TygrJul 5, 2023

I logged in to Reddit today

https://lemmy.world/post/1064032

I logged in to Reddit today - Lemmy.world

Today, not in a moment of necessity, but a moment of protest, I logged in to Reddit because I found tons of comments and posts listed on old Reddit when you sort by top or controversial. I logged in to Reddit to destroy even more of my comments that were missed by Power Delete Suite. It seems a lot of people are doing this. I’ve seen some interesting stuff here and Reddit with screenshots of deleted comments with “this solved my problem” below the deletion. The way I look at it, ALL of my content was posted via Apollo, just like all of my comments and posts are through WefWef here. If Reddit admins felt the API shouldn’t be free, then my submissions are also not free for them to monetize and get traffic from. I know for a fact I’ve had 100+ #1 ranked longtail SEO posts in Reddit before I deleted everything. Many of them were getting tons of traffic based on the amount of follow-up private messages received years later. I do expect Reddit’s traffic to go down as a whole because of everyone leaving but also because of how many removed their content. That IPO of theirs is going so well.

Show threadChipthemonkJul 5, 2023

I find it problematic that Reddit thinks it can just sell all the content it’s users created. I like that people are deleting everything, making the site less useful, but it is sad losing all of that knowledge. I hope it reappears in the fediverse.

Imagine if Wikipedia changed its financial model. That would be a major, major problem.

Show threadtrifictional

It’s crazy how some of the communications from their CEO has been.

He clearly thinks he owns all the content on the platform and even called the third party app users ‘freeloaders’ when a ton of them were top contributors to the platform.

Jul 5, 2023 at 7:31pmWeb
Show threadChipthemonkJul 5, 2023
More users should take all their contributions off. Especially if they are informative big posts. Reddit served as a platform that many people trusted, now it’s gone to a for profit model and blindsided all the people that never signed up for that.
Show threadTygrJul 5, 2023

Stupid me thinking that buying awards for excellent content was the only compensation Reddit needed (along with memberships).

Boy was I wrong. I’m hoping Lemmy World will get awards that we can award others to help offset server costs.

Show threadagoramachinaJul 6, 2023
Right? Completely disregarding the fact that all content is user generated and moderated by volunteers. I raged when I saw that statement.
Show threadserenaiJul 6, 2023
He also said the mods - the ones who provide all the unpaid labor to moderate everything posted by unpaid content contributors - act like "landed gentry". It's almost like he's trying to piss everyone off.
Show threadtrifictionalJul 6, 2023

In a lot of subs it was like that though, to be fair.

Some mods go around collecting subs like cards. I’ve seen certain subs where the mods didn’t really bother protesting, or even did protests that actually drove traffic and platform engagement (r/awww and r/videos) because the thought of being removed from their positions of power was too much to handle.

These kind of mods felt like they ‘owned’ the subreddit in the same way spez thought he ‘owned’ everything.

Sorry if this post offends any of the good mods. If you are more likely to say ‘the sub I moderate’ over ‘my sub’ then you are probably one of the good ones and the whole ‘landed gentry’ thing is incredibly offensive.