EDIT: GO DM MODS OF YOUR FAVORITE SUBREDDITS AND POLITELY ASK ABOUT MIGRATION!: something as simple as “Hey, I love this community but I no longer use reddit, will you guys be making a community on Kbin or other alternatives? Let me know please, thanks.” will work!! We need more voices encouraging migration!
ModCodeofConduct switching subs to SFW
POST ABOUT MODS FORCIBLY SWITCHING SUBS BACK TO SFW (teddit)
“What the users want” my ass. Reddit doesn’t give 2 shits about what the users want.
edit:
r/interestingasfuck removed as well
Surely they can’t survive after this, right? Like, people can’t be okay with this.
I guess they’re betting on most casual users to just not notice or care enough
Exactly this, unfortunately.
And they’re right. Let them have Reddit, they deserve it.
It’s staggering the amount of people that are fine with things and just want it to go back to normal
Too many users on reddit love this because they hate mods and think reddit is somehow going to get rid of moderation when reddit is trying to be advertiser friendly.
Just a handful of people will know, so it doesn’t matter.
Look, there are 30 million r/pics subscribers and 50,000 voted to go SJO. Reddit is mostly lurkers and scrollers, and they provide nothing but the eyeballs. 80% of the front page (and I’m being generous) could be completely recreated using only meme/pic/video reposts and newscrawler bots posting stories from the top 40 retail news outlets (let’s face it - every WaPo, Hill, Verge, etc. story gets posted by a “user” within minutes of publication already).
The old reddit was interaction based. New reddit is mindless media consumption. We’re better here and the thumbflickers can join us or not but they don’t add anything to the fediverse except cost. It will take a couple of years to transition, but if the people who value help and discourse can stick it out here for 6 months we really will have a better reddit. With blackjack and hookers, too.
People are ok with this and even if not, they’ll forget it in a few months. Remember when YouTube removed the dislike button? Or surveys? Or forced more ads onto its users?
Nobody is talking about that anymore (except maybe the ads part)
There’s no real alternative to YouTube. An aggregator is not as novel or as complex as a video hosting service with millions of channels with huge productions and followings. This is also a lot bigger than a thumbs down button.