I assume someone’s deleting critical news articles there, or having bot armies downvote them. On Kbin and Lemmy and Squabbles, even on Google News, I see Reddit’s woes front and center.
This is why centralized communications platforms are an issue. He who control’s the communication channels controls what people see and hear, and what they know.
It’s why the Fox network, and later Fox News was started. It’s why Bezos bought the WaPo. It’s why no mainstream news site will challenge corporate ownership of the media.
Alternative explanation: People for whom this is important are left reddit and are here, upvoting, discussing. People who do not care are still no Reddit and because they don’t care, they are not upvoting or discussing such things.
To be honest, I am not sure I believe myself to this explanation, but I wanted to mention it. Who knows.
If you are just learning now that the admins manipulate the site in any way that they please you are late to the party. Reminds me of Spez editing users comments.
It’s one thing to hear about this manipulation and another to experience it though. The moment reddit restored my comments multiple times I knew how fucked Reddit really was/is.
wait. They did that? I thought that my reddact ‘forgot’ to delete some comments…
edit :
Nevermind, I just went on reddit to check this. All my comments had been deleted except some that Reddact changed with nonsense stuff such as :
relieved growth consider smoggy oil disgusted crowd water mysterious tender – mass edited with https://redact.dev/
It’s kinda ironic how literally all our communication from spez was through media, not reddit
Seems to be the way CEOs do it nowadays. A friend of mine works in tech and heard about her company downsizing after the CEO announced it to the media. Absolutely zero communication with the company’s staff before hand.
@hiyaaaaa23 It’s because he’s only worried about broader public perception, not the opinions of his own users (except insofar as those impact that public perception). So he goes to the mainstream news media, especially after seeing he didn’t have any talent for engaging with the Reddit community in that AMA. The dude’s worried about his IPO, and he should be.
There was a pretty nasty article on Reuters which I would consider a nail in the IPO’s coffin.
Emphasis mine:
Thousands of moderators overseeing the site’s so-called subreddits are on strike. It’s a wrinkle in Reddit’s plan to go public, and a sign that plan is premature.
When Reuters says that, it means that everyone else knows their schedule to IPO (at minimum) is dead in the water unless they want to have the most laughable initial offering in history.
Long-term, their ability to recover from this seems mostly dependent upon the power users who moderate, and generate meaningful content’s willingness to stick around.
Those who remain indifferent are unlikely to fall within the group specified above.
tells you a lot. he considers himself far above us
i wonder how he’d feel if some rich fucks decided to destroy his hobbies and any passion he felt for them
The world through spez’s dead eyes:
Spez is the King, appointed by God (the board). The mods are landed gentry, who rule small fiefdoms (subreddits) at the pleasure of the King. The King doesn’t pay them, but as long as they don’t upset the King they’re allowed to abuse the commoners (arbitrary bans, etc) and extract profit from them (sell out to companies that want control over the moderation of subreddits.)
wonder how he’d feel if some rich fucks decided to destroy his hobbies
To be fair, the jailbait sub is long gone.
I mean it’s even hard to find some content not related to Reddit here imo.
I wish people would just move on and just post something else. Trying to upvote things that are original content in the ssort by new feed, hopefully it will envolve
@whyNotSquirrel I agree with you generally, even though I think it makes sense there’s still a lot of Reddit-related news, given this is all going down right now. What honestly bothers me more is when I see a wall of posts that are just about the forum/site/server I’m on, e.g. on Squabbles I swear half the front page at any given time is just users praising the site admin or suggesting new features. I get it, but I feel like the sign of a healthy online community is seeing people posting a variety of interesting content on different topics and having engaged discussions about them. That’s why I’ve been coming to Kbin more and more.