sometimes the only winning move is not to play
Yep, stop moderating and move platforms. Easy-peasy
fuckin matthew brodderick ovah hereeeeee
How about a nice game of chess
Global thermal nuclear war
Sounds like something you would do if you were about to remove a very popular feature like old reddit in the coming months.
Yeah… something big must be coming and they’re gearing up for it.
Old.reddit is definitely on the chopping block and this is the precursor
It provides limited API functionality still and it avoids the shit ad filled new reddit page
Anything but old.reddit is beyond shit.
Whelp… expect to not be having it in the near future cause that’s next to go
“communities should honor the expectations they set”
Oh, really?
Too bad Reddit executives don’t feel that way about their own website.
pretty sure thats what they meant
The only site wide protest that counts is not to use it
It’s what I did and I haven’t missed it
I miss it. It has subs for everything: niche hobbies, small video games, IRL games, etc.
Still not worth going back.
Same. This is why I hope Reddit continues to get worse. I want another exodus, and I want my niche communities back…
Still not going back tho.
I mean, sure, sometimes it’s unavoidable as a resource because it contains years of info but I don’t really miss the social aspects of it at all. As reddit slowly has become worse and worse I’ve just realised social media isn’t really that useful to me. I do hang out on Lemmy and can’t say that I don’t enjoy it but I don’t keep up actively on any social platform anymore.
Enshitificication of Reddit continues!
The beatings will continue until community morale increases… and of course: profits.
Every day the Fediverse just gets that much better than r*ddit
Fuck /u/Spez
Sorry; the above is mandatory these days when talking about enshittified reddit.
I’d say it very strongly looks like Spez is doing exactly what it looks like. I can attest from my days as a meta-subreddit-mod and reddit mod that this behavior tracks exactly with any time Spez thinks he’s planning an unpopular change; they pucker up hard and start bracing things they think will be affected.
Probably, it is Old.Reddit; because it likely does not add to their revenue. Old.reddit interface was not designed with advertising in mind and it is purely functional first only.
Of course; by editing or removing old.reddit interfaces; they will be lobotomizing their moderation teams. The new reddit interface provides far less control and granular information; making it difficult at times to moderate without falling back to the old.reddit interface.
Undoubtedly they will likely also try to freeze, disable, or cripple AutoModerator /config/ pages, if they haven’t already, or revert them as well when this new enshittification masquerading as a “small positive change” drops. It’s hard to say.
Instead of recognizing their moderators as major stakeholders who have chosen to build their communities on reddit; they have chosen violence, and are treating them like enslaved serfs. Hmm…I wonder if that means they could possibly be breaking modern slavery laws… Until Next Time!
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Fuck /u/Spez
Leave reddit now.
<3 Melody.
I wonder what they are planning that they think will piss everyone off.
Old.reddit being “sunset.”
Don’t use Reddit unless you lick boots
The funny thing is this will do absolutely nothing to prevent a sitewide protest. There are so many ways for mods to effectively destroy a subreddit or redirect it while remaining public.
In fact, and this is the important blindness that Reddit continues to have, the mods usually need to work hard daily just to keep a sub usable. Reddit is so dismissive of that effort and so brazenly presumes upon their volunteer labor that they seem to think subs just continue on sheer momentum, if only they could stop mods from sabotaging them.
Mod posts every day pointing to a new community at Lemmy or elsewhere, stopping using bot removal tools, stopping troll culling, marking NSFW, etc will do the job.
There are so many ways for mods to effectively destroy a subreddit or redirect it while remaining public.
custom subreddit CSS: black text on black background
They’ll scrap old.reddit.com to avoid that.
subreddit CSS doesn’t work on new reddit? lol I had no idea
but if they scrap old.reddit then I see a nice big wave of new Lemmy users coming, and we’re much more ready for it this time
bots are gonna be very disappointed
Well they don’t want to hurt the feelings of the nazis they protect. Keep reminding them that 400 thousand Americans died in WW2 to give us the right to punch nazis in the face.
I wonder how it’s going for Reddit? I expect they are still huge.
dunno, for 16 months now, the only time I went there was after a google search and the answer was in a reddit thread… There is 15+ years of answers to various obscur topics and all, “unfortunately”
They’re starting to get stale though. Sometimes yes, there will be a 15+ years old thread that’s still relevant, but there will also be so many cases that the latest post is 2+ years old and no longer applicable or outdated.
The biggest problem they have I think is that it’s all bots, everywhere
It’s surely beyond 50% at this point.
And the newer threads (from the last 1-2 years) often just aren’t that helpful. Lots of people who don’t know what they’re talking about, or comment just to say they have the same problem.
I can usually get a helpful answer by trying a couple search engines or just fighting with Google, but it takes longer than it should sometimes.
They could just setup auto moderator rules to bury all new posts
