It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.
  • Turious@leaf.danceEnglish
    11·
    1 hour ago

    I’m out of the loop on Reddit, but I was beyond a power user on there two years ago. Back then, if every human user on the site stopped using the site, the admins would not have noticed any difference because nearly every post was bot networks reposting old top posts and filling the comments with the exact comments from the last time it got upvoted.

    Garbage website. I miss it for what it was capable of for a while there.

  • IceHouse@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    3 minutes ago

    I ran a subreddit for my discord server that we would sometimes post pictures to and find new members and after we stopped using reddit about 7 months later bots started reposting my own pictures and random bot accounts were reposting old comments. It was really weird for my ~2000 people sub that was under the radar and never reall popular.

  • normalexit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    3 hours ago

    The other option is for all the mods to quit. AI can probably do a lot of basic tasks, but without mods they wouldn’t have a site pretty quickly.

  • gorgori@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    4 hours ago

    In the next protest mods should allow content like porn as another way of protest.

  • MobileDecay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    They can’t have anyone but themselves breaking the site. 😂 People should figure out a good way to protest Reddit. Ddos attacks can’t be fixed. 😁

  • rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    69·
    7 hours ago

    A friend and I were recently discussing how spineless modern boycotts are.

    We set a goddamn deadline for when the Reddit boycott ended. No wonder Spez just waited. Most people then just continued using the website. What a disgrace.

    Imagine if after one week of the genocide in Gaza, the BDS efforts just stopped. A boycott must be indefinite. It should go on until demands are met.

  • Angrywaffle2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    511·
    9 hours ago

    I’m not surprised. I’m on this site because I’m sick of being banned on reddit for thinking wrong.

  • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    8 hours ago

    Here’s the VP of Reddit’s community cited in the article, Laura Nestler, preaching super engagement from a platforms most fanatical users to power content for the 90%.

    She suggests, intrinsic motivators such as “autonomy”.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vWUMW6Ovf6o

    She was at Yelp prior, which if you want to look at a steaming pile of a wasted company, man give reddit 5-10 years.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
    91·
    7 hours ago

    I recently wanted to ask something on reddit after 2 years away, because a certain mod dev is there. Got a message it got deleted because i don’t have the karma to post there. Thanks for the effort, never again. That’s why i don’t write on Stack Overflow, too.

  • interurbain1er@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    17·
    9 hours ago

    Lack of imagination.

    Mods can still dump 10k trash messages in a sub making it unusable. (Or smart messages in the case of most subreddit who are trash anyway).

    Set-up automoderator with rules reventing anyone below 5 billions karma to participate.

    Ban everyone.

    I’m sure there are a lot of other options.

  • wrekone@lemmyf.ukEnglish
    55·
    12 hours ago

    …we cannot allow actions that deliberately cause harm

    Seems like that’s about the only actions Reddit execs have taken over the last several years. Glad I left when I did.