Hey this is X celebrity, btw check my latest project, coming out tomorrow. Amas quickly became an easy promotional platform.
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It's one of the reasons I stopped going to them. Once I realized that if I saw an AMA for a specific person, it must have meant that they were just there shilling some new project.
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It annoys me how none of the news articles mention spez's lying about the Apollo Dev trying to blackmail Reddit.
That's the singular thing that drove me away.
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Would love to see a lemmy community step in with a mod team willing to pick up these duties. Would be a huge boon for migrations.
I bet spez is really regretting that "landed gentry" comment now. IAmA is one of reddit's most well-known communities.
Spez pm'd me and said he canceled my AMA because my elbows are too pointy. :(
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I’ll be very curious to see the stats start rolling in regarding any decrease in Reddit’s views, etc. since July 1. I’m still using it, but only about half as much as I did with Apollo.
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Tldr: iama mods are no longer seeking out celebrities or doing any high value organizing like that. They will do only basic modding.
Why are they still doing moderation for free on a horrible website that is reddit? They should just quit & laugh.
It's amazing to me how sanitized the reddit front page is. All this nonsense going on right now (which Reddit The Company, and Steve Huffman in particular is responsible for) is incredibly important to any potential future of Reddit The Website, up to and including the possibility of Reddit (the Website, the Company, and the Userbase) becoming irrelevant.
But go browse reddit, and you have to look for it. Right now, the first arguably "anti-spez" submission is from r/shitposting, halfway down page two.
And that's it. There's nothing else. If you wanna talk about the current events of the website you're on, on that website, apparently go fuck yourself.
I'm surprised at how low-value the content appears to be. My Frontpage, which I've curated fairly meticulously, looks like All, and All looks like a Tiktokky shit show.
I suspect they've fiddled with the algorithm in order to put their finger on the scale and better control the narrative, and also, a non-negligible group of original content contributors have decided to step away.
Why would they want to do something for free for a company that shows them no appreciation? This is the right move.
Honestly, any user or mod that sticks around Reddit after this entire thing…I just don’t get. How can you be so disregarded, have your opinion so thoroughly dismissed, and then just keep creating content and driving traffic to the company? Fuck capitalism, but fuck reddit in this particular instance.
I didn't even care about the original API issue that much but when spez started talking shit and heavy handing mods it left such a bad taste that I'm here on Lemmy now.
Honestly, any user or mod that sticks around Reddit after this entire thing…I just don’t get.
Because they don't care. Why do you think people are still sticking with Facebook and TikTok?
Because they don’t care.
Not entirely true.
Some of us are still occasionally browsing parts of reddit because not every niche community has fully made the transition yet and said niche communities are the ONLY places to get relevant, timely information for those niches.
I know for me there are some decade+ old MMO communities that haven't swapped over yet. Since many of the old wikis got shut down years ago when fandom, etc, took over everything, for some games the only choices are youtube and reddit. Personally, I hate youtube's monetization forcing tiny bits of information to be strung out into 15-20+ minute videos more than I hate what the reddit team is doing, and I hate what's happened to reddit a LOT.
The move is going to be an ongoing process for a while.
Labeling everyone with broad brush strokes misses some of the nuance of the situation, but I look forward to the day I no longer have to visit Reddit for the information I'm looking for.
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There are a couple small subreddits I’m part of that are lifelines, close communities for people who need a space to share information & be themselves. I’ve checked in on them once during the past month & they’re still holding together. The mods are staying because those small groups of users need them & don’t have another place to go. I expect once the Fediverse spawns more highly specialized niche communities, they’ll drift over.
This makes absolutely no sense. The smaller the community is, the easier it is to migrate. They could just go to literally any other service.
The community is the people, not the platform.