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Reddit Gives Final Warning to Subreddits Using NSFW Protest Tactic
- soegaard 3y agoI notice that programming.reddit.com is open again. But ... there is no explanation on the subreddit. Anyone knows anything? There is a noteworthy administrator on programming.reddit.com btw.
- ZunarJ5 3y agohttps://lemmy.world/post/1194010 https://lemmy.world/post/1194010
- turtleyacht 3y agoRevenue trumps community.
- postalrat 3y agoNobody wants to pay. Certainly not the community.
- kobalsky 3y agowasn’t the t reddit gold a successful way to cover server costs? at least before they added hundred of employees doing who knows what
- endocrinecheese 3y agoIt was, the whole idea of it not being profitable is garbage. They just horribly mismanaged everything, they had to have borrowed too much money from the wrong people or something. People would throw money at reddit and if reddit came out and said they needed to raise prices on gold again people would still pay. Ive only bought maybe three apps ever and i would have paid to keep reddit how it was pre new reddit without ads or suggested subs. Thats why i paid for Apollo.
- Gigachad 3y agoYes, reddit used to be mildly profitable. Before they added a billion shitty features and video hosting.
- Pet_Ant 3y agoAt this point it seems like any victory will be phyrric. I feel like the leadership fails to realise that the value is the community and they are doing everything to alienate it. I mean they could gain control of MySpace if they wanted, but if no one goes there anymore what's the gain? I mean each of them could pivot towards more NSFW content, r/Military really lends itself to NSFL even.
- tnecniv 3y agoThe writing has been on the wall for years where they have prioritized features nobody wanted over features mods and regular users have requested for a long time. The other damaging thing is they have demonstrated any written policy is irrelevant and they can change the rules at any time. While they have every right to do so as the owners of the platform, it violates the social contract between the admins and users. I’d certainly not want to provide free labor for a company that doesn’t appreciate that labor and changes the rules surrounding my work on the fly, even if it’s a labor of love for a community I enjoy.
- brailsafe 3y agoProviding free labor for any specific company is a bad idea unless you earn something of equivalent value to the money you'd have otherwise made in return; I think people have an inflated sense of the derived value they get from moderation or using any given platform. Open source has the potential to be that as well, only usually offering a tenuous value proposition for the people working on it, but a very obvious value proposition for the companies using it.
- dredmorbius 3y agoYep. That's why I'd dialed back my own usage and refrained from posting new content to my own subs years ago. It was was made painfully clear, razors-to-eyballs, that Reddit-corporate's direction and my own interests had little if any intersection, and that that set was decreasing over time. That said, events of this past May and onwards have finally prompted me to take those subs private.
- Pet_Ant 3y ago
- 666satanhimself 3y ago[dead]
- egberts1 3y agoEasily circumvented by posting old National Geographic-like photos of really primitive natives.