[litecoin_m]

I founded the /r/cryptocurrency subreddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/litecoin/comments/n2vrer/my_sad_att...

I detail here what happened to my subreddit after spending months and years if work in promoting it and increasing user audience and engagement by using my other subreddits to divert discussion.

I was just pawned off, demoted and was forced to forget about it.

Well now its a default subreddit and one of the most profitable for reddit.

I remember joining reddit when Digg.com was the best website in the world but started to act this way, there was a community takeover and everyone just moved to reddit after spamming digg. Reminds me off how myspace got ditched for facebook.

I know facebook realised this could happen so they moved the herd over to instagram while rebranding. But these companies thing the platform is what keeps the community together but there are the initial rules and like minded thinking that creates a foundation for the community and not the platform.

[CamelCaseName]

To be clear, did you found the sub, or co-found it?

You mention that the moderator list was reorganized, was that by another moderator? If so, this is well within their powers.

(Aside: Yes, obviously very lame thing for them to do given that they were monetizing the sub)

But the way you wrote this comment, I thought it was the admins who replaced you, and that they just took over the sub.

That would be much more concerning.

[syntheweave]

As an onlooker who does read /r/cryptocurrency on occasion, I've concluded that Reddit is default crypto-hostile because - even though it has subreddits and mods, and that makes things "categorized" - the discussion being gamified pushes it towards groupthink every time: A gives upvotes, B does not. Thus, always say A, never say B, and never introduce anything new either, that is disruptive to the game. The mods will tend to play into the game rather than fight it because it's the path of least resistance; subs like /r/AskHistorians are exceptions that prove the rule.

So actually discussing crypto topics means discussing them in a way that avoids moderation and gets upvotes...which leads directly towards mindless tribalism and backroom power plays to buy placements. Information about new developments other than price action just gets lost unless payola or botting is used to support it. It's hard to learn anything new from crypto Reddit, even on smaller subs. You will get much more out of a mix of Twitter(awareness) and Discord(discussion).