Hello, Thank for sharing! Seems like it already got posted to !reddit@lemmy.world, maybe we can keep the Reddit discussions over there? There isn't that much technology discussed on Reddit nowadays, it's mostly a sinking ship by now.
Actually most of the discussion happens in !reddit@lemmy.ml
It appears I'm not allowed to interact on that instance, did lemmy.world defederate from lemmy.ml?
Lemmy.ml is dying because the ml domain got picked back up by mali.
That's quite rich, after the way they treated their mods.
Really a sign of them not giving a shit about anyone.
No good person would put up with being a mod for reddit after this shit show with spez. The only incentive to put up with that is the financial gains of allowing astroturfing as a mod (for example) or having a really weird power trip. Very curious to see how reddit will evolve with that kind of leadership
I'm still technically a mod for a small subreddit. I polled the users, they weren't interested in moving over to Lemmy.
(Edit because prematurely posted)
I'm still hoping they'll move over, but tbh it's a good bunch of posters on a niche subject and the mod team has never had to be too active. The topic had a been literally unmodded for years before the current mod team fell into it, so I'm confident we're not needed.
We're literally just a placeholder to keep someone power mad from becoming mod. (Long story long: founding mod abandoned sub, came back after years, was mad the subreddit didn't agree with his crap opinions, made the sub private, I and a few other posters made a new subreddit.)
They care about revenue. They made it clear during protest. “Well our revenue isn’t really impacted so whatever on we go!!”
But it was and they’re showing their true faces.
It's precisely what everyone said would happen. Spez and the Reddit team seem not to realise how important mods and users were to their business! The number of people who will do the thankless task of dealing with the internet's undercurrent of horrendous behaviour are few.
It’s precisely what everyone said would happen.
I don't disagree with your general point, but I remember that there were many people (on reddit, but also on lemmy) who said there would be lots of power-hungry redditors just waiting to take over and that the admins would thus have no trouble at all finding replacements.
Finding replacement is one thing. Finding good replacement an entirely different one.
Let's see how many are willing to go through all that regurgitating shit and survive a month in their new profession.
It's not recognizing as such, but refusing to admit someone not directly under the magnificent leadership of the CEO can do anything important or have good ideas on how to run things. Toxic Techbro culture.
Any luck getting the ask historian mods to switch over to lemmy. That I think would tip the scale permanently
They did make a post about it, Lemmy is no where near large enough for them to be interested. Their mission is to showcase history on a large public platform.
They said they are not happy with how the company has acted, but it would take a much bigger issue to get them to consider moving.
Wonder what the thing that would be tipping point for them would look like.
Either way - shame. I really enjoyed that sub.
I also don't think Lemmy is ready for everyone, especially in terms of moderation. The tools are very limited and hard to access. I have to navigate to each post to deal with it, and the only 3 options (right next to one another) are 'remove post', 'ban from community' and 'appoint as mod'.
There's also no modmail or automod tools, which are really important as a community gets large.
It's fine for now with the communities I'm moderating, but I'd understand if some Reddit communities don't feel ready
Although I also doubt that it will happen until Lemmy gets some good moderation tools first. In its current state, it wouldn't quite fit what they need to do with the sub, especially with the heavy moderation that they would need to do.
What's special about those mods?
They moderate rigorously.
Participating in one of their threads is like attending a university course.
Most people don’t have the context to actually participate in the discussions, but the quality is on a completely different level.
The answers on that subreddit are probably the highest quality answers on all of Reddit.
The mods are very strict and keep the quality exceptionally high
Hah! I can't wait for the next devaluation to drop.
The incompetence of Reddit staff in recent years has especially impressed me.
The incompetence of Reddit staff in recent years has especially impressed me
Tell me about it, I just got a 7 day ban of promoting hate on a samsung sub and my comment had nothing to do with it lol. Some guy decided to randomly abuse and harass me, I reported him and he obviously reported me. I notice he got banned right away but days later so did I for nothing? Lol shows how incompetence and in shambles that the new mods are in.
Ooooh yes. Something similar happened to me out of the blue back in January. I commented, verbatim:
Random fact that I recently learned and thought was kind of cool. One of the very first responses of your body when you get a cut or infection is to synthesize hydrogen peroxide in the area that signals your white blood cells to rally to that area.
I then linked to Science Daily and Harvard articles about it.
Temporary ban for "Harassment," citing this comment.
Later on I incurred another infraction and my account was permabanned, citing my previous strike as justification for the permanent ban. Smfh. 250 characters to appeal...
Meanwhile these idiots excused cesspools like The_Donald for years. Meanwhile I report a person being objectively racist (Calling them "out of control" and "absolutely feral savages") and... They reviewed it not once but twice and found nothing wrong. LOL.
I wrote this all up in a medium article in more detail but I'm half-tempted to send all my screenshots to Fidelity and some news outlets for shits.
I’d like to mod r/FuckSpez. Where do I sign up?
Reddit apparently still hasn’t figured out the maxim “Don’t piss off the free help.” TANSTAFL.
lmfao - may a well just reach out to ol' Hitler Murdoch over at Fox to help him fill his holes
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
