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“Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot.” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.

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[–] hup 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anyone else read the headline in a Tommy Wiseau cadence?

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[–] popemichael 21 points 1 year ago

Reddit is going full Twitter and it's not going to end well for them.

They are going to lose a lot of good people and be much worse for ware over it.

[–] Drunemeton 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’d dare say that reddit cannot survive without its content!

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite works great for backing up, then editing, then deleting your content from reddit.

I’ve used it on a few of my accounts and I’ve noticed the following:

You have to baby sit it as occasionally it’ll display an error box you have to click on.
You definitely have to run it a few times, across a few days, to catch everything.

It seems that (at least for my accounts, keep in mind) you have to edit the comment, then delete it. That way spez’ world of woe backs up the edit, not the comment.

EDIT: Oh! It’s a javascript that runs from the old site so it can be a bit funky at times. With macOS and Safari I’ve (as instructed) added the link to my bookmarks and sometimes I need to click it a couple of times before the UI comes up.

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[–] meldroc 14 points 1 year ago

With so many of the power-users and mods abandoning ship, we'd better start a death pool for old.reddit.com, since it's mostly power-users that stay with old Reddit. How long until it gets Spez'd so desktop users have to suffer enshittification with the mobile app users?

[–] lynny 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

True, but there are hundreds of thousands of people who are willing to become mods, even with no pay and awful administration.

[–] samus12345 18 points 1 year ago

Indeed there are, and most will be shitty at the job, making Reddit even more unpleasant to be on than it is now.