That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.
Damn right. The admins I’ve worked with over at Reddit understand this, but spez seems to think he can get out of this without causing an entire mass exodus… and just let his communities bleed off and die. The community team at reddit understands how important both the users and the mods are, why doesn’t spez?
My theory is he’s heard Musk brag about how he’s made Twitter profitable, and only lost bots and scammers - the users and advertisers all came crawling back (without releasing numbers)
No way that’s true, but every owner of social media seems to have paid attention. They want to believe it - there’s growing pressure to turn a profit now, so when someone tells you “the users might get mad, but they’ll come crawling back if you stand firm” they pay attention
It’s pretty easy to convince someone of something so convenient
It seems like it’s a common blind spot for all tech bro types, they have no idea how communities work, both online and IRL. That’s also why they want to get rid of government.
All good points!
Have you seen spez? I wouldn’t be surprised if he worships Elon.
My fav comment so far is “He’s really giving ‘breastfed till he was 8.’”
Hasn’t Musk also laid off like 70-80% of Twitter staff?
Forget power users and mods. Shouldn’t Reddit worry about their admins jumping ship before it goes down? If Steve is copying Musk’s playbook, there’s no way he would skip that “crucial” step, so they might as well get out now.
Honestly in my opinion Huffman isn’t the brightest bulb in the bunch, he also seems to have a problem with understanding the consequences of his actions. He thinks that we’re stupid, he also thinks that users will stay on Reddit no matter what. I’m sure some will after all there were a small minority of users that stayed on digg right up until the bitter end. However a large majority of users aren’t going to keep up voting and posting there as the platform slowly devolves into a spammy mess. Maybe he thinks that that won’t happen, after all they do have the audacity to think they can reliably prosecute “ban evasion” when in reality they can’t, especially for bots.