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.

They could just not moderate it tho. Reddit is a toxic workplace (for free) for mods.

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.

like 10 seconds in automod to get right around that shit lmao.

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.

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

fuck u/spez

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.

I just checked and theyve banned my private subreddit for lack of moderation

...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.

This is not a smart choice, they do know that the alternative to peaceful protests like this is violent protest right? They want to challenge that or do they think it won't be done because it's "illegal", that didn't stop these guys now did it?

The same day Nestler and I talked, for example, she said that she had spoken about the changes with Reddit’s mod council, which has about 160 moderators.

Wow. So many power-hungry people in one room.

As a russian I knew it will happen.

Now I wonder what Ukraine Reddit will start war with? EU? FTC? Fediverse? Something to keep it in permanent state of emergency. Bots? Adblockers?

if i post or comment on reddit, anything at all, my account will be suspended instantly. i think they have black listed my ISP or maybe my entire country. i can appeal the suspension every day but nobody will read it. i literally can't use reddit.

You know what's not impossible? Leaving that shit hole and never coming back.

Ugh reddit mod community makes me so angry.... Glad I left that shithole

It just occurred to me that convincing someone of leaving a social media site is a lot like convincing someone to leave a big city.

They have friends there and have grown accustomed to the vibrant and diverse activities, but realistically nothing they do or have there can't be replicated in a smaller town, a smaller media site.

They're liable to put up with a lot of shit to stay with their community, but eventually people get pushed out and find greener pastures and a quiet space for themselves elsewhere. At least, that's what I attribute to what I perceive to be a higher average age on the fediverse.

I'm too old to find the constant stimulation and activity attractive anymore, and I much prefer the freedom to move around and be choosy about my media choices.