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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by thawed_caveman@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

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:

  1. 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)

  2. 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

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[-] spiderman@ani.social 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

When helpful, contributing individuals remove their content from somewhere, it never hurts the big wigs that made the bad choice

Yes, it only removes a piece of knowledge which could be helpful and save their time fixing bugs or trying out new things for thousands.

Don't throw a temper tantrum and delete content, MIGRATE IT.

Yeah, the proper way is to become a place that can solve your niche questions so that reddit will eventually die. You don't have to "kill" it by changing your informative comments, help etc.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Nah buddy. The propper way is to abandon reddit with all of your data and go somewhere else. Maybe that somewhere else is Lemmy, although it probably won't be. By leaving your shit in, you generate clicks for their website, nothing more.

[-] spiderman@ani.social -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

abandon reddit with all of your data and go somewhere else.

where exactly you will pass those answers for niche questions? unless someone creates a similar community in lemmy, it gains traction enough and someone asks same question? if that's the case, good luck for you, bad luck for that person who didn't make any mistake but wanted to find a fix, spez isnt the one who's going to be annoyed when you edit your comments, that stranger is going to be. let me know if any guys who edit their comments on reddit make and moderate similar communities here, i will be glad to be a member.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Okay then, why should I care about this niche information being on reddit? I want them gone. The comments that were made are made by me. I can do whatever I want with them.

[-] spiderman@ani.social -2 points 7 months ago

i hope no one will be affected by your "niche and informative" comments being edited with "eat shit spez". have a nice day, and make lemmy or other forums that you find useful grow in an organic way.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah, people will be affected. That's the point of deleting your comments from reddit.

[-] spiderman@ani.social 0 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] spiderman@ani.social 0 points 7 months ago

Newsflash, robotics, CNCs, programming

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.

Reddit doesn't deserve being the site to go to for "niche info" and "troubleshooting"

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.

the protest that doesn't inconvenience anyone

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.

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