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Reddit hardly cares about improving the world as much as it's own bottom line. The boycotts by several popular subreddits were hurting them, and that is all. —

Reddit hardly cares about improving the world as much as it's own bottom line. The boycotts by several popular subreddits were hurting them, and that is all. — r/legaladvice is a known hotbed of misinformation of potentially drastic consequences that is allowed to stay, as that misinformation does not run enough across political tribalist lines to make people care.

LordHelpUsAll 5y ago
Anti-vax subreddits are removed due to the protests of pedo friendly subreddits such as r/NonoffendingMAP ???
- Blikkentrekker 5y ago
  Hmmyes, everyone who disagrees with me is a pædophile too; I find that the world is so much easier to bare with that idea in mind.
lp0_on_fire 5y ago
> The boycotts by several popular subreddits were hurting them, and that is all. you mean boycotts by a bunch of petulant power mods. I sincerely doubt that rank and file reddit users really cared that much. Whether you agree with the outcome or not this is not the situation reddit admins should want to be in. They've just shown those mods that if they're loud enough that reddit will roll right over. Seems like a bold move to put yourself in that position on the eve of their IPO (if rumors are to be believed).
- Blikkentrekker 5y ago
  Reddit wants to be somewhat decentralized and offload many of it's labor to users who provided it with free content. — This is the other side of it, I suppose. And yes, I mean that the boycots were organized by those in control of those subreddits.
  - lp0_on_fire 5y ago
    That might be what reddit wants not but if they decide to go public they'll have to convince shareholders why it's a good idea to leave the keys to the kingdom in the hands of a bunch of anonymous non-employees.
    - Blikkentrekker 5y ago
      “Free labor” makes the nether regions of many a businessman turn tropical.
- jim-jim-jim 5y ago
  > you mean boycotts by a bunch of petulant power mods. I sincerely doubt that rank and file reddit users really cared that much. I think you're right. It's important to realize that the normy web is cable news, not the agora. There is nothing organic about the apparent consensus expressed there. The top 500 communities being moderated by the same few people is a well-known statistic. The Elgin Air Force Base connection is another fun thing to look into. Every couple of weeks there's another story about some fringe community getting burned by big platforms, Glen Greenwald fills in some template to write an article about it, somebody links to the XKCD comic about censorship, and the dance continues. However sympathetic I am to free expression, I'm a bit tired of the discourse at this point. Nobody expects major broadcasters or newspapers to present unorthodox viewpoints, given how thoroughly compromised they are by intelligence agencies and corporate interests. I don't see why major web publishers should be viewed differently. Engaging with these platforms is not a winning battle. The only solution is to set up alternative institutions, but I haven't been impressed by what's popped up so far. Most decentralized Mastodon etc stuff is in practice even more ideologically rigid, and full of truly psychotic nerds. I like to imagine that there's still some active PHPbb board out there full of dudes just chilling. I'd like to find it one day.

LordHelpUsAll 5y ago

Anti-vax subreddits are removed due to the protests of pedo friendly subreddits such as r/NonoffendingMAP ???

Blikkentrekker 5y ago
Hmmyes, everyone who disagrees with me is a pædophile too; I find that the world is so much easier to bare with that idea in mind.

lp0_on_fire 5y ago

> The boycotts by several popular subreddits were hurting them, and that is all. you mean boycotts by a bunch of petulant power mods. I sincerely doubt that rank and file reddit users really cared that much. Whether you agree with the outcome or not this is not the situation reddit admins should want to be in. They've just shown those mods that if they're loud enough that reddit will roll right over. Seems like a bold move to put yourself in that position on the eve of their IPO (if rumors are to be believed).

Blikkentrekker 5y ago
Reddit wants to be somewhat decentralized and offload many of it's labor to users who provided it with free content. — This is the other side of it, I suppose. And yes, I mean that the boycots were organized by those in control of those subreddits.
- lp0_on_fire 5y ago
  That might be what reddit wants not but if they decide to go public they'll have to convince shareholders why it's a good idea to leave the keys to the kingdom in the hands of a bunch of anonymous non-employees.
  - Blikkentrekker 5y ago
    “Free labor” makes the nether regions of many a businessman turn tropical.
jim-jim-jim 5y ago
> you mean boycotts by a bunch of petulant power mods. I sincerely doubt that rank and file reddit users really cared that much. I think you're right. It's important to realize that the normy web is cable news, not the agora. There is nothing organic about the apparent consensus expressed there. The top 500 communities being moderated by the same few people is a well-known statistic. The Elgin Air Force Base connection is another fun thing to look into. Every couple of weeks there's another story about some fringe community getting burned by big platforms, Glen Greenwald fills in some template to write an article about it, somebody links to the XKCD comic about censorship, and the dance continues. However sympathetic I am to free expression, I'm a bit tired of the discourse at this point. Nobody expects major broadcasters or newspapers to present unorthodox viewpoints, given how thoroughly compromised they are by intelligence agencies and corporate interests. I don't see why major web publishers should be viewed differently. Engaging with these platforms is not a winning battle. The only solution is to set up alternative institutions, but I haven't been impressed by what's popped up so far. Most decentralized Mastodon etc stuff is in practice even more ideologically rigid, and full of truly psychotic nerds. I like to imagine that there's still some active PHPbb board out there full of dudes just chilling. I'd like to find it one day.