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I cannot buy into a wholesale generalization that mods are power tripping people who deserve our contempt because they are lonely. There’s all kinds of motivat
by sirspacey 4y ago
I cannot buy into a wholesale generalization that mods are power tripping people who deserve our contempt because they are lonely.
There’s all kinds of motivations for being a mod. I rarely find a sub where mods aren’t dealing with far more BS than they are putting out.
If I don’t agree with how mods handle a channel, I leave.
I think it’s important that we question the usefulness of blaming society for the lack of quality in “default” content. Yes, you’re funneled into these channels. Yes, Reddit is seeking to get people to consume them. Yes, the interest of advertisers override all others. Yes, Reddit constantly inserts unwanted subs into my feed.
Yet Reddit is still a place I can curate to the subs that align with my interests & values. it’s not dead yet.
I don’t expect any social media platform to give me the defaults I want. I’ve accepted that I can take responsibility for the content I consume.
What I’d like is to build tools that enable people to more easily filter for that content. I believe we need stronger filtering tools, not weaker.
This is where I do wholeheartedly agree with author - the loss of Aaron and RSS feeds was the end of the cyberpunk movement in the browser based web.
I don’t know if web3 genuinely offers a second chance, but I do know that I will continue to want the ability to learn from thoughtful people of all walks of life. That requires the ability to filter out everything else. At this point, I’d rather select keywords to filter than to surface & happily pay for the privilege.
I’m so tired of being spoon fed the empty calories of outrage.
- trashcan 4y agoSounds like you haven't met any reddit mods. And no, web3 offers nothing except the ability to try and control your digital currency and make money off you.
- Jistern 4y agoI agree. The Reddit mods I've dealt with were nasty people.
- richbell 4y agoI think the tiny amount of power goes to people's heads. Power-tripping moderators of small subreddits are a dime a dozen. The larger problem is that most subreddits are moderated by a handful of people, whose interest is expressly _moderating_. They don't care about the community. How could they, they have so many? And the power absolutely goes to their head.
- winternett 4y agoIt's really because most mods and tech leaders are the types of people that want to play everything like a video game and have everyone else just watch them play as a spectator... We praise exec wisdom and foresight a lot, but in reality, the people who come in an sit for years in exec positions when no new innovation happens are just reacting to profit indicators and protecting the company for as long as they serve, while leaving a bunch of headaches for the next guy who comes in. This is the age of "don't rock the userbase" boat in tech. It's only companies that disrupt the entire social media landscape as we know it that wins next, but given time, they too will screw it all up... All of it repeatedly just reaffirming the true genius of MySpace Tom.
- thefz 4y agoYou are automatically banned from some subs if you comment/post in other blacklisted, "rival" communities. Let this sink in.
- xdfgh1112 4y agoVery few communities do that, and you generally aren't missing out getting banned from them anyway.
- himinlomax 4y agoYou immediately get a dozen ban notifications if you post in KotakuInaction.
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoOr TumblrInAction or PoliticalCompassMemes. Regardless of the content of your responses/posts, you get banned.
- himinlomax 4y agoTulblrInAction has just been banned.
- Sebb767 4y agoDefault subs are doing this. It's one thing if a small sub does strange things, but if a massive sub that explicitly recommend by Reddit acts like this (for years now!), it sends a pretty clear message.
- sascha_sl 4y ago> This is where I do wholeheartedly agree with author - the loss of Aaron and RSS feeds was the end of the cyberpunk movement in the browser based web. Aside from not calling it a "cyberpunk movement", the people who work on such tech are still around. See: Mastodon, Pleroma.
- sirspacey 4y agofair - I don’t mean to define his work or vision, just my own sense of admiration for seeking to establish a source of knowledge not fully co-opted by institutions.