Reddit's CEO keeps making inapt, inept, and ignorant analogies to describe its users -- especially the moderators, volunteers who have spent countless hours making the site's communities so valuable.
Here's an accurate analogy: Reddit regards these people as replaceable cogs in a machine owned and absolutely controlled by the company.
I won't use Reddit again unless the top management, and its attitudes, are replaced -- with a genuine community focus.
Meanwhile, I'm finding alternatives.
@dangillmor as people move from yet another Island paradise turned slave camp, bear in mind that..
The fediverse (#Mastodon, #Kbin etc) is the lifeboat, #p2p will be the shore.
@markhughes @dangillmor Wow, that’s an offensive analogy, considering there are still plenty of real slave camps, and people dying right now in ships as they try to escape.
I get the reddit thing is horrible, but can you please keep a sense of perspective in your language?
@anathema_device @dangillmor no. you can mute/block me rather than try to tell me what I can post and can't.
BTW I don't mind you telling me you were offended.
@markhughes @dangillmor No, how it works is - you post something harmful or offensive in public, and other people who find it harmful or offensive tell you, in the hope you will stop hurting people who aren’t in a position to tell you about the harm you are doing.
I don’t care if you mind or not. The language you are using is belittling real human suffering and an ongoing desperate crisis for people fleeing trauma, war, and suppression. Reddit failing isn’t that
Dan Gillmor
Mark Hughes
Anathema Device