It hurts to not browse Reddit anymore, especially as there's nowhere else to go for answers for niche hobbies. But I will not use it again after this tragedy.
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No, it's called a volunteer.
Without moderators any community turns into 4chan. Yes, even here at MacRumors.
"leeching"... "finally"... "millions"...
It was their open API model that allowed 3rd party apps to be created. I get businesses need to make money, but I'm not sure I understand your thought process here.
No, idiot is correct. Why would you volunteer for a for-profit company?
Facebook has moderators. They get paid.
Remember that the choice is not between leaving or staying with Reddit. It's between leaving and remaining in an increasingly user-hostile version of Reddit, bombarded with unwanted advertising and algorithmic timelines designed to keep you endlessly scrolling instead of focusing on the posts and comment threads you enjoy. That, plus the all-around horrible design of their website and apps. The "new" Reddit will be a cesspool of SPAM, toxic conversations, and misinformation. Huffman's vision of Reddit is a cross between TikTok and Parler.
And MacRumors? Do they get paid?
Reddit mods don't work for the company, they serve their communities. Without mods and users reddit is worthless.
Reddit has been going downhill since about 2015. The exodus of conservative voices was already a pretty bad sign, but the site wasn't completely broken by it.
I don't know if they do or don't, but they should. For-profit companies shouldn't have volunteers...they should have paid employees, or contracted employees.
Meta can pay their moderators. Google pays for YouTube moderators. TikTok pays for moderators. Discord pays for moderators. Twitter (sorta) pays for moderators. Why can't Reddit?
My wife and I just deleted our 7 year old accounts. We also ran a script and deleted all of our posts from our profile to ensure we don’t leave behind anything that others might find helpful.
Reddit is nothing without its content and users. Delete your content and then delete your profile.
I have found so much free time with my life now.
Reddit is nothing without its content and users. Delete your content and then delete your profile.
I have found so much free time with my life now.
Again, so? If the local restaurant isn't profitable, do they start asking their employees to volunteer? I read today that GameStop isn't making a profit. How about their fire their employees and you go volunteer?
If you can't pay for employees, you're not a feasible company and should shut down. If you want volunteers, set up the company as a 501c3 or a public trust.
I work for a 501c3 not-for-profit, and we very rarely use volunteers.
Companies that are not profitable have a business plan in place to turn profitable. And you know what Reddit their strategy is to turn profitable.
And mods are not employees of Reddit. Reddit has no obligation to pay them any money (which they don't even have in the first place).
The only reason why Gamestop is still alive is because it is a "meme" stock.
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Can you share the script? I want to delete my posts but unsure how to do it in bulk. Thanks.
The funniest part about all of this is that at some point, Reddit will just “Thanos Snap” the “mods” out of existence and click a button and turn everything back on.
Ok, think like a business owner.
You can:
- hire 20k+ employees and pay them a salary, benefits, etc to moderate thousands of communities from tiny to 50M members
or
- have a program where people - who typically have knowledge about their communities - sign up to moderate for free
Easy decision.
I am educated on what is going on. I'm just not part of the mob.
They won't remove the mods. It's a bluff. Reddit without mods is done for, content-wise.
What is likely is that reddit admins will simply disable the subreddit visibility button and make all the subs public. Then mods can quit at their own pace. It's like the whole "I'm not firing you, I'm going to make you quit" routine.
No, you can't. AI right now is nothing more than predicting the next word, or generating some art based on prompts.
If someone sold you the idea that AI is currently taking over the world (i.e., sentient) and can perform moderation tasks like humans, you got played.
...and exploitive. We shouldn't be cheering it on, or even accepting it.
Reddit can create whatever fee structure they want. If people value Apollo that much, they will stop using Reddit altogether. None of this BS of some elitist moderators doing some "blackout" crap.
Also if that is the case that all the content etc is all user-generated, then why doesn't Apollo just create their own type of reddit? It's all user generated as you say. Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg created an overlay for friendster and said boo-hoo and shut down his app because of an enormous API fee. It's one thing to come up with an app that is a pure overlay, it's another to compete with another company and become their competitor. Which Apollo can't do.
How is it exploitive? The mods sign up to moderate, no one is holding a gun to their head and forcing them to moderate.
Are you aware of the concept of volunteering?
You fundamentally show you do not know how apps or social media platforms work with this statement.
Apollo is not a company; it's an app created by one developer called Christian Selig. The app is a frontend, aka a skin. It's just a nicer way of using reddit than the official app.
Suggesting that Christian build an alternative to reddit is like asking a chef to create and run a franchise as large as McDonalds.