I’ve been the main moderator of the same community since 2016. This evening, i approved my last comment.
I’m leaving for two reasons:
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Reddit went public a week ago. I didn’t volunteer to work for a publicly traded company, i volunteered to work for a community. As long as i live under capitalism i accept that my labor will generate value for shareholders, but damned if i ever do it for free. (this is not a Faulkner quote)
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April 1st is coming and i’m scared they might do another r/place. Doing in r/place 2022 and 2023 has left me dejected and bitter and i don’t want to feel obligated to participate again.
Leaving felt like ripping myself off of something warm i’ve been comfortably glued to for a long time. Still recommend it for anyone still giving Reddit shareholders free labor
EDIT: there are too many comments to respond to, but i’ve appreciated all of them! Thank you
I lost a big part of my habits and communities when Reddit killed 3rd party apps, but I actually left that day. If the mods left their little powertrip aside and actually quit reddit/protested properly, it probably wouldn’t have IPO’d. They were just scared to lose their sub and position. It’s also what allowed reddit to manage replacing the few problematic mods and keep things going.
Anybody who kept going (especially for all these months) deserve to stay on reddit and not benefit from the work Lemmings (not me) have been doing. My experience on lemmy is far inferior to reddit, but I’m doing my part and not going back.
Mods choices were to give up their community immediately to all the chucklefucks lining up to replace them, or to wait and see. It’s naive, not traitorous. Just as naive as anyone believing that anything short of federal intervention could have stopped the IPO.
Despite reddit’s ineptitude, shit like an IPO doesn’t happen overnight, and there’s practically nothing that can stop one if the goal is for the CEO to cash out.
Reddit also was already replacing entire mod teams on default subs, groups of 10+ people. They happily let subs go to complete shit when the new mods were terrible, and closed subs with no mods. Huge subs. They were banning mods for even suggesting moving to other sites, and restoring comments from accounts that had tried to wipe their comment histories. There’s also evidence they were using GPT to run bots in support of staying.
With all the shady shit going down, Reddit would not have hesitated for a moment to replace literally every existing mod on the site. Could have hired people to do it too, at comparatively low cost.
Holding on through that is dumb, but you’re an ass for calling someone a traitor because they had more investment in a space than you. You don’t berate someone for staying in an abusive relationship longer than you happen to think is rational.
Save the vitriol for the corpo shits who did this, actually move the fuck on, and stop shitting on people out of your misplaced ideas of “purity”. These are fucking websites man. Find some more important shit to be an ass about.
What does that have to do with anything? At least I’m not on reddit, or on lemmy whining about reddit.
Literally made that name the day I wandered away from Reddit, the day they killed 3rd party apps. And I didn’t go back! Youre like gamers who whine but just keep preordering, youre ruining it for the rest of us.
