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Reddit Threatens Subs to Go Public Again, or Else... (gizmodo.com)
submitted 2 years ago by L4s to c/technology
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The site is handing out Thursday deadlines for reopening as key metrics take a hit.

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[–] dethb0y 258 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Reddit's admins don't recognize that they have very few levers to control the mod teams. They don't pay them, they don't give them any special benefits or consideration, and they (clearly) don't even respect them either. All that's left is the stick of removal, and that's only as threatening as the person is committed to being a mod on a site that clearly views them as a disposable tool.

They've already replaced some mod teams with new people, and i suspect that'll continue, and likely cause enormous disruption as people discover being the mod of a large subreddit sucks and is very tedious, dull work that isn't actually fun at all.

Considering how much money reddit makes off the vast amount of free labor provided to the site you'd think they'd have more sense, but, here we are.

[–] sorenant 157 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Imagine complaining about theoretical lost revenue to 3rd party apps when your business relies on volunteer work.

[–] CosmicCat 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I found this to be really confusing. On the one hand, they're losing so much revenue from 3rd party app users. On the other hand, 0.0001% of redditors use 3rd party apps. You can't have it both ways, spez.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At this point, I think the percentage he gave was a bald faced lie. Older users definitely have a way higher percentage not using the official app

[–] Thereisalamp 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Agreed. Additionally, you couldn't breath a whisper about the official app without the thread turning into "you don't know what you're missing, try x,y,z app!" Which had to encourage more than a few app immigrants

[–] xaxl 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

At the very least, anyone who bothered investigating a 3rd party app for Reddit was probably also bothered enough to post and comment on Reddit too and potentially be a power user. That's going to be a drain on quality content at the very least.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The sole purpose for me using a 3rd party app was finding out you could block subs.

Switched to boost and purged all the right wing bullshit I could find

[–] Ddhuud 5 points 2 years ago

Bots don't use 3rd party apps.

[–] hup 18 points 2 years ago

The crazy part is Reddit had a profit sharing agreement with RIF... and was actually making revenue off it for a while. Then Spez shut it down with little or no negotiation in 2016.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fuck the Admins. They may be the owners of the ships but mods did all the legwork to make Reddit work.

[–] G_Wash1776 7 points 2 years ago

Yup, I was a mod of GME, a sub with 300k people and was going to stop using Reddit when Apollo turned off. Thankfully Lemmy actually seems like a legit replacement and there are some decent apps available in Test Flight currently.

Spez will destroy his own company long before IPO, can’t wait to buy long dated puts when they IPO.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I haven’t seen such delusion in a business model since Musk bought Twitter and caused most of their revenue to cease.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@sickmatter @L4s @dethb0y

Musk didn't buy Twitter to make money, Musk bought twitter along with his Saudi Arabian investors, to buy the conversation, and kill it, and in that he is reaping all the benefit he was looking for, as well as access to the Saudi market

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Who are the scab mods who are coming in? Are they getting paid?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I seen some people theorize that some power mods got paid (or is it payed? Idk which one the reddit bot used to say lol) by Reddit, specifically i saw some ppl say that about awkwardtheturtle who got banned, but am not sure if its true or just a conspiracy theory, or ppl tryna make sense of someone caping so hard for a company and antagonizing regular ppl for free lol.

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[–] Variden3301 126 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I was a mod on a millon people subreddit. I threatened them to go private and they took my mod povers. Better to reign in hell to serve in heaven.

[–] Lemon_Rick 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Variden was once a great mod,

Until Reddit admins turned to fraud

So to Lemmy we’ll scoot,

Than be under Spez’ boot

And of his own hell he can be god

[–] Variden3301 5 points 2 years ago

Omg this is perfect thank you

[–] Mereo 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmy/Kbin are the way. Freedom vs a capitalist platform that wants to satisfy its shareholders.

[–] Variden3301 21 points 2 years ago

For the community by the community!

[–] jcb2016 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My sub was smaller it had 73k in 3 years. I deleted my account and gave it to another mod. Of course he re-opend it. Whatever!

[–] Variden3301 7 points 2 years ago

They literally don't care about their users

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Shoulda deleted the subreddit altogether.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

I mean, I might look like the personification of a gluttony demon, but we're happy to have you here.

[–] Billy_Gnosis 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Satan, is that you?

[–] Variden3301 2 points 2 years ago

Aren't we all?

[–] G_Wash1776 64 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just a matter of time, people keep migrating from Reddit. Fuck you Spez

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Couldn't agree more. That knobhead looks to Elon for inspiration on how to run a business.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Yeah, don't understand that. Elon's a guy that overpaid for Twitter: a site that swings between mostly unprofitable and sometimes slightly profitable and then saddles it with a huge loan with interest payments so large that it basically guarantees that it's already dead because there's no mathematical way for it to make enough profit to continue.

Unless the Saudis and other dictators aligned with them decide that it's worth giving Musk a break in order to turn Twitter into a propoganda machine / spy site to catch activists and dissenters, Twitter's already dead. It just hasn't finished bleeding out yet.

How can Spez look at that and think, "Oh hey, I want THAT for Reddit."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's gonna be a surprise tag-team of musk&huff vs zuck&bezos.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Not a fan of Zuck and Bezos either, but let's be real: those two would smoke the other team.

[–] _finger_ 8 points 2 years ago

Tomorrow is gonna be interesting

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Apollo shut down today, I’m guessing a lot of people rather than install the Reddit app will simply just start using alternatives like this site.

It’s what I’m doing.

[–] xc2215x 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Spez really cannot stop can he ?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He sees big big dollar signs somewhere in this. No; he can not.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He sees big big dollar signs somewhere in this.

He should probably take his pills. He's given superior competing platforms a chance, and he'll come to regret this.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

I feel so sorry for all the people I've worked with on the Reddit community team. They get to watch as spez personally destroys all their hard work.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why cant all the good people just join lemmy

[–] bachatero 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The problem is that they probably just don't know about Lemmy, while Reddit has had a 13-15 year (?) headstart.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Lemmy also has a more technical onboarding process. Took me a bit of research to get here anyways!

[–] Dick_Justice 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So, OP is a bot, right? They have no comments and only posts. Where are they scraping these posts from? I'm really not a fan of repost bots, I gotta say.

[–] themeltingclock 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think there are a lot of people cross-posting stuff to generate traffic and discussion

[–] 99nights 5 points 2 years ago

Yep and it's a great idea. People are just starting to collect their karma and this is a great way to do it.

[–] 4am 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah there are some bots that scrape Reddit and some that aggregate RSS feeds into communities. I’m kinda not on board as most post are getting very little engagement.

It’ll be interesting to see how that all plays out…

[–] themeltingclock 9 points 2 years ago

Kind of a chicken or an egg problem - we need content to attract the people, the people are attracted to content.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Nearby stores are selling out of popcorn. Keep goin' Spez!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Spez is quite the little pissbaby

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

What if I went public and private every other day? That counts as active, right?

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