come work for free
No thanks
builds an entire self-hosted instance of an open source, federated social media network...
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Spez is such a nice guy, protecting the innocent users from the greedy elites who control the site. /s
1/4 bots, 1/4 advertising, 1/4 Onlyfans "entrepreneurs" and 1/4 users. What could possibly go wrong?
1/4 bots, 1/4 paid advertising, 1/4 Onlyfans "entrepreneurs" and 1/4 users. What could go wrong?
He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.
I totally second this idea. The last time we tried to get the internet to seriously decide on something we got Boaty McBoatface.
Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.
Even better. All posts in these subs can be advertisements, perfect.
He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.
Yeah, don't even spend 3% of revenues as a cost of doing business. The soon-to-be-community-elected mods will do it for free. Super.
The last time we tried to get the internet to seriously decide on something we got Boaty McBoatface.
And lo, the Internet looked down upon it's handiwork, and verily, t'was awesome.
All posts in these (business) subs can be advertisements, perfect.
And nobody will ever go there. And, two years down the track, u/spaz will hoik up the pricing or cut them off entirely because they're making money off of a non-profitable Reddit. "We want to work with the business subs but they're not interested in talking to us and have all thrown their toys out of the pram and shut down".
Doesn't matter what changes he makes I'm never going back to that site that it's filled with karma farmers, bots and onlyfans spamers
When the subreddits went private I visited reddit three times, then a couple of times the next day, then once the following day. I haven't visited today and honestly I'm not missing it too much. If I get the urge to visit I just come here and it acts as my reddit nicotine patch.
I just wish it wasn't always the first few results when you look up information on certain topics. Especially for really niche issues since it's often the only place with answers right now. That's basically that only time I visit reddit at this point.
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Honestly fuck reddit. I was so tired of it, but there was nowhere else to go. At least I can develope a more healthy relationship with social media here
Reddit was pretty dope when the most popular post of the day had only 2k upvotes. They can keep their millions of users. We only need just enough.
That’s also what kind of makes me curious about Tildes too, slowly growing for them is intentional.
Well this will bring me back to reddit... So I can vote out the mods who want to reopen the sub.
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I was logging into Reddit to delete my posts (Which Chrome removed the Nuke Reddit History extension, thanks I guess) and on the front page was just gross homophobic memes. Yeah, I don't think I'll ever going back.
Yea I'm actually glad there's an exodus of people who care. The ones who don't, I don't care about them either.
While undeniably shitty, how amazing would it be if after instituting popular voting on mods more subreddits voted to go private? Not likely but it is tempting
I feel one of the reasons many subs have not gone indefinitely dark is that the mods too are attached to their communities, and probably rightfully so. If they are going to get booted out, which may easily happen when you leave it up to the Reddit horde to decide, then they might just decide to shut down the sub.
So you do all that work for nothing just to be able to be voted out? 😂
Yeah, way fewer people will be willing to put in the effort modding if they can just be voted out. And subreddits that are supposed to represent minority opinions will just get voted out by the opposition.
No way we're gonna see reddit elections and campaigns this is hilarious
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He can stuff the votes with bots and get what he wants. Don't think for a second that he'll let people like you and I succeed at voting out mods who are on his side.
The bigger, sadder problem is that it would actually work. There's never been a more divided time in the world than now. You'd think everyone would see how disgraceful Reddit's actions have been and want nothing to do with the platform anymore, but realistically not everyone cares. It's already happening where you can simply tell mods that they aren't being paid for their time and instead of them thinking logically, they go ahead and ban you to silence you.
It’s not like they don’t know it’s not paid, if it’s a fun hobby people choose to support the communities they love they’d spend the time anyway. But with every move to make Reddit more corporate it makes the sites reliance on volunteers more exploitative.
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They're just looking for admin-friendly volunteers to cross the picket line and kick out protesting mods. It's unsurprising that it's come to this, and has already started in various reddit's (such as /r/AdviceAnimals, which still exists, apparently).
He referred to the mods as landed gentry, which is such a gross and lazy way to try to get people on his side. It has a major flaw too: mods are unpaid, the whole idea behind gentry is that they make money from owning their land.
Let me help you out spez, you piece of shit, if you want to criticize the millions of dollars of unpaid work that mods do for their communities try comparing them to an HOA committee, that at least has a kernel of truth.
It's even more hilarious when the label is much more accurately applied to capital owners such as himself; they are the ones actually making money off of other people's labour via their ownership (of a company rather than land).
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Oh you want to have popular elections for mods? Do it, see what happens. Poll crashing is a fucking sport.
Oh yeah, and:
“If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said.
CEO of a company doesn't even understand business ownership. Business owners cannot be fired. They can be bought out. Shareholders are owners. C-level employees are almost universally also owners. Nobody can just "take away" ownership; it has to be bought, and an owner of property is the person who gets to decide whether to sell it or not. What an idiot.
I’ll go back to reddit for a day to vote him off of r/programming
There's also the long game of voting in the most appalling mods you can find.
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tone deaf much?
subreddits as businesses
I'll admit, I didn't have faith that he could, but he actually came up with a worse idea
I don't even think it's an original idea, I'm sure there's mods in brand subs (video games, for example) who are employees for the company which owns the product. He's just making it official and I bet he's gonna ask for a pretty penny for it.
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Is the CEO going to be popularly elected too?
Honestly like, if he makes it so mods can be popularly elected/unelected, well, he's gonna end up with the other sort of Reddit protestor -- the feral shitposters -- tearing down every mod on the whole page. I assume he would have to reverse that policy at exactly the moment he gets rid of his ... enemies, I guess? -- or else ViolentAcrezMAGAEdition is gonna be running r/worldnews with Roger Stone.
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Smart move, it will definitely makes me go back to Reddit.
To vote for moderators who don’t want to end the protest.
Can we vote for the admins too?
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What an ass. I hope this gets some mods still over there to move here.
I'm betting it will not be one account one vote. He'll stack the deck, just wait.
Even if it is one account one vote, the bot armies will be there to ensure the outcome the admins want. Moderator puppets to do the will of the admin team, fuck us pleb slobs that are the community and make his shitty site worth visiting.
The correct response is scorched earth, time to delete the protesting subreddits. the CEO has zero respect for those folks who built those community’s, might as well help remove the actual value of reddit.
Deleting the subreddits would be an easily reversible action for admins. Users will need to edit over comments to actually make a change that wouldn’t easily be reverted. Idk, maybe it could be. It would have to be a lot more users too.
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FUCKING LOL he's seething
Huffman has said Reddit is not profitable and in Thursday’s interview he said that Reddit’s annual revenue is less than $1 billion. Meta, owner of Instagram and Facebook reported revenue last year of $116.6 billion.
Ouch
Pinterest has around the same amount of MAUs as Reddit with $2.8b revenue...
I don't think killing 3p apps and eventually old reddit is gonna make the difference.
So everyone who left wouldn't vote and everyone who stayed can end the blackout
I'm not opposed to only going over there on old.reddit to vote the opposite of whats in Reddits best interests. Mods being a problem and you want them removed? Vote to keep them.
lol watch the voting mods out feature not work on old.reddit.
Wow, one of the rules of r/redditrequest is not bring drama, flaming or accusations, so now they're completely going over their own rules bringing all of that because some users might not like how some mods run the sub.
I don't think he understands trolls and spammers are the most crying babies when you take down their posts and tell mods are running a dictatorship, haha.
This will mean fetish prone subs are going to be taken over by OF spammers, some clothes subs come to mind.
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