“If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators[…]. If […] at least one mod wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.”

  • Barbarian
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    1 year ago

    because all your content creators have moved here

    That is drastically overselling our success here.

    Reddit will survive this. It’ll be a worse Reddit, with slightly more reposts, slightly less OC. Some percentage will move on, and a percentage of that percentage will move here.

    If we manage to build communities that have enough people to be engaging, that is a win. We will not kill Reddit, and anyone who believes that needs to readjust their expectations.

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      1 year ago

      I wholeheartedly agree with your statement. But I believe in small steps. I haven’t been on Reddit since the API announcement on /r/Apollo. I won’t be back, I absolutely love the idea of a platform that isn’t owned by someone - in the same way I love an open source project.

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        1 year ago

        Indeed, do not undersell the longterm success of this. Also many gloss over of how unrealiable reddit is as a business towards third parties considering annual contracts in the form of subscriptions for their apps. That was a scummy, if not scammy move, no matter the legalities of it.

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      1 year ago

      There’s probably some content creators leaving, but Reddit will fill the gaps with meme bots and unofficially sponsored posts.

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      Personally, I don’t think we can “destroy” reddit, nor do I care if we do.

      It’ll be worse in a lot of ways, and if twatter is any indication, reddit seems to be going the same way and might be full of fascists out and proud soon.