It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.
  • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    4 days ago

    Here’s the VP of Reddit’s community cited in the article, Laura Nestler, preaching super engagement from a platforms most fanatical users to power content for the 90%.

    She suggests, intrinsic motivators such as “autonomy”.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vWUMW6Ovf6o

    She was at Yelp prior, which if you want to look at a steaming pile of a wasted company, man give reddit 5-10 years.

  • MobileDecay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    They can’t have anyone but themselves breaking the site. 😂 People should figure out a good way to protest Reddit. Ddos attacks can’t be fixed. 😁

  • gorgori@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    4 days ago

    In the next protest mods should allow content like porn as another way of protest.

  • 2pt_perversion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    4 days ago

    Mods could just make a filter to remove everything new anyway. The concept of mods being unpaid volunteers means they get to fuck with reddit if they really want. They already had that issue with some subs just starting to allow porn during the first api protest. Sure reddit can just churn through to newer friendlier mods like the first time but they’re not going to be able to crush all the dissent and drama from moves like that.

    But actually I think reddit has a bigger problem than protests. They tweaked their algorithm recently and it is going the way of facebook now, I’ve been getting 0 upvote day-old posts shown to me. They’re probably getting more engagement but I don’t think redditors are going to put up with that level of enshittification as easily as other social media where people are locked in by friends and followers.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    4 days ago

    I wonder how much longer it will be before Reddit has to start paying people to moderate the subreddits since no one will want to do it for free anymore.

    Who am I kidding, there are so many people that are already taking their payment in the HOA like authority being a mod gives them that will never happen.

  • macattack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    4 days ago

    There’s an irony seeing Redditors creating threads and complaining about it as if they did anything during the API-gate saga

  • BMTea@lemmy.worldEnglish
    531·
    4 days ago

    Reddit is one of the most infiltrated and astroturfed site. I have absolutely no confidence that the leadership are interested in addressing that. When there were suspicions it was anti-US actors, they had to take action because the government would get involved. But we all know that such pressure doesn’t exist for other astroturfing actors, state and private.

    • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
      71·
      4 days ago

      When something grows to that size it becomes recognized as a useful tool with which to conduct social engineering. Reddit has been a weapon of information warfare for well over a decade.

      • BMTea@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        4 days ago

        Yes, what shocks me most is that there was a small window of time in which media organizations covered Israel’s troll farms on there, but when Russiagate happened they essentially mentioned it only in passing from then on. To me, the subtext of that was Israel gets a pass as it’s not belligerent social engineering.

        • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          I got permabanned from reddit because I said to a zionist who accused all Lebanese of blaming all their problems on Israel ‘no, we just blame Israel for what it deserves blame for’ and apparently that constituted a call to violence against a marginalized group.

          Meanwhile the amount of genocide justification and thinly veiled threats of genocide almost always go unpunished. Stuff like saying that no one in the world cares for Lebanon except its cuisine and landscape (implying the people can disappear and nothing will be lost) or telling people not to worry about future problems, implying that they will soon entirely annhiliate Lebanon.

          This isn’t even just it. Anyone calling out the sheer amount of propagandists or showing how real the Hasbara program is (look it up) will get their posts removed. Even the Syria subreddit is packed with low-effort videos and anti-Lebanese propaganda. For example: Any show of what appears to be crowds of people celebrating is attributed to Syrians celebrating the death of Nasrallah, and any violence happening is automatically attributed to Hezbollah Lebanese (or even Lebanese in general) just attacking Syrians for nothing.

          Those videos show no indication of who the people are or what they are doing, and that is how you know it is fake. They also keep making huge claims of Hezbollah conducting massive bombing operations in Syria against random civilians when there is not the slightest shred of evidence to support that, not even news articles or reports from Israeli sources. Just show a bunch of amublance workers and then claim it is a Hezbollah bombing.

          It is as depressing as it is disgusting.

          • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
            31·
            3 days ago

            Ohh I am well aware of these clowns lol

            I did my part prior to existing reddit. So this checks out.

            Zionist support among mods is also super strong it is ducking weird… But if you look at media and entertainment, it checks out.

            Fedi is one of the few people where people are having these discussions in ernest, this discussion can’t had much else where

            • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              Yeah. I got back on reddit with an alternate account and a VPN, the month I spent off kinda cooled down my appetite for that place. I still get a lot of news from it, so technically I don’t need to post as much but… fuck me, I hated zionists before and right now I cannot describe my loathing for those people.

              • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
                31·
                3 days ago

                Seeing genocide real time with 100% backed by your government (presume US here tbh) will trigger a taxpayer…

                Israel was able to fly under the rader but since oct7, many people really started to learn to what actually happened. and no amount of propaganda can fix that.

                me and my homies hate israel… it is an abomination.

  • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    4 days ago

    Bots and locked down curated content vs. hive-minded rhetoric that circumvents anything resembling nuance at all.

    Gotta admit, there aren’t many good choices here.