Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said he wants to end user-led protest by instituting a rule that would allow users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest. NBC News’ David Ingram shares the latest.
Cool, so now the alt-right nutbags who control r/canada can take over all the other Canadian subreddits and promote far right propaganda and hatred in all the local subs too?
I projected that same fuckin thing too. That’s what happens for every platform; when the decent, good-faith followers get ran off, the scumbags inherit and just ferment the environment into a cesspool. I’m sure Spez is gonna be pleased with his soon-to-be new userbase full of center/far-rights, apathetic loyalists and equally money-grubbing dipshits.
A former T_D mod messaged /r/aww announcing that he intended to take over their community. Can you imagine what would happen if these bigots got their hands on 10m+ subs? Spez is just empowering the most out of touch, angry dissenters to take control of some of the most high profile communities. It won’t go well for him.
Yes. This is what will happen. The far right will capture large numbers of moderately sized mainstream subs, they’ll think they’re crafting narratives like traditional media does as they alienate larger and larger groups of users, and then the whole damn thing will collapse into the ever widening cesspit.
I’ve been trying to get a kbin instance set up for Atlantic Canada, but I’ve been extremely time constrained the last two weeks. We’ll see how next week goes…
Man, it’s an absolute shitshow over there. The only thing holding people there, much like Twitter, is their addiction. I admit I miss it, but continuing to use these services sets such a bad precedent. I wish there were some better way to show people how much better the Fediverse is and how it keeps asshats like Huffman and Musk from making shit decisions for everyone else.
I went to Reddit today for the first time this week, and it just feels hostile. Even more hostile than before. There are all these people seemingly excited that the 3rd party apps are going away, and people mad that some subs are gone without taking a few moments to understand why.
Normally Reddit is just a pile of people arguing at each other, and now it feels like a pile of people angrily yelling at each other. Who wants to really hang out in that environment?
I also noticed that the site has become more and more negative and sour over the years.
Yeah, the only places I’ve really enjoyed engaging in comment threads are the smaller subreddits. Big ones are frustrating and tiresome at best, actively abrasive at worst.
Perhaps the massive fragmentation that we’re starting to see in the Fediverse could be a blessing in disguise, keeping instances from becoming “too big.”
That’s Huffman, though, he’s getting more negative and sour with every interview. over the last two weeks. The one with the The Verge is revealing of a bitter and reflexively defensive mindset. He’s ready to sell all that data to train AI/Skynet and grab his golden parachute. No one’s getting in his way, not even own marketing VP on the Verge phone call.
A lot of people on reddit are addicted to content. I realized this after watching people get so vitriolic in their fandoms. Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Marvel, Lord of the Rings - these are just the examples I know because I was around those circles - they all have had a point where they made something a lot of people on reddit didn’t like. And instead of acknowledging that it just wasn’t that great, people got nasty over it.
People on reddit are very defensive of their vices and points of view, and they feel very self-justified
Yeah. I have previously said that my personal redline is the removal of old.reddit, but it seems like they’re actively probing around to find other redlines I hadn’t even considered.
For many, many years people have been wanting some way to deal with “abusive” or “rogue” mods. Guess all it took was for the “abusiveness” to be aimed at the Reddit admins rather than the plebian users.
The only thing holding people there, much like Twitter, is their addiction. I admit I miss it
I feel that too, though I’m heartened to see tens of thousands of people joining here, and already it’s feeling lively. Just yesterday I asked a random question of the m/scifi (no idea how to link to magazines heh) and it’s gotten half a dozen replies :-D
Could larger subreddits use this to take over and delete smaller subreddits by voting in new mods who shut it down?
Who says the elections are going to be fair? From what I know about Spez they aren’t going to be.
Oh, what’s this? Our new hire just got 500k votes in just 5 minutes. What a popular person, they will be a great mod.
Totally agree.
For a given sub, how many accounts map to individuals vs bots/fake accounts? For real accounts, how many of those actively engage with the sub? This is not a problem for ‘controlled’ user accounts. The legitimacy of any vote will be suspect…no way around that.
This is a feature people have been asking for since the beginning and is only being talked about or introduced because it’s politically convenient for the admins.
I really hope this backfires and is only a means to an end of the users replacing scabs until the site grinds to a halt.