I’ve been seeing a lot of pro-reddit, anti-mod comments, despite tens of thousands of up votes on Reddit blackout posts. Pro-reddit comments also have a ton of gold for some reason.
Is reddit trying to change the narrative towards hating on mods for “ruining everything” before they try and remove them?
who cares about that toxic place? be free of it brother.
Remember that in an interview, they mentioned that they used fake accounts early on to control the discourse on Reddit.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-fake-accounts–2
Not saying I have any proof they are doing that now, but it does show what they are willing to do to control the platform.
They are fighting for their life (whether they admit it, or just think they’re minimizing the amount of damage to their ipo) and they have expansive resources. Surely they’re doing all they can to limit the leak, likely many things we have no idea about.
We won’t have any idea of how huge the impact is on reddit.
But we already know what it’s doing for the Fediverse.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Reddit was astroturfing it’s on shit on its own shit. Probably ends up as a slide in their next investor meeting as a way to ‘steer the narrative’.
This comment is in jest.
There’s a lot of people who just resent the idea of mods in general because they feel affronted that they can’t just spray their shitposts wherever they feel like and/or object to the idea of the Internet having any kind of quality bar. They’re mainly just reacting to it with a “if the mods are for it, I’m against it” mentality.
But yeah, also, the people who didn’t leave for the blackout are more likely than not to side with Reddit, or actually like the Reddit app and not care about the fuss.
Also also, there’s a vast majority of people who consider this whole brouhaha to be nerd shit and don’t care.
I’m not surprised, a lot of people that are unhappy have left, at least temporarily, and that means those that don’t think it’s a big deal are able to come out in the open.
I’ve also noticed that several of the “Should we remain restricted/private or reopen” polls are going towards open.
