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Lewis

@laxsill I love this one. I don't know why anyone would decide to moderate a subreddit as Reddit exists today. It's not a community run platform and it won't even be a privately traded company for much longer. Why would anyone donate time for the betterment of a wealthy, (soon to be) publicly traded social media giant?

12 Jun 2023 at 17:26 | Open on hachyderm.io
Arve

@lewishazell @laxsill as a long time moderator on Reddit: you don’t choose to moderate, moderation chooses you because you care about the health of a community you participate in. Those are the mods Reddit have now pissed off. Reddit’s multi-year effort to make the job as miserable as possible for us, including killing apps that make moderation on mobile tolerable, is driving us away. Which is why the blackout will last until they remove us or fix their shit.

12 Jun 2023 at 17:42 | Open on mastodon.social
Lewis

@arve @laxsill It's very noble of you and I can definitely understand the sense of community can outweigh the state of the platform. I just can't see myself stepping up to volunteer my time to effectively be the backbone of someone else's company. At this point they're basically calling anyone using their API, for moderation or not, freeloaders for using it without paying. That's my problem with it, they won't give as much as a thank you and eventually demand payment.

12 Jun 2023 at 20:46 | Open on hachyderm.io
Arve

@lewishazell @laxsill It doesn't start that way. The first subreddit I got involved in had one member - me - and was intended for Norwegians on Reddit to post articles in Norwegian. Before we turned off the lights at midnight CET, we typically saw 350-400k unique users every month, with 50k on any given day.

I also moderate a few others that started with a few thousand subscribers, but now into the millions.

It's about wanting community without becoming a sysadmin

12 Jun 2023 at 21:01 | Open on mastodon.social
varx/tech

@arve @lewishazell @laxsill That's the sneaky bit—you care about the community, and what will happen to it, even if the platform is being abusive. You can help protect people from spam, and trolls, even while the platform makes it hard for you to do your job.

But it's a trap.

There's no requirement for you to spend your time and energy there. I agonized about leaving reddit and what would happen to my communities, but as soon as I'd handed over control to other mods I felt so free... *and* I realized that I didn't care so deeply as I had just a day ago.

It was such a sudden change in perspective, and it later helped me walk away from a similar situation—again, a good idea in retrospect.

@arve @lewishazell @laxsill That's the sneaky bit—you care about the community, and what will happen to it, even if the platform is being abusive. You can help protect people from spam, and trolls, even while the platform makes it hard for you to do your job.

But it's a trap.

There's no requirement for you to spend your time and energy there. I agonized about leaving reddit and what would happen to my communities, but as soon as I'd handed over control to other mods I felt so free... *and* I realized...

12 Jun 2023 at 21:50 | Open on infosec.exchange
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