I don’t believe it failed. It’s just not a capitulation by the CEO and board begging us to come back. Lasting damage has been done and it takes time for that effect to be seen. Give it time.
FYI- ads have been down 50% since protests began and they continue further down with time. Plus, Minecraft’s announcement is going to affect things further.
I'm not sure what people expected to happen. The protests did what they needed to do: they seeded the threadiverse with enough users for a general feed.
Reddit is not going to advertise its internal struggles. We've already seen they can't follow through with their threat to replace moderators when they shutdown "TIHI". Last I checked 3/6 subreddits with 30+ million subs were in some kind of locked or troll state. Another sub mentioned they've had to turn off comments because they dont have the tools to address the 200k+ submissions of backlogged flagged content.
I agree that it's on the decline, but that's not very good logic. Reddit's been around for over a dozen years. I'd expect most all-time posts to be from >2 years ago because you're counting top posts from the past 2 years against the top posts from over a decade prior.
I have no clue tbh. I left with the protests, and haven’t been back. They can be as successful, or as much as a failure as they want, or can be. They just won’t have me to blame for it either way.
Destroy access to many third-party mod tools, replace mods on the biggest subreddits with inexperienced and unknown people… this is exactly what so many people were warning would happen.
The main subs I follow are more or less back to normal or never protested to begin with. Two tiny subs I mod have been getting hammered with Temu spam and because the built-in moderation tools don’t seem to help I set them to restricted.
The big difference is on /all. Some popular subs have been largely replaced like r/AITA -> r/AITAH & r/TwoHotTakes. But a lot of the usual content is completely missing and in their place are the food delivery and selfie subs.
It was a ghost town for a couple of weeks, after the first exodus. Activity has picked back up, but it seems like about half of it is dug up reposts from 1 wk - 10 yrs ago. So, bots? Not sure.
That seems to be the gist of it. I mentioned it in another thread, but new content there is just dismal now. Aside from the top 15-20 posts, everything below that fold hasn't changed in a couple days for me - which used to age out every few hours.
Reddit lives from it's moderators. But nowadays a good AI might replace that, will have a rough start but gradually become better. I still believe the communities will become streamlined and heavily automoderated due to lack of human reason. That will hurt discussion, conversations and though provoking comments.
This is not really possible. How is AI going to moderate small communities? It needs to know what kind of moderator decisions humans make in order to "learn" how to make those decisions but there's not enough data for smaller communities. It's also not useful for moderating video content, content that requires intelligence to get to (e.g. paywalled articles you have to learn how to get around). It would be very expensive to download every PDF submitted to some academic subreddit, and figure out if it is relevant, etc.
AI can only make a good spam filter, but not much more.
Thats a really good argument. I only had text posts in mind - while I don't care for the platform "Reddit", I care for their outcome. Hope these ungreatful brats will see the results of their actions.
Nearly 8 years on reddit (using baconreader exclusively). I can't imagine the attitude towards users is ever going to improve, not something I'm prepared to contribute to (however little that was).
This kbin business seems very nice, hopefully us reddit refugees don't cause too much trouble for the residents or servers. we've hopefully left the more undesirable element to wallow in a big mess all their own.
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