I don’t think that the people who provide the content and the people who moderate the content are wrong in thinking that they should be accorded some respect by a site that would be worthless without that content.

What does the green tick next to your name mean?

I've already moved on from Reddit. I've deleted all of my content and unsubbed from about half of everything I cared about. My feed is completely pruned and even then only about a quarter of it is OC not posted by bots or click bait titles.

Plex just recently reopened it's sub for another vote to reopen or go restricted and the amount of support to stay open is sickening. Everyone left has become so dependant on the platform that they can't see leaving it, which is exactly what Reddit was hoping for with this.

Sounds like the kind of thing you’d say with the expectation, and I dare say, hope that it would be leaked.

"The Chinese that bought our company demand we track everything. They gave us until July first to close down 3rd party apps or they pull our funding and reddit is dead. " Probably what is going on.

Because they don't want it to be true.

They just need time to go through the stages of mourning.

Mod of /r/homeimprovement here. I don't know that "keep" is the right word but we have built an amazing community over the years. The API changes rubbed us all the wrong way (as we all mod from third-party apps) but what really clinched it was the utter abhorrent treatment of us after we shut down. We are still shut down, and reddit continues to actively threaten UNPAID VOLUNTEERS. The free content and moderation is literally the only thing keeping reddit relevant. We are actively going to force reddit to replace us or backtrack. It will likely be the former, but at least we have made them work for it. It's sad really...I love the community but I'm not going to continue to be free labor for a company that simply doesn't give a single shit about us or their users.

I mean Spez was ghost editing comments at one point and is trying to blackmail the creator of Apollo. He’s not a person of good character.

Honestly it's too late to turn back.

The apps have already announced they are shutting down. Any attempt now to reverse course and beg the app developers to not leave would be making them return with a Damocles sword constantly hanging over their head.

Reddit showed their hand already, and it's just all Wild Draw 4s. They are here to ruin everyone's day and they cannot be trusted.

undefined> Reddit is a cesspool.

I totally agree with you. In my case, I did not realize how much of a cesspool it was. I just got used to sifting through trash. I started using this platform and it has more interesting content. It has less content, but I think that's OK. Sometimes less is more. I don't feel like I'm scrolling endlessly through posts that are either lazy, superficial, or just not worth reading. Over here I've decided to avoid communities that look like they are migrations from subreddits because, low and behold, one of them had the same low-quality content with the same users posting the same kind of crap. For me, Lemmy is refreshing.

I made a script that changes all my old comments to gibberish, but I haven't used it yet. I can't decide if it's a good idea or not. I'm not saying that my old comments are extremely useful, but I wouldn't want to prevent people from reading or having context or any help I've given.

those people only cared about their position

probably not. This ain't Star Trek, we don't know how to disintegrate a community, beam it down, and reintegrate it in the same shape in a different place.

the fall of Reddit implies the demise of many communities that called it home.
maybe it's fine in the long run, new communities form elsewhere and some of the people in the former end up in the latter, but it the short to mid term, it's traumatic for anybody that was emotionally invested.

I see those open letters as last ditch attempts to preserve a status-quo where maybe people can pretend a little longer that everything's okay.

in the end, everybody's gonna grieve this differently. I don't think it makes them bad people.

• Stopping modding: Cool, scabs will take your place
• GDPR: Reddit don't care. They'll refuse and then restore all your deleted content
• Stop posting: look at twitter where a common refrain is "Look, my pipeline only has a bit of child porn and bestiality in it. It is mostly fine and the people I like still post there so I'll keep using it"

Why do you think it needs to be able to be monetized for people to care about modding? I would imagine that most good-faith mods are passionate about the communities they're modding and the subjects they're about, and they care about them because they want to see them thrive and not be overrun by bad actors.

Exactly. Stop moderating and remove any auto moderating bots. That's it. Let Reddit self destruct.

It's a platform whose time to die has arrived. The corpos are getting their hands on it, and nothing punk can be done with it anymore.

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I see where you're coming from but I hope Reddit doesn't die. Yes this situation sucks, but there's a lot of valuable information on Reddit after years of indexing everyone and anyone's questions. Killing Reddit is akin to burning down the library of Alexandria (Not nearly as sever, but I'm sure you get the picture.)

At least before Reddit dies, I hope we find a way to archive at of that user data.

It would be preferable, if the idiots stay at reddit.

reddit took a downturn when Digg imploded. Now reddit is a lot like Digg was back then.