This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I'm out of the loop on Reddit, but I was beyond a power user on there two years ago. Back then, if every human user on the site stopped using the site, the admins would not have noticed any difference because nearly every post was bot networks reposting old top posts and filling the comments with the exact comments from the last time it got upvoted.
Garbage website. I miss it for what it was capable of for a while there.
They can't have anyone but themselves breaking the site. ๐ People should figure out a good way to protest Reddit. Ddos attacks can't be fixed. ๐
30 terabyte of Rick Astley per second should do nicely.
The other option is for all the mods to quit. AI can probably do a lot of basic tasks, but without mods they wouldn't have a site pretty quickly.
What would these busybodies do with their free time then and how would they obtain a sense of self worth ? They can't quit, deleting other people from the internet is their whole life.
That's easy - they'd come to Lemmy and become Lemmy mods to achieve the same thing.
...On their own instances because nobody else will have them, hopefully.
In the next protest mods should allow content like porn as another way of protest.
I believe mods tried this and reddit purged the mods when subreddits only allowed John Oliver images.
They address this. "The policy applies to adjusting all community types, meaning moderators will have to request to make a switch from safe for work to not safe for work, too."
Stop using Reddit, problem solved
I lieu of that, I'd say the mods should just go limp. Stop moderating content and let posters run wild. The company needs to realize just how much their business model depends on all that unpaid labor.
I think they realize it but know these mods are addicted to the fake power so they won't go anywhere no matter what
In favor of what is the problem. In Lemmy half the instances have defederated from half the others.
People use Reddit because there's only one Reddit. Coming to such a center is human nature, while Fediverse architecture is someone's strategy. Changing your strategy is simpler than changing human nature.
If we drop the tech religion part of the subject, NOSTR moderated communities are a very good thing as a global, not per-instance, Reddit alternative. You can clearly see that its core idea is chosen by people who are more confident with human psychology than with tech. And it's good for that very reason. It's an ugly real solution.
Except all clients suck balls and there's nothing to see there yet.
True, the fediverse is poor. But Reddit is the bottom of the barrel in its current state.
Best to waste time watching paint dry to be honest
