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by adolfojp
1081 days ago
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Me and a few other moderators of some medium sized subs that we manage are leaving and a few others have been demoralized into doing nothing. We're having trouble finding new mods and the ones who are filling applications are either racists or power mods. The subs are operating in a restricted manner in part as a form of extended protest but in reality mostly because there's no longer enough manpower to run them in an effective manner. When the subs are finally forced to open fully the remaining mods will need to either make moderating their full time job or they will be crushed by a neverending queue of spam and hate and by people asking how to fix their mouse in a software forum. Interacting with other mod teams we've learned that this mod scarcity is apparently universal. None of this matters to reddit because in all honesty they would probably be happier and more profitable by converting the website into a read only feed of memes and kittens. |
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The irony being chatGPT wouldn't exist without Reddit data and supposedly the cause of the API updates, even this Sam Altman is on the board of Reddit.
I'd like to build a DAO with a centralized hub which basically models taxonomies for things like channels or tags etc as well as being a central source of truth for usernames and authentications. It'd be fully open source and could be splintered if there's some conflict in the community. For instance racists can get bent and start their own centralized server and be defederated from the core.
What would be funny is if a meme started that Reddit is now hiring moderators, payment is fame and glory. Nazis, Bigots, Hypocrites, Cult leaders welcome, apply within. You know it'd happen. Reddit is about to become voat or worse 4chan 2.0 electric boogaloo.