@ShakataGaNai That whole post is amazingly corporate - Essentially threatening the mods to reopen but trying soooo hard not to look like that or have a quotable tidbit for the media.
Sad to see so many subs caving to this sort of pressure.
@nopersonalspace There's an easy solution. Open the subs, remove all rules, allow porn, and don't take a heavy hand to moderation. That's what r/interestingasfuck did.
@ShakataGaNai Haha yeah, I've really been enjoying that as a response. Like they can force subs to open but they can't force them to be good or advertiser friendly! I do worry about Reddit just finding 'scab' mods to come in and do their bidding, though.
@ShakataGaNai Actually .. I find it pretty well that it's currently getting a topic whether it is good if CEOs of such large platforms like Reddit and Twitter change their mind and policies ... The Web is living through its distributed nature ...
@RandomDamage No, clearly they wont ban the mods. They are the best slave labor... I mean most active users on the site. They'll just de-mod them.
Many subs have found a workaround, r/pics r/gifs and r/aww now only allow pictures of John Oliver. r/interestingasfuck/ basically has no requirements as long as YOU find it interesting, so it's all porn.
@ShakataGaNai@RandomDamage And considering their whole mainstream appeal relies on the power users who scroll through /r/new to upvote the "good" content, when you piss off those people, your site is toast.
@JessTheUnstill@RandomDamage Yes. Reddit is a useful resource when googling for something. But what brings the most eyeballs in is the CONSTANT stream of new content to consume. People want to scroll and scroll and scroll.
If there is no new content, the average user is way less interested in visiting. They can scroll TikTok or YouTube or Instagram instead.
@ShakataGaNai@RandomDamage The constant stream of CURATED new content. They'll always have a pipeline of crap showing up in their feed. Plenty of content farms spam subreddits with every bit of drivel that trickles out of their servers. The only thing that makes it interesting is that there are people who actually watch that stream and upvote/downvote the good content. When those people leave, it just becomes raw streams of content farmed crap hitting the front page constantly.
@ShakataGaNai@RandomDamage There's almost always a sycophant willing to take over and do everything the corporate wants against all decency and morality.
@RandomDamage The average SaaS service is about 10% of their total costs in "hosting". And a majority of that is bandwidth and compute. Storage costs are so laughably small in comparison to every other expense a company of that size has that it's not even worth mentioning.
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