yanderekko

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by yanderekko 3y ago
The ones that are going to push for long-term blackouts don't control 80% of the site. Whatever share they do control will probably be redistributed to other powermods pretty quickly, I would guess.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Importantly, the powerjannies aren't a monolithic bloc, and many of them are already vocally critical of the notion of an ongoing blackout. I'd expect that they know that if some of them get removed then other powermods will eager
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Reddit has replaced mods before, they'll do it again. If they can't do it for hundreds of subs at once, that's fine - they'll start with the largest ones and go from there. Once it becomes clear that top mods will be rem
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>They need to stay up but use their subreddits to publicly plan Reddit "exits" for each community. I have to wonder if this would be allowed, in the past this has only been tried for subreddits that feared being banned in an im
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Well, there will still be some anti-spam tools, right? If there's a detailed argument saying that basic moderation (eg. obvious spam removal and not "I want to ban everyone who's ever said anything nice about Trump") w
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>the impact will be rapidly observable in August as moderation becomes extremely difficult Is there a market out there where I can bet all my money against this claim? The idea that this will lead to a spam wave destroying Reddit is wish
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Overdramatizing threats to your own personal safety is a common tactic of seasoned victims, and is routinely employed by all parties in these sorts of disputes.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>It's clear to me that you're either not a long-term user of the site, or one of those users who consumes only low-value content, which has never been the true value of reddit and in my opinion has continued to destroy the valu
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>If you actually pay attention to who's posting the majority of those screenshots, it will generally be the same set of dedicated users. I guarantee you that someone, somewhere on Reddit will always post the latest ragebait piece on
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by yanderekko 3y ago
The delusion is not in thinking that there's some impact, but in thinking that you as an activist can speak for the collective voice of value-generating users of the site. There are plenty of other users generating content. Eventually
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>The front page material does look startlingly less 'interesting' than it does normally. Yeah, it's all a bunch of repetitive protest posts. The self-aggrandizement of activists saying "we represent the actual value-g
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Give me a break. If the boycotts caused 99% of subs to close the remaining 1% would still easily have enough content to keep the front page fresh, and the algorithm could adapt smoothly. The assertion that Reddit is actually already dead at
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>Lots of people on reddit (and on here) brag about using ad-blockers. They also complain about paying for services. I mean: something's go to give. VC's won't continue to fund these free services forever. These people will
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Yeah, there's a telling degree of overlap between the "The American Dream is dead crowd" and the "I refuse to live anywhere but an expensive coastal city" crowd. Not to say that the latter can't be caused by th
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>The problem is you don't have the mindset of Joe Average. It's something most of us lose as we become nerds, enthusiasts, professionals, etc. We become disconnected with the commons. Oh please, becoming a principled free rider
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>The idea that you'd willingly use an app with baked-in ads is insane to me Do you also boycott all movies with product placement in them? Geez, no wonder Reddit is trying to kill third party apps..
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by yanderekko 3y ago
This boycott will not leave Reddit bereft of moderators or powerusers.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>It's literally the only way that will be accepted by the 1% that keep the site running (read the Ennui engine principle) What makes the activists here think that they can speak for this 1%?
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>Anything that would take functionality or access away isn't "evil" it merely decreases the value proposition potentially putting it below a threshold where its not worth bothering to provide the content that make's r
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Hypocrisy is a bad thing to me. "No bad tactics, only bad targets" is a bad thing to me.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>This is literally authortiarianism and the problem is that you can use it to justify any change by any company ever. If trusting people with the strongest financial incentives to have the correct beliefs is "authoritarianism",
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>First, look at the incentive structure for being a mod of a large subreddit: it's a ton of work, with people constantly bitching at you, for no compensation. And they'll find new people to do it for no compensation, just as th
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>Engagement is a power curve Sure, but the degradation of the UX based on these changes seems to be pretty exaggerated in my view. How many of these powerusers are only using Reddit through a 3rd party client and would quit the site over
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by yanderekko 3y ago
I haven't. So what? Is there anything I'm wrong about in a way that you could provide meaningful evidence on? Surely you aren't arguing that only moderators are qualified to weigh in on the social value of moderators - this s
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>Thanks so much for telling me what goes on in my head, bub. I mean, if you're going to Reddit to marvel at the sidebar rules or CSS stylings, then I guess you're going there for the mods qua mods. But I would assume that this
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>Nobody believes they have a right to reddit When people castigate the mere idea that Reddit should be trying to guarantee a return to its investors - and I can point you to examples of this if you wish - it's hard to interpret this
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by yanderekko 3y ago
I expect that disrupting the powermod cabal would be a net positive for the site.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
It seems unlikely that they'll have to make it work for thousands of subs, and quite frankly if they do then they'll likely have a new cooperative group of powermods that they can delegate most of the work to. I think the real thi
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>I guess the monetized government kids that stayed believ(ed) they were the good ones, the worthy ones. Yep, this is the great irony. When capitalist logic was being used to justify Reddit going after hate speech, powerusers loved it. Wh
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by yanderekko 3y ago
When the most dedicated users are fundamentally hostile to the idea that the social media site may need to limit features for the sake of profitability, it seems likely. Rhetorically the activists here are a step or two away from treating R

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