How long will mods of big subs have the right to refuse before Reddit decides they know what's best for the users and paywalls them anyways?
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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theres only 92 controlling the 500 top subs, so not long. and those are the powermods, that most likely has reddit admin's ear(direct line of communications).
That was my first thought. Mods found out how much power they actually had when reddit forced all subreddits open when the API debacle occurred. Wondering if some of the defaults or smaller communities will even get a shot at saying no.
Mods found out how much power they actually had when they capitulated as soon as reddit threatened to replace them ~~reddit forced all subreddits open~~ when the API debacle occurred.
FTFY
they gave in so fast to keep their power lol, like bro give up your fulltime job that pays nothing
a handlful of the mods actually own hundreds of subs, like less than 100 owns like 500 subs. they arnt definitely not going to give up that power, they have so many thousands or hundreds of thousands of minions.
Yep, thats when reddit became lame to me initially, they own all the top subs and control the directive, its so against the concept of a community driven forum, they frive the conversation wherever they choose and get better (more abusive) tools every year
wanna bet the political subs, even the conservative ones are owned by the same mods and they are just stoking anger and divisiness for the sake of RU. because i found eerily similarities between how the "left" political subs behave and the mods from the right ones, almost the same thing. how can they not see they allowed right wing propaganda articles into politics sub.
even the banning X link was such a weak protest, how about banning all twitter related posts, because the site gets most of thier engagement from x-based posts.
That, I disagree with. Doing something is better than doing nothing, banning X links still hurts.
from another source, i heard only 92 powermods, own like 500 subreddits, some of them are admin, or admin-priveleges too.
Das tritt nach meiner Kenntnis... ist das sofort! Unverzüglich!
That takes to my knowledge... it is immediately! Forthwith!
Remember when sites would make bad decisions and then just, you know... fucking die? Reddit's entire existence is owed to Digg imploding like the Titan submarine.
Notice how that doesn't happen anymore? No matter how egregious their infractions, no movements away from Twitter or Facebook - no matter how deeply they are infiltrated/compromised by runaway fascism/capitalism - nothing has an impact. No backlash, no matter how huge - is strong enough to shutter these sites and make them stop being money-printing operations.
It's almost like there is an infinite money glitch going on and no matter what, if you're in the "in" crowd, your shit gets to stay around no matter how much everybody thinks it smells like shit.
Hm.
Because the Internet was smaller and was made up of select demographics.
Now, something that's completely unacceptable to some of the population won't even register with the majority.
its actually pretty hard to use the site as a new user, thier ban filters,botting filter is set so high right now its easy to get banned, or your comments removed, immediately, even if you are using illicit evasion methods.
That's the downside of having a group of millions of people, you can't moderate it like a community of people.
In a community of someone is acting out you can talk to them and try to engage. If there are hundreds of thousands of people, you don't have the time or energy and have to resort to brute force methods.
People always complain about the size of non-mainstream social media sites. They don't seem to realize that social networks are far higher quality when they are small. They're just not as economically valuable to the corporation that owns the servers.
If you're old, and used the Internet when it was young, before smartphones brought everyone online and converted the Internet into a theme park, you'd remember the forum communities.
It used to be that, when you'd search for a topic online, you'd find a forum full of enthusiastic people that were passionate about a topic. It was such a great time, you could have a conversation with actual experts and receive good advice from human beings.
That's all been replaced by subreddits full of millions of people spamming memes and bots pretending to be humans that REALLY LOVE a specific product (this sentence brought to you by NordBPN).
No one guessed this but targetting crypto/stock communities makes more sense than nsfw, they love shit like this
i think they went after OF/NSFW accounts because of 2 reason: 1 is there was a obvious troll bot spamming htier porn AI there constantly, 2nd is reddit isnt getting any revenue from the OF accounts that are earning per/account(i dont know how to they are getting money from that) so they banned the of ones.
Perhaps I should start an investing community. I’m not much of a WSB, but investing can be worthwhile.
I think a friendly “how to get started” community would be better than the big peepee energy of WSB.
Itll never be as useful as wsb was precovid, whenever they removed fds and any mention of what they meant is around the time that sub stopped being useful
WSB wasn't about investing, though... it was about watching idiots lose their life savings in particularly stupid and amusing ways.
i saw that 750k guy that spent on intel around the same time the chip fiasco, that was funny. and the guy 500k from thier inheritence or rich daddies birthday gift.
Yeah, I’m not so interested in making a community like that. It is fun to watch people to do dumb things with their money, though.
like the users were telling OP OF those posts, not to spend what they dont have, but the op dint listen and spent 100sk on a stock and lost it all, or only gained back a marginal amount. they just heard "~~dont~~ spend"
Wasn't this the community where you would just buy gamestop and amc? Who the fuck would pay money to access that?
People that pay for blue checkmarks
yes it was the one saved gamestop from getting destroyed by a investment group/ and a PE firm, the ones that destroyed (toysrus,sears,red lobster), if seen the ceo of SEARS he looks pure evil.
I love how people under NDA always feel the need to announce they're party to information you don't have.
It's such a weird human instinct to loudly assert that you know something but you're not going to share what it is.
If they want a "Pay" group they should make deals with sites that are currently behind paywalls. Examples - NYT and substack. Then they create a group that offers access to multiple pay wall sites going through a red sub. It would be easy for them to sell. Why pay multiple sites as an individual when you could sub and pay to join one reddit group that offered access to multiple sites that you like and the cost is less than the individual subscriptions. It would give the current pay wall sites a larger reach and increase their profits even allowing for reddit getting a discounted price from them.
Reddit keeps opting communities to features that make no sense for them. Recap, talks, community awards, etc, which only fit a tiny number of communities.