Comment on Reddit updates look after rough 6 months and ahead of reported IPO

Mr_nutter_butter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A friend of mine was talking about how they had blatant homophobia sent their way on an LGBT subreddit, which was upvoted. Went to check r/ApolloApp and someone critical of Christian was being blatantly and casually homophobic.

  Honestly, I’m glad I left that shithole.

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  • Mr_nutter_butter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They did kick out a lot of mods during the protests and moderation has gone to utter shit since the api change

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    • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah new moderation didn’t stand a chance because the good mod tools were all 3rd party.

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      • Mr_nutter_butter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So many good mod bots aswell all gone

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    • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah. I read an article (also on Ars Technica funnily enough) about how some moderators aren’t equipped to deal with things. I believe they singled out r/canning because of the potential for food poisoning, but r/ender3 had a sympathetic “mod” who only joined that subreddit as a moderator just to fuck with Reddit corporate when they were replacing the mods.

      Reddit, predictably, did not respond, so whoever wrote that article did their job right.

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      • Mr_nutter_butter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh god canning I heard about the new mods haveing less than a clue about it christ that’s a massive fuck up

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  • sarcasticsunrise@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Had a brief look at r/WorldNews yesterday. Every comment was blatantly disgusting Islamaphobia that I couldn’t believe hadn’t been deleted yet. I don’t ever remember it being that bad over there

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    • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same, I remember r/worldnews not swinging that way whatsoever.

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• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  what brainless idiot is letting this happen

  I can’t begin to imagine, who could it be, there are so many Spezs* to choose from. I guess we will just never know.

  • Actually the entire board is rotten. We love to blame Spez (and he’s an incessant liar who deserves every last bit of contempt he gets – all while making comments about “landed gentry” while he profits off free content and moderator labor) but he’s just the public face on the entire board, who ALL just want to push through an IPO and then cash out. They do not care at all that it has destroyed the site, and because bots use API calls, they’ve known about the bots all along, and have openly used bots themselves. Sam Altman was a board member of Reddit for a while, and oh look, Reddit is used for AI training. Or was, until Altman left the board and then decided they wanted cash for that to continue.

  The entire board is shit.

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