Reddit is only valuable because of the content users provide. If you don’t post valuable content, the site is worthless. Reddit can force subs back open, but they can’t force users to submit the content that makes the site valuable to begin with.
This is what Reddit forgot. They don't implicitly provide any value, it's the community that provides the value. Reddit is just the place where people happen to post.
So...do we know if Reddit iself is behind flooding subs with comments about how mods are being jerks and hurting the communities pointlessly? It's weird, the same kinds of comments in every sub I'm in. Also lots of comments about how Lemmy is too complicated. 😆
Given how much they have lied about already and the crap Huffman has pulled in the past, I would not doubt it in the least. I am sure they are doing all sorts of mind-games crap like this to try and keep users from fleeing. They have to be freaking out right about now.
All I can do as a user is take my content and time elsewhere. Which is why I'm here. Hoping that like has happened on mastodon, we will slowly move past the "Reddit news" phase and just transition into people contributing to communities and building apps for Lemmy/Kbin.
I've suspected Reddit's ownership of running bots on their own platform for awhile. This feels like confirmation, to me.
I used to go to the /r/nfl free talk threads and the day after it opened HUNDREDS of new accounts were posting talking about how the mods were pussies and blah blah.
It felt fucking surreal like 2016 Russian bot astroturfing all over again.
There have been screenshots of pro-admin/anti-mod comments that were clearly written by chatGPT (e.g. including the "as a neural network" or whatever boilerplate). They could be fakes or false flags, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were real.
The "Lemmy is too complicated" part I can believe is organic from normie Redittors, though.
maybe more subs should fight with this. it is kinda funny. i would love to see reddit flop from this.
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.
Not just that but moderation curating that content prevents the site from enshittifying and degenerating into sludge.
People complain about mods but without mods you get essentially a forum where every poster is ChatGPT.
I support their decision. If admins are going to be dicks, then so be it. I hope they'll enjoy it.
if admins are going to be dicks, then let every subreddit of reddit be filled with dicks
In some cases, in a very literal sense.
I like this more than what r/piracy and r/memes did, (especially r/piracy^) as the content now being produced in those subs is still "quality" content that won't deter users from Reddit.
What needs to be done, (assuming Reddit mods refuse to risk giving up their power) is to pollute the homepage and r/all with so much crap that people refuse to use the website.
^ r/piracy rant, taken from my Reddit comment: (made before switching to lemmy)
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You have given up the protest.
You are helping Reddit twofold: Continuing to provide content, (even John Oliver content is still content) and removing unwanted content. (The discussion of digital piracy)
At this point you might as well remove the megathread as well.
What is piracy and memes doing? I haven't been back to reddit since last week (except to steal content).
r/piracy is only allowing pictures of John Oliver, and r/memes is only allowing medieval themed posts.
Haha! I gotta say, medieval themed posts is a little broad. I think there's too much room for variety there.
I honestly just found about Lemmy and signed up because I noticed the quality of content on Reddit (especially /r/all) took a nose dive.
Even in the comments so much nonsense and hate today.
Welcome! if you're new to the fediverse, I have a quick intro stickied in this sub. The main difference is looking for communities across different instances, not just on lemmy.world.
It's good to see another refugee! Hope this place fills that space for you that Reddit has left empty.
It's not GOOD content though. That's the point.
This is epic level malicious compliance. Best way to run a SFW sub into the ground is opening it up to NSFW content.
TIL reddit cant run ads on NSFW Subreddits!
Realistically nothing is stopping them from doing so it’s their own policies which is kinda dumb af. All they’d have to do is prevent ads from brands that don’t want to be associated with it from showing there.
The fact they don’t show advertisements on NSFW subs/posts just tells me their advertising tools and targeting are absolutely sub par.
As a professional marketer and advertiser, that's not correct.
What keeps them from doing it is that most high-dollar advertisers don't want their ads/brand appearing next to NSFW content.
It's probably more difficult for Reddit to filter out NSFW ad impressions rather than just let ads appear anywhere. But advertisers demand it, so they have to do it to get the dollars.
"The one trick that all advertisers hate!" LOL
I didn't see it mentioned, but reddit apparently doesn't advertise in nsfw subs, so it has more value than just the laughs it gives us.
They are clearly itching to ban NSFW content site wide (paid API doesn't even include NSFW posts). This sort of thing might make a good excuse.
But at the same time, who is going to enforce that? The unpaid moderators you just fired? LOL
A lot of their users would leave.
It was why spez championed subs like /r/jailbait staying open until they got bad publicity in the mainstream press.
Keep turning reddit into a shitshow and you'll keep hemorrhaging users.
It's a porn sub and it's more inclusive now, unless Reddit wants to keep discriminating against sex workers.
Lmao. Reddit had a chance to reverse this crap. Now it's too late. Can't wait for their IPO.
I fear for the fate of other subreddits who may also be forced open.
Mine is closed. But considering it has under 500 subscribers...
... Well, let's just say if Spez forced mine to open, then the site would literally be on fire.
'interesting as fuck' sounds a lot different to someone from India
Why India specifically?
I really enjoy this form of protest. The "landed gentry" is giving the users what they want. I really hope that more communities do what /r/interestingasfuck and /r/justnomil have done to deprive Reddit of its advertising revenue.
unfortunately that type of thing drive traffic to the site so its better to do thing that drive traffic down. I would imagine allowing NSFW content and moderating less would be a great start. If they don't care about you or what you do actively do it badly malicious compliance as best you can. learn from the dissenters in nazi germany. Find ways to stifle them without detection.
People conforming to the letter, but not the spirit, of a request. For now, this includes text posts, images, videos and links. Please ensure that the “malicious compliance” aspect is apparent - if you’re making a text post, be sure to explain this part; if it’s an image/video/link, use the “Body” field to elaborate.
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