7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are currently dark(reddark.nextflow.cloud) |
7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are currently dark(reddark.nextflow.cloud) |
EDIT: Is this even a list of subreddits that "pledged to go private"? Looking at r/askscience, they never pledged to go private, just to go read-only, like r/books. So why are they and r/books even on this list?
I’d wager that with these 7,245 subreddits “dark”, over 99% of Reddit users are at least somewhat impacted (fairly confident in that) but also that a large minority now face a hardly recognizable front page (hard to put a number on that).
Reddit thinking they can piss off moderators an incredible level of not understanding what makes their company run.
My normie friends who all have instagrams and tiktoks are not on reddit because it's full of "reddit people", and those people are... weird to them. They still make fun of me for being a "reddit guy" despite having deleted my account years ago. Reddit wants to go public, and I think they know that they have to shed that reputation if they're going to be successful with that. They must have known what a shitstorm these API changes would cause, so maybe it's all already priced in, and they're ok with a mass exodus and they have some horrible plan to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Of course, that would completely ruin reddit, but the point is to make money above all else.
Forget about twitter or forget about Twitter's latest issues and decisions? Because I used to open twitter 3 times a day to periodically check in on recent research and stuff. I stopped doing that (maybe once a month now) because all of my fav researchers would get vitriol in the comment sections.
I'm participating in the Reddit blackout (as a 15y user), and I love to see the collective action, but not sure if it's really going to bring about long term change. Egos are clearly involved here, so I think Reddit's future hinges on spez's personal ability for change and growth. I'm not optimistic.
Maybe then, reddit will get off its ass and build proper tooling for moderators.
So far, work productivity is up, but bathroom reading/scrolling is down.
I’ve seen more than one tiktok with 100k+ likes joking about how they add “reddit.com” to their Google search queries to get real results instead of SEO/sales funnel optimized shit
When you go to college, the only anonymous forum you can use is your college's subreddit, when you apply for internships the only forum for somewhat actionable career advice is cscareerquestions, and when applying to Law School or BSchool all the relevant information/tips/guidelines/strategies are all hosted on LawSchoolAdmissions and MBA.
We all know Reddit is a toxic piece of garbage but where else can you find actionable advice at scale?
I haven't seen as much hate for Discord, but Discord has a discovery problem and is still kind of niche.
Mods do useful work that needs to be done, and anything Reddit could do to replace them is going to cost so, so much more. The alternative is a site overrun with trash.
Most of the subreddits were already having moderator staffing issues and were very much understaffed with no one wanting to do it...
Couple that with the shit show moderating the site will be with only official tools and I think this idea that the admins can just boot all the mods and snap their fingers with all news mods is a bit fantastical
Furthermore, the people most pissed off at Reddit aren't just the moderators, it's also a lot of the power users who post the vast majority of the content. So Reddit would have to hire a bunch of scab "power users" to post content. And a lot of subreddits are based on original content, not news links, so real power users won't be so easy to replace.
I think the feeling at Reddit HQ is that as long as there isn't someplace else for the users to go they will be alright. I mean where else are you going to get a Reddit like experience? Digg? Tumblr? Livejournal? Slashdot? Twitter? Usenet?!? Nothing really compares to Reddit. Personally, I wouldn't feel too confident. I saw how fast Digg and Tumblr collapsed. Even if you don't know the name of the next big thing, it is probably out there already.
I do worry about the quality of credible press coverage around this. The issues are much deeper than charging for the API. Many prudent points are missed even in the “I was there when it happened” explainers.