Main points: He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.
Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.
He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.
come work for free
No thanks
builds an entire self-hosted instance of an open source, federated social media network…
Chad
popular elections in an ecosystem 1/4 bots, in which the admins hold ultimate unilateral authority.
He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.
I totally second this idea. The last time we tried to get the internet to seriously decide on something we got Boaty McBoatface.
Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.
Even better. All posts in these subs can be advertisements, perfect.
He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.
Yeah, don’t even spend 3% of revenues as a cost of doing business. The soon-to-be-community-elected mods will do it for free. Super.
The last time we tried to get the internet to seriously decide on something we got Boaty McBoatface.
And lo, the Internet looked down upon it’s handiwork, and verily, t’was awesome.
All posts in these (business) subs can be advertisements, perfect.
And nobody will ever go there. And, two years down the track, u/spaz will hoik up the pricing or cut them off entirely because they’re making money off of a non-profitable Reddit. “We want to work with the business subs but they’re not interested in talking to us and have all thrown their toys out of the pram and shut down”.
Imo in 2 years down the track reddit will be scrubed of nsfw, and then sold to someone else who will maybe try to integrate it with facebook/other social medias to try and get new users
Doesn’t matter what changes he makes I’m never going back to that site that it’s filled with karma farmers, bots and onlyfans spamers
Yea I’m actually glad there’s an exodus of people who care. The ones who don’t, I don’t care about them either.
So you do all that work for nothing just to be able to be voted out? 😂
subreddits as businesses
I’ll admit, I didn’t have faith that he could, but he actually came up with a worse idea
I’m betting it will not be one account one vote. He’ll stack the deck, just wait.
Even if it is one account one vote, the bot armies will be there to ensure the outcome the admins want. Moderator puppets to do the will of the admin team, fuck us pleb slobs that are the community and make his shitty site worth visiting.
Lol this is gonna be awful
Is the CEO going to be popularly elected too?
OK so it’s basically US politics now? Lol. Sham Wow. This is actually pathetic and made me crack up.
mad king level shit
Watch subs elect actual Nazis, trolls, incels and transphobes to be moderators for the lols and then the site ends up being a cesspool.
So everyone who left wouldn’t vote and everyone who stayed can end the blackout
After debating for a few days and watching u/spez spiral even further out of reality. I nuked my account. All comments and posts edited to gibberish and then deleted followed by my account.
Is there an available script somewhere? Would love to do the same.
I downloaded and used redact on the app store. Really easy right from my phone
Huffman has said Reddit is not profitable and in Thursday’s interview he said that Reddit’s annual revenue is less than $1 billion. Meta, owner of Instagram and Facebook reported revenue last year of $116.6 billion.
Ouch
Pinterest has around the same amount of MAUs as Reddit with $2.8b revenue…
I don’t think killing 3p apps and eventually old reddit is gonna make the difference.