What logo is the pie chart looking thing?
PieFed
I’m shocked Reddit is still running given how much the owner blatantly tries to milk as much money or if it as possible with zero regards for sustainability.
Every time I land there because there’s a product or technology discussion that got surfaced as relevant in my search results, all the comments seem to be from 3 to 5 years ago.
I know there must be people still posting there currently, but are they even getting indexed?
AOL and Yahoo still technically exist
Said this elsewhere, but:
What’s interesting to me here regarding this, is Reddits current preparation timescale for the changes here. This isn’t going to be enforced until March 31st, 2026. This tells me that Reddit would have been unprepared for a complete mass-walkout of community moderators during the 2023 Reddit API strikes. A large chunk of Reddit during that period was genuinely inaccessible. But after a few token gestures and a few examples made of some especially rebellious mod-teams, most of the striking moderators returned.
A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website. You can’t just hastily promote random people to replace moderators Reddit is either forced to remove or who leave voluntarily. The average person is likely too lazy, too arbitrary and too corrupt to effectively oversee communities of notable sizes.
People whine about terminally online moderators being power-hungry and garbage, but I can assure you hastily promoted randoms given the keys are far worse in most cases.
It was so disappointing to see mods buckling to the pressure. Like what’re admins going to do, sue you? Ban you? I wouldn’t want to be part of any platform that would behave that way.
I’d rather leave with a hundred die-hard community members than stay for ten thousands lemmings.
A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website.
There weren’t really other places to go (most of the Lemmy instances got created around the API announcement), and changes to subreddits would have been reverted
Yeah, I remember the time, I had like 2-3 alternatives in my list that I switched between to see what people are posting and how it filled the feed. Personally I decided on staying with Lemmy only months after the event.
They could revert them, but they couldn’t replace how they run the communities. That’s the thing. Reddit would’ve had to scramble to find hundreds, thousands of mods potentially who would be good fits for communities.
Let’s be honest, some mods were too happy with the power they had to completely leave the platform.
I used to mod my local sub, the main sub there still handles alone most of the reports. All the other mods left, but he’s still handling dozens of reports per week. I asked him once if he ever considered Lemmy, “Reddit is where the people are”. Well yeah, thanks to you working for them for free
Let’s be honest, some mods were too happy with the power they had to completely leave the platform.
They can always mod on .world for the same.
Look at the mods of the major communities and see how much overlap there is.
Let’s be honest, some mods were too happy with the power they had to completely leave the platform.
Yep, unfortunately. Still an opportunity missed though.
Hey reddit.com, wanna join us?
Ew not u, I meant reddthat.com
The day I left reddit was like the Smeagol is free dance
