• GreyYeti@lemmy.world
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    Sounds like something you would do if you were about to remove a very popular feature like old reddit in the coming months.

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    Enshitificication of Reddit continues!

    The beatings will continue until community morale increases… and of course: profits.

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    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!

    https://media1.tenor.com/images/ce7115153e3ae261c59341f516a8ac81/tenor.gif

    Fuck /u/Spez

    Leave reddit now.

    <3 Melody.

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    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.

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      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

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    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.

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      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”

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        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.

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          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.