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It's not an own goal if the mods will continue to keep doing it because that's all they have.

• georgeburdell 3y ago
  A lot of mods try to diversify their communities across platforms (Discord, Mastodon)
• Clent 3y ago
  Keep it in what form? How little will it take for the communities to spiral? How would a developer's performance be if you removed their tooling? Could they still develop, sure. Will they want to? Is there some where for them to move. If not, how long until the pain forces a thousand clones? I've been around long enough to see the decline of Reddit. Predicted many times but eventually, the bottom will fall out and with the sentiment of the world towards big business and reddit wanting to IPO. I see this as a place people may make a stand. Because what better place than the place itself.
• ruined 3y ago
  there is a class of power moderators who are monetizing their position, who are dependent on the population of reddit. but most topic-focused communities on reddit are only there because reddit is the most convenient platform. as soon as that is no longer the case, the community will move on, and ultimately that is the same population that supplies the larger monetizeable subreddits.
  • zem 3y ago
    as a mod of a few topic focused subreddits, yeah, if they ever get rid of old.reddit I'm probably gone. I'll miss the communities but not enough to put up with the interface.