<story><title>Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/15/reddit-threatens-to-remove-subreddit-moderators/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harryf</author><text>What gives me hope is if you ever take a break from social media you realize how worthless it all is. It really doesn’t hurt to disengage.&lt;p&gt;For similar reasons it’s possible for new networks to show up which disrupt the old, such as TikTok.&lt;p&gt;The point is as individuals we are way less dependent on social media than we imagine.</text></item><item><author>moskie</author><text>We (the internet community) made such a terrible mistake with social media. We formed connections and communities and friendships on sites like Facebook and Twitter and Reddit, but those companies need to make money, so those connections are only allowed to exist as long as they are part of a profitable system. How awful it is to reduce human connection to that. To think that I am only allowed to maintain certain social connections as long as they continue to produce monetary value for an intermediary. An awful, awful mistake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jhanschoo</author><text>For reddit specifically, I have to disagree. It&amp;#x27;s a sad state the Internet has become, where you used to get coherent results from decentralized blogs when you google a sufficiently niche hobbyist topic. These days you just get content marketing spam. Append reddit to your search and you get subject-matter experts. The valuable conversation and folk knowledge is all siloed on social media.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/15/reddit-threatens-to-remove-subreddit-moderators/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harryf</author><text>What gives me hope is if you ever take a break from social media you realize how worthless it all is. It really doesn’t hurt to disengage.&lt;p&gt;For similar reasons it’s possible for new networks to show up which disrupt the old, such as TikTok.&lt;p&gt;The point is as individuals we are way less dependent on social media than we imagine.</text></item><item><author>moskie</author><text>We (the internet community) made such a terrible mistake with social media. We formed connections and communities and friendships on sites like Facebook and Twitter and Reddit, but those companies need to make money, so those connections are only allowed to exist as long as they are part of a profitable system. How awful it is to reduce human connection to that. To think that I am only allowed to maintain certain social connections as long as they continue to produce monetary value for an intermediary. An awful, awful mistake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>I mean I get that for absent-minded browsing but even just...having a hobby and talking about it with people feels pretty much like Normal Person Behavior(TM) and Reddit&amp;#x27;s subreddits worked well for that in the same way that forums in the past did.&lt;p&gt;Not the end of the world but as a kid who only could find other people to talk about certain hobbies with online up until college sounds like a lot of pepole will be more bored.</text></comment>