Yeah, I'm a mod for a few subs that total about 800k people. 99% of them have been really nice, but dude. The ones who aren't REALLY aren't. You'd think I molested their cat or something, when in reality I let the users bring it up, then vote on it, then vote AGAIN to stay closed. It was overwhelming in all cases that we do this.

Sorry I listened to my users I guess, should I be like Spez and just do what I want? If so, it's closing anyway. Oops.

It's an absolute non-starter. The amount of random... I'm a medium fish there and there's SO MUCH you have to know to mod a sub, plus you're constantly in PR mode with the users to keep everyone happy and enjoying your work. Communication skills. Bot wrangling and sometimes creation. Automod. Css. Rule modifications. Enforcement and reviewing existing threads for rule violations. PLUS you have to know the existing culture or you're gonna make everyone mad.

I kinda want to see it. Reddit would explode.

It's ironic, too, because their entire refrain is "we're broke". Well then. Now you lost most of your big subs and a ton of users AND you're broke. Guess at least we fixed the bandwidth problem.

Meanwhile it was all over ChatGPT training on their API. You'd think that woulda been step 1 to fix.

Problem is, to do that I'd have to open reddit. I've done that exactly once, when I saw /r/gaming pop back up I went to their vote on going dark again and told them to do so.

You best believe we're gonna come out swinging if reddit pulls their heads out of their asses though. I get about 10-20 pms an hour of ban worthy material. This is gonna be fun. "Hey we're open again! Too bad you won't be invited."

TBF a lot of the backlash against the protest on reddit also boils down to "it doesn't matter to me, so it's not needed". Fact is if moderation is done right you don't notice it. I add new t-shirt bot spam sites to auto-mod the second I come across them, for example, so they only ever get posted once.

Reddit has had css since before the Digg migration.

If people generally to the left support something they automatically oppose it, and a lot of the big leftist and liberal sites were the first ones on this blackout train.

Like this isn't being mean, they'll admit they do that. They're proud of it.

... The people who don't leave the country are poor, who exactly do you think the boot is stepping on?

I have the opposite problem. I have a lot of subs to make and I can't figure out which to start with. Or if this is even the server I'm gonna keep, because there's a certain server I instantly discovered I want absolutely nothing to do with.

Poor intern is in the basement writing it all down with a quill and ink. Expect the pony to arrive with your parcel in 10-14 months.

Straight up, all the good subs locked themselves and all of the reasonable people walked away.

Twitter just did the same thing. Spez said he wasn't gonna mimic twitter and then fully mimicked twitter.

I'll like it better here when I can set up all my retro gaming communities again, but yeah. Same as when the twitter thing happened and we went to mastodon. Community is much better for being smaller, and full of the kind of people who seek something like this out.

Yeah, there are 2 kinds of people that mod though. The ones who actively adore the community and subject matter, and the ones that just want power and prestige. People who would step up after a protest to fill a void that was forcefully created are GUARANTEED to be the latter.

It's inevitable, honestly. All things end.

At least we got to see a REMARKABLE flame-out of a once incredibly popular website. I thought Digg was wild, this is something else entirely.

Wall street silver.

I can't tell you how many of those people I've had to ban from various subs just because they wander in and alt-right the place up. EVERY SINGLE PERSON I've banned for hate speech posted there. Literally all of them.

https://nextshark.com/ellen-pao-reddit-dacvak-ama You sure about that?

I see your point and raise you the fact that I shouldn't have to deal with people who legitimately want me dead. And a lot of tankies unironically unapologetically do. Same thing I say to the alt-right applies: Free speech isn't a guarantee of a platform and it absolutely doesn't mean anyone has to listen to you.

I'm gonna fill up my block list in about a day at this rate.

https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/ripples-through-reddit-as-advertisers-weather-moderators-strike/# Meanwhile in reality...

It's interesting how the tankies and the neocons always immediately run screaming to calling everyone who disagrees with them a pedophile. It's almost like y'all have a lot in common.

It NEEDS the ability to block entire instances as an individual user.

It's a glaring problem that I noticed nearly instantly, Lemmy is currently very off-putting because of how some people from one very specific server interact with everyone around them. 90% of the people on here are great, that 10% is already making me second-guess being here without a custom server.

It's definitely gonna happen. I might end up just setting up a server first and doing it that way, it feels like the easiest way to go about things.