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I think any and all subreddits should go this way.
Reddit is only popular because of the users. We create the content. Yes, a lot of posts on the website are external links but all discussions are generated and concluded by us, the users.
Shutting subs down for 1-2 days and going back to normal is not going to have much of an impact. It's akin to a server blip. If subs shut down indefinitely then reddit has a real problem. 'Normal' users will start to take notice, whereas they currently might not be paying much attention. These subs should go the other route. Shut down and promote alternatives (such as lemmy!) to divert traffic away from reddit.
Pigboy Spez talked about not being profitable. No shit, you dick. This is how you become even less profitable, by pissing off the entire user base.
It's also the mods, working for free while other platforms spend millions on moderation.
I remember several years ago there was another exodus towards Voat, it didn't last long because that place was an unmoderated mess, 99% was spam, unbearable, people got back to reddit really quick and Voat shutdown a few years later.
I really don't understand how spez cannot realize this, piss off all the mods (on top of users) and you're doomed because you have nothing to moderate the platform anymore, see how your investors can be happy about that.
Wasn't the exodus to Voat largely due to Reddit cracking down on a few hate speech subs? Really narrow segment of the user base moving to other platforms vs. what's happening today.
Yes but my point is that lack of moderation is devastating for these platforms, even to those thinking they don't need it.
People who left reddit for voat had even more reasons to stay there because of voat's explicit policy of not moderating anything, yet they didn't and the platform died (literally).
That's why I said I don't get what spez is thinking, since reddit mods are not paid for it, take mods away and reddit dies, regardless of how many people are currently moving away from it (that I believe are still a minority of the entire reddit userbase, many of them probably don't even know what's happening).
Honestly I'm waiting for the day when AI takes care of the moderation. No more biased mods/government actors/who knows what kind of people run the very big subs that manipulate people and gaslight them.
Just biased/manipulative AI instead.
I mean yes, it entirely depends how you set it up. If you want a biased/manipulative AI then sure, go for it
Yeah. They shut down subs like fatpeoplehate. So those are the type of people who went to voat.
the 1-2 day blackout is a shot across the bow. a lot of subs have committed to going private indefinitely on 6/30, I know there's at least some that are planning on that as well, but haven't gone public about it.