Dear person volunteering your time and effort for what you thought was a worthy endeavor. We’re trying to commodify your work so we can make a killing so don’t fuck it up for us.
Dear Spez,
I’ve learned that Reddit wants to profit from my content. I’ve therefore decided to monetize my content going forward. I have very reasonable rates of $50 USD per post. $75 USD for long posts.
I’m willing to discuss this with Reddit but these rates are nonnegotiable.
“we respect the protests, but we will remove everyone that will protest”
the part “decide that don’t want to be a mod anymore” is so infuriating and unrespectful. Like they don’t know what’s goin on…
Actually, as a mod, that’s the strongest action you could take… stop moderating for free for reddit. “Jun 12, 2023 When they’re all functioning normally, Reddit boasts nearly 140,000 active subreddits at any given time” according to https://wegotthiscovered.com/social-media/how-many-subreddits-are-on-reddit/ Now imagine 1 in 10 subreddits were abandoned by their mods. That’s 14,000 subreddits without moderation. Let Spez take over the role of the Landed Gentry for 14,000 subreddits. If he thinks he’s not making money now, how much will he have to pay to take care of all those subreddits?
Subreddits belong to the community of users…
Spez, read that again. Slower this time.
It’s not even true though. Subreddits belong to the user who creates it, they become the top mod and delegate to other mods. If users don’t like how a subreddit is moderated, they are free to make their own subreddit - they aren’t supposed to take over someone else’s subreddit.
It’s pretty obvious that reddit needs these communities. But these communities don’t need Reddit, clearly.
Can’t wait to see Reddit crash and burn
Reddit: “Subreddits are for the community of reddit users who rely on them.”
Community of reddit users: “We think the sub should stay private, and if you force it open, we’ll spam sexy John Oliver and porn.”
Reddit: “wait no not like that”
This message is mind-blowingly tone deaf.
I just deleted three of my reddit accounts. I am done. As an artist, I have more work to do on my primary current account. I feel I should delete my art from reddit so that they can not make money from my art and music.
Fuck em. God its nice to be able to say “fuck em” without having to worry about elon or spez getting butthurt and banning my account.
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that is a softening of language from a couple days ago, def feeling pain.
they dont realize there is no going back, thier path is now set.
“Reopen this, or else!”
But they’re carefully avoiding to say or else what. My guess is every next step option would cost them resources at the scale of subreddits they’re reaching out to, so they’re hoping that the empty threat alone will cause some to relent without costing them anything. Right?
What’s there to take? Like, these guys are working for free running on their enthusiasm and passion. You make them question whether the community is really worth their time, even if they relent for now, how does that do reddit any good? It isn’t like reddit has any actual power over the mods on their ultimate decision of quiting.
Unfortunately, from what I’m seeing in a lot of subs, it’s working. You do have protests from places like r/aww and r/pics doing the John Oliver thing, and r/Steam posting about literal steam. But it seems like on the large, threats of people losing their ability to give Reddit free labor is working to get subs back open.
Edit: r/pics changed, they’ve chosen total anarchy.
They are slowly snowballing but it’s accelerating. Once a certain amount of people leaves or stops interacting altogether, the site bleeds activity and dies. Roughly 2% of people who went on Reddit were responsible for some 90% of the content. 50% of people browsed without an account (you want those because they’re the eyeballs ad are meant for) and the rest were lurkers who occasionally commented. That means if that even half of that 2% of content creators leave, there’s no more content for the rest of the users to see or interact with. Once they leave, all lurkers leave. None of the lurkers are going to take up posting to Reddit, modding or create an account. They will just close the tab and move on to something else. That’s the snowball that’s coming.
(Numbers are roughly remembered from an old analysis of Reddit traffic, but they’re consistent with almost all social media)
I did not know it was so low. That’s crazy. It makes sense though. I don’t know anyone who posts in real life. All the people I know who use Reddit are just lurkers.
Responding solely to move from Reddit lurker to a Lemmy contributor… this is literally the secret right here… join the revolution, hit the effing reply button, y’all…
Okay, reply button hit. Now what?
Do we get party hats?
No, but you get a reply from a different stranger and that’s the microdose of dopamine we all live for.
Hey I am sorry you have to learn it this way, but yes, you do get a party hat too. I got my right here.
Please don’t attack me personally like this
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I really hope Reddit dies a slow painful death, it’s already mostly bots talking with each other in the main subs. They got too greedy and think they’re so large their sh* don’t stink. Apologize for the crass, but man I just hope we get more major blunders and fuckups from spez&co
You can say shit on the internet
Gasps and clutches pearls.
Honestly, mods should just force the issue and make Reddit replace them. It’s going to be a big problem if Reddit needs to find new moderators for hundreds if not thousands of subreddits. And that’s assuming all the new moderators will play along and not immediately join the protest, go on a tyrannical power trip, or just go dark after a few weeks.
Why would anyone even want to be a mod right now? It’s like your boss threatening to fire you from a job you’re not paid for while the building is actively on fire.
Mod of /r/homeimprovement here, that’s exactly what we are doing. We are staying dark and forcing them to replace us if that’s what they want to do at this point. We are at least going to make them work for it, lol.
That is what will happen though. A lot of mods have already been replaced.
Replaced by whom?
I get that some people will step up into being Mods, but modding is hard and thankless work - I’ve done it a few times over the years.
There’s always subs crying out for new Mods, so you’ll end up scraping the barrel for Mods, then the quality will go down, people will get pissed off. With thousands of Subs suddenly needing modding, there’s simply not enough volunteers to go around.
One of Reddits unsung resources was its army of Mods keeping the content of some quality (define that as you will). Reddit really is cutting its nose off right now.
Out of curiosity, how likely do you expect those reddit mods to move to lemmy? I see a bunch of retiring mods posts, but not many that have said they were moving here.
There will be lag, sometimes significant lag, in moving I think. Remember, the protests were about trying to save Reddit, and, failing that, making it as obvious as possible that Reddit’s about to shoot itself in the groin. People who have invested a decade or more building and running stable and growing communities kind of have to grieve the loss of the fruit of their labours.
I do think you’ll see many of them show up here relatively soon, as users. But the prospect of rebuilding from near scratch will probably take a little more time for people to wrestle with.
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