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“Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot.” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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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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[–] NASAFan555@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if Reddit will "die off". There seems to be a significant portion of users who don't care about the API debacle or protests - they just want to scroll through memes.

I would definitely like to see Reddit experience more pain, given how cunty they've been to users and moderators. But we live in a world where big companies act like shit and get away with it.

[–] Domille@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no memes to scroll through if there is no one to post the memes

[–] NASAFan555@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I've checked the Reddit home page in the last few days (using an ad blocker of course, or sometimes an alternative Reddit front-end), it looks like stuff is still being posted.

Hopefully Reddit will feel more pain that persuades it to change course at least a little bit. But I won't believe that the pain is happening until I see it. Unfortunately it seems to me that there are some Reddit users who just want to watch the funny videos and don't care about Reddit's poor behaviour.

[–] Domille@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's still too early. These things take time.

[–] NASAFan555@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

True I suppose things could change over time. We'll have to see.