscribers but enough is enough.

      Reddit isn’t like it was when I started using it 17 years ago and it’s not going back.

      Fuck Spez.

    • Chris Remington@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I stopped moderating all of the niche subs (that I created) except for two and have, basically, let the mod team run things. I only dip in to check modmail in case a mod needs me. Otherwise, I don’t use Reddit at all. Beehaw!

    • inasaba@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I moderated two subreddits over 1m users, one over 250k users, and a handful over 10k users.

      Every. single. one. of my team members has left, except for one on one of the tiny subreddits.

      • ijeff@lemdro.id
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        1 year ago

        Some of our most active mods on /r/android left once their apps stopped working. We still keep it up with barebones modding, with a prominent link to !android@lemdro.id. Something I’m noticing is that people who were banned from communities on Reddit for inflammatory remarks, trolling, and spam are carrying over their vitriol to the Fediverse.

  • Arotrios@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The July metrics must have shown them engagement is plummeting, especially content submissions, which have been garbage since the blackout. One look at r/all shows most posts being up for hours and sometimes days at a time - it used to be a matter of minutes. Doubtless this is also reflecting in their traffic metrics as well.

    As someone who contributed there since the pre-Digg days, after discovering the Fediverse, I’m never going back. Reddit arrogantly assumed that there was no other platform mods and contributors could go to that would provide what they do. But when it comes down to it, the Fediverse does what Reddit did, with more features, flexibility, and without the threat of centralized mismanagement. The only thing Reddit had that the Fediverse doesn’t was an audience of millions, but the audience follows the content, and the best place to create content online is right here, right now, right here, right now, right here, right now….

    Welcome to the next evolution of the web, Reddit, and to the realization that you pushed your audience to evolve past their need for you.

      • Arotrios@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Damn that brings back high school memories - thanks! I totally agree it fits as well.

        I went with the Fat Boy Slim vid for the evolution theme and the fact that the guy on the bench at the end was the best analogy that came to mind for Reddit in its current state. Jesus Jones seems to be speaking to how I feel after discovering the Fediverse.

  • Rentlar@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m tired of saying the same things so have a fun analogy for Reddit:

    You have a sandbox, invite people to build sandcastles. So they come and build them and a lot of people are checking your sandbox out.

    Then you stomp on everyone else’s sandcastle so that your overturned pail of sand stands the tallest, and laugh in their faces.

    Now you’re wondering why everyone left and is mad at you?