https://www.engadget.com/reddit-takes-control-of-popular-subreddit-that-protested-api-changes-182005439.html
As it promised, Reddit has been taking over control of subreddits that shut down to protest changes to the platform's API.
The Subreddit in question is r/malefashionadvice, for anyone who doesn’t want to click through
They keep cracking down on subs like that. It's like they are scared of the reaction to taking over a major sub like videos.
Dragging out the take overs is such a colossal fuck up. If you’re gonna be a piece of shit you announce it, let people be pissed, ignore it, and then crush the dissent when the day comes.
If anything this just shows spez/reddit are completely incompetent, more than anyone already knew. He’s too much of a pussy to pull the trigger and do the shit he very obviously intends to do. A dumbass and a coward. What a combination.
slow walk suicide. painting themselves into a corner yet sure to blame everyone else for the backlash. again and again and...
Oh. Well, that's sad. I always thought stuff like that and r/malepolish were rather niche in comparison to like, r/gaming or r/AITA. Which is how I picture "popular." Here's to new blood, at any rate?
I don't think it's necessarily newsworthy as they've stated they would do that since the beginning of the uprising. They would be silly to sit on their thumbs while losing communities with millions of subs to protest. Open it, recruit a few people that could care less about 3rd party access and keep raking in that dough.
While this is logical it completely destroys their image and the whole point of volunteers creating these subreddits/their now selectively chosen guidelines they follow only when it benefits them 😆
To go into more detail on the point of their image being ruined they were all about community and what the community wanted/being more transparent then this shit happens 😂 joke of a company
Reddit has stats. They know damn well that 5% of their users created 90% of their best content. And those that worked the hardest for Reddit will be the fastest to leave.
I completely agree with you but I think that the majority of Reddit users don't care and in 6 months time, this debacle will be completely forgotten by them and revenue will have completely recovered. I don't think I'm being cynical about it, I'm just going by past cases(FB, Twitter, etc.). The majority of users simply don't care.
The interesting wrinkle is not necessarily about “the majority of users” caring. It’s whether the content creators and moderators care to the point that the people bailing on reddit are drawn largely from the people who actually produce value.
If 80% of reddit users just browse or post one liners and 20% are the mods and users who generate the content and keep communities from going off the rails, that would be roughly in line with what we’d expect in an online community. If the people bailing out are mostly coming from that 20%, then post and community quality will decrease, which will eventually decrease users and other KPIs. That was the point of the blackputs and demoderation protests. I deleted all of my posts on all of my accounts before leaving for that reason.
The 80% might not care about the abstract, but when content falls off, they’ll find another site. It’s like Reddit: The Muskening
Sure, but if the 20% content creators are instead filled with repost bots, will the average redditor be able to tell the difference? How low-quality can submissions really go before people become tired of it? Judging by twitter and Facebook, the average person as a massive appetite for bullshit, so I think Reddit will continue as long as bots can keep churning out content.
For me, MySpace, Yahoo, Friendster, even AOL have shown that sites need users more than users need sites. Elon is starting to discover that too. I don’t know if these moves are going to be enough to turn reddit into the next used-to-be social media site, but the moves they’re pulling seem to show they’re circling the drain. I don’t think we’re going to get the big flushing sound like we’re hearing with twitter, but I do think spez is going to find out that he has been confused about what he’s selling.
Ads are not the product. Users are not the product. Those are byproducts. Content and moderation is the product without which a site turns into a chan board with a worse UI.
I've realized that most users actually don't care about anything. No moral values in their tech choices, no interest in which company is behind their tech. No objections if Microsoft takes over their computer.
The only mod is asking people to submit comments with why they want to be a mod there including their experience. The answers are mostly hilarious and sarcastic. Some are just chat gpt responses. My favorite is this:
I'd love to be a mod of MFA, I consider myself as a connoisseur of high fashion as I only purchase top brands such as Kirkland, Sketchers, and Uggs. The last few years this sub has been plagued with low effort and low-class fashion sense, I believe I was put on this earth to turn this place around. I'd like to thank u/spez for getting rid of these scrubs who let these cretins roam free posting their terrible fits.
So happy to see that piece of shit website finally come to light. I realized years ago when low life moderators like TheYellowRose could be racist and run subs into the ground, banning people for getting tattoos that are "cultural appropriation" and muting them immediately.
Fuck spez, fuck TheYellowRose and all the loser shit humans that have nothing good going for them other than a mod title on a echo chamber.
I can see quality of posts getting worse and worse. Bots reposting, comments filled with low effort puns and one liners. I hardly ever got on Twitter and even less now but before I would see interesting tweets and comments but not anymore. I believe Reddit will be just the same.
We should start a sub-fedder called ISTA (Is Spez the Asshole). Of course, the answer would always be "yes."
