[mr_tristan]

In particular, third party apps like Apollo are popular for moderators because the default tools from Reddit are just hard to use, especially on mobile. Thus, I think the big impact to reddit's model is to actually drive off a lot of moderators.

i.e., I've seen a lot of comments like this that makes me think this is going to be a real problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/comment/...

Personally, this is what bothers me the most; subreddits that are strictly moderated are usually useful, and ones that aren't are just not worth regular time.

This is also why I'm not really sure about usenet or any other replacement, because moderation is still the hard problem to get right.

[edgyquant]

Every community has tons of people that would take up the moderation mantle

[Loquebantur]

> (...), because moderation is still the hard problem to get right.

Why not try AI?

[mr_tristan]

While I do think AI could greatly help moderation, someone has to implement it, to be responsible for trust issues. And, right now, I'm not sure Reddit will be that someone.

And it's even more unclear is who would do that more generically where it could be used on a platform like usenet