Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest

Re:Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest by giantrobot on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:34AM (#36289218)

What tools will those new moderators use? The mods of any decent size subreddit have to use third party tools because the first party ones are apparently garbage.

I think a better question is what's Reddit's endgame? Mods of huge subreddits will just capitulate and use Reddit's crappy tools to do their unpaid work? Somehow those subreddits won't be flooded with spam and trolls? People will stick around to look at ads when every other post on /r/awwww is gore because the mods won't be able to keep up? Everyone will just download the complete shit that is the official Reddit app?

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Re:Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest by TheAnachronism on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:13AM (#36289526)

Agreed, a large part of the platform will just go to shit, as no good moderation tools are available to the mods (regardless if you replace them or not).

Reddit's value lies in what its users provide and post about. This also goes for that data that Reddit (publicly) wants to protect from AI companies. With their change, not only do they screw over its users and communities, but also mess up any valuable future conversation data.

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Re:Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest by gmerc on Monday June 12, 2023 @06:24AM (#36291176)

So like Twitter and FB. Maybe it’s time.

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