I’m not sure how they are actually anticipating this not to go negatively. If they are pushing active moderators and replacing them, that seems like a PR nightmare waiting to happen on top of all of this.
The people who care have left. The people who don’t care stayed and they obviously won’t give a shit. The only way they’re going to give a fuss is when the content torpedoes, which it looks like it’s already started.
Quality content creators are mostly gone from Reddit. Quality content submitters are mostly gone from Reddit. Quality content commenters are mostly gone from Reddit.
So what’s left?
Mods who think they have value and for some reason care about their /r , and working for free.
Ads thinly disguised as posts. Bots spamming and upvoting those fake posts.
And nobody important reading.
The quality difference on lemmy/kbin is staggering. This is the perfect time to be part of it.
It’s inevitable it will start to slide once critical mass of users have been reached though. I’m curious if federated and smaller instances will keep it agile and fresh and big corp influence free.
People who are fed up need to not leave. They need to go become a mild nuisance. Give nonsense answers to people (those who need casual assistance anyway). Pollute the data without contributing anything useful. And use an ad blocker the whole time.
So done with reddit I finally took the time to figure out how federated platforms work. Just started on kbin, and I’ve been seeing a lot more of what I actually want to see.
@AtomicPurple
Is that stylus one? I tried on chrome desktop and kiwi on mobile, but doesn’t look any different, seems like I’m not able to get it active somehow
I didn’t mean to imply it wasn’t active. I’m happy with the activity so far, mostly. My top requests would be comment collapsing and linking to specific comments with context.
It looks like ass on my phone and there aren’t yet equivalents for all my favorite subreddits and I find the whole thing kind of confusing, but these are all issues I expect to improve with time as the platform grows.
Yeah my big question is what happens when the replacement mods start taking bribes or posting spam? Without moderator tools, mods get a much more raw deal.
I’m not sure how they are actually anticipating this not to go negatively. If they are pushing active moderators and replacing them, that seems like a PR nightmare waiting to happen on top of all of this.
The people who care have left. The people who don’t care stayed and they obviously won’t give a shit. The only way they’re going to give a fuss is when the content torpedoes, which it looks like it’s already started.
Quality content creators are mostly gone from Reddit. Quality content submitters are mostly gone from Reddit. Quality content commenters are mostly gone from Reddit.
So what’s left?
Mods who think they have value and for some reason care about their /r , and working for free.
Ads thinly disguised as posts. Bots spamming and upvoting those fake posts.
And nobody important reading.
The quality difference on lemmy/kbin is staggering. This is the perfect time to be part of it.
It’s inevitable it will start to slide once critical mass of users have been reached though. I’m curious if federated and smaller instances will keep it agile and fresh and big corp influence free.
I care and I’m quite enjoying dipping in and adding to the (remarkably John Oliver themed) chaos.
People who are fed up need to not leave. They need to go become a mild nuisance. Give nonsense answers to people (those who need casual assistance anyway). Pollute the data without contributing anything useful. And use an ad blocker the whole time.
Engagement is activity which is numbers you can show for the IPO. It’s also ad revenue. Best to not engage at all honestly.
That destructive behaviour would eventually drop total engagement.
My goal is to reduce the amount of spez’s payday as much as I can, because reddit is toast and he’s just trying to cash in
So done with reddit I finally took the time to figure out how federated platforms work. Just started on kbin, and I’ve been seeing a lot more of what I actually want to see.
Kbin’s been good to me as a replacement so far. I have my nitpicks but I also understand it’s very early days.
I love that it federates with lemmy too. So many options.
considering how early it is, this place is very active
It’s surprisingly polished for how new it is too.
It’s even better if you install the Kbin enhancement userscript in your browser.
@AtomicPurple
Is that stylus one? I tried on chrome desktop and kiwi on mobile, but doesn’t look any different, seems like I’m not able to get it active somehow
Have you mentioned this to the developer? https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468612-kbin-enhancement-script/feedback#post-discussion
Link?
This is the one I have been using. Definitely has some nice qol improvements until they get added to the website at some point.
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468612-kbin-enhancement-script
Oh this is great! Thanks for the heads up!
Yeah that’s it.
I didn’t mean to imply it wasn’t active. I’m happy with the activity so far, mostly. My top requests would be comment collapsing and linking to specific comments with context.
It looks like ass on my phone and there aren’t yet equivalents for all my favorite subreddits and I find the whole thing kind of confusing, but these are all issues I expect to improve with time as the platform grows.
Hell yeah, welcome! It is very nice and comfy here so far :)
Yeah me too, still getting my head around the differences.
Yeah my big question is what happens when the replacement mods start taking bribes or posting spam? Without moderator tools, mods get a much more raw deal.