sad seeing how many of them folded straight away
I guess laziness and habit will lead to passiveness and desire to stick with the safety of “proven solutions”. The decisions of the mods would not matter if the normal users started leaving en mass. Sadly this would not happen, or maybe it’s a blessing in disguise, lemmy and kbin are much more reminiscent of the old Internet for me, which is something that I have missed.
The important thing is that we are here, I really hope everyone of us will do their best to make of the fediverse something better, compated to the platforms of the big, greedy corporations.
Makes me wonder what they are getting out of it. I mean if it is just volunteer work, the job goes to shit, the company you are volunteering your time with threatens you, why not drop it and take it to another platform where you would be appreciated.
Maybe they have a good reason to cave. But I can’t see it and my naivety just makes me think they are getting kickbacks somewhere somehow.
Those fuckers are undeleting my comments.
You know what? Options exist, alternatives have been literally plastered everywhere on reddit since one week before the blackout began. And everything the CEO has done since then very clearly shows he considers us shit.
Some people don’t care? They’re eager to be treated like that? They probably deserve to stay on reddit, it’s up to them.
I don’t like many things about reddit.
Having said that - this article is bullshit. Let me draw you a picture. You run a company that has a product. You give the users of your product a lot of freedom. That is naive, wishful thinking, goodwill, whatever. Your users start having an issue with the direction of the company. Your users start sabotaging your company. You find yourself between a rock and a hard place.
No matter what you do or do not do - bullshit articles like this will pop up.
Idk, this isn’t simply about making and selling a widgit or service. It’s an interesting other in which the vast majority of the product and service is created and run by the same users. Reddit just creates a space but people don’t really care about the space generally. They care about what happens in the space that the users create and moderate. The users can just find another hangout which could eliminate the need for the space.
I’d argue it is exactly that - the space to post whatever floats your boat is the service they’re selling. There are also a bunch of other transactions where you’re the product, but that’s not the point here.
Which is why I’ve switched to Lemmy. I’m under to illusion Reddit owes me or the moderators anything. Nobody from Reddit had ever forced anyone to moderate anything.
I’ve loved their service; I don’t anymore - hence I’m here.
Well that’s the point the article was making. The actions reddit took aren’t in line with the user base and as such they questioned it and many have decided to move elsewhere.
So we’ll take the protest to the comments? Who’s gonna mod if they kick out the mods?
it’s surprising how many people will do things for free if you delude them into thinking they have power.
I mod a smaller sub and haven’t received this, seems like they’re negotiating with the biggest subs/mods only. I haven’t gotten a single communication from Reddit about this outside of what’s publicly posted or in the news.
get back to unpaid work or else!!!
Weak ass protest if mods just cave… I’d be like go for it fuckers… I mean you aren’t going to pay someone and just placing random folks in that position without the mod tools necessary to do the unpaid job is really going to implode.
