<story><title>Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-will-change-rules-to-make-mods-less-powerful-2023-6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marktangotango</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been exploring the fediverse options like kbin and lemmy and I just don&amp;#x27;t see it. Maybe someone can explain. If one lemmy instance has a really popular community, say &amp;quot;Memes&amp;quot; how can that scale? There could be millions of posts and terabytes of data. Then if multiple lemmy instances have their own &amp;quot;Memes&amp;quot; communities, that&amp;#x27;s balkanized and a user would have to subscribe to each instances &amp;quot;Memes&amp;quot; community?&lt;p&gt;Or are communities federated also? Like all instances &amp;quot;Memes&amp;quot; communities get pulled together? Examining [1] that appears to not be the case.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lemmy.world&amp;#x2F;c&amp;#x2F;android&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lemmy.world&amp;#x2F;c&amp;#x2F;android&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>BeefWellington</author><text>&amp;gt; delete your comments&lt;p&gt;Given reddit is apparently restoring deleted comments, that&amp;#x27;s going to be a useless gesture.[1]&lt;p&gt;I agree with the sentiment though; if people en masse migrated away from Reddit the way they did with Digg, that would be the only really impactful long-term gesture.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Regarding the sockpuppet thing, I mean, we&amp;#x27;ve literally seen that happen a number of times. When you see an account created in 2023 with no comment activity at all post, sure, that could be a lurker deciding to comment on this one very contentious issue. When you see a dozen in a sub that has 100k subscribers, that&amp;#x27;s odd but probably not unreasonable. When you see thousands, maybe something is going on.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;privacy&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;14av2z3&amp;#x2F;reports_of_reddit_restoring_deleted_commentsposts&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;privacy&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;14av2z3&amp;#x2F;reports_of...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>llm_nerd</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a pretty common sentiment that opinions that differ from our own must be corrupt, bought, sock-puppets, etc. People on virtually every side of any issue feel this way because it&amp;#x27;s comforting to imagine that our own opinion is the only authentic one.&lt;p&gt;Loads of reddit users are annoyed by the blackout thing and find the arguments for it unconvincing. I mean personally I think all of the blackout people should just leave Reddit. Delete your accounts, delete your comments, resign as mods. Let the rest of reddit just move on.</text></item><item><author>AnotherGoodName</author><text>Ha. There were some weird posts from new users in subreddits I frequent.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x27;we need to rise up against the mods the blackout is an outrage!&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;It was met with unanimous wtf is wrong with you, go outside. I get the feeling spez is creating new accounts and posting as them again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheCapn</author><text>I think one looking for alternatives needs to understand what they&amp;#x27;re hoping to gain from other resources.&lt;p&gt;If you want low effort jokes, or memes, the most likely outcome is you&amp;#x27;re going to migrate to where the most people are. Similar to how some subreddits overtook others in popularity, there&amp;#x27;ll be a federated instance that &amp;quot;wins&amp;quot;. We&amp;#x27;re sort of in a new frontiers phase where people are scrambling to find new homes and there&amp;#x27;ll be a lot of duplication until winners and losers are settled.&lt;p&gt;But in the end, if good memes come out of the most populous place. Reddit will probably just simply be the best you have. Anything else will be second rate. Perhaps &amp;#x27;the best&amp;#x27; will make its rounds through all sites as reposts just as 9Gag stuff and Imgur stuff finds its way to Reddit or Twitter, or TikTok.&lt;p&gt;But back to the main point. Lemmy&amp;#x2F;kbin&amp;#x2F;etc likely will never &lt;i&gt;be&lt;/i&gt; reddit. I&amp;#x27;m okay with that because I found most value in smaller niche communities (similar to how HackerNews scratches an itch that Reddit never could). I think there&amp;#x27;ll be plenty of opportunity to drop my reddit habits as I find moderately active NetSec&amp;#x2F;Programming&amp;#x2F;Networking&amp;#x2F;etc. communities on Lemmy. I&amp;#x27;ll keep Imgur for lazy image humor, and probably nod to reddit for catching the beat on my local community&amp;#x2F;provincial subs.&lt;p&gt;I still see it perhaps as a positive for myself. Loosening my Reddit addiction will be healthy long term. I&amp;#x27;ll be forced to make decisions on what topics matter to me and how I&amp;#x27;ll consume them instead of blindly marching through reddit on another doomscroll because it was convenient.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-will-change-rules-to-make-mods-less-powerful-2023-6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marktangotango</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been exploring the fediverse options like kbin and lemmy and I just don&amp;#x27;t see it. Maybe someone can explain. If one lemmy instance has a really popular community, say &amp;quot;Memes&amp;quot; how can that scale? There could be millions of posts and terabytes of data. Then if multiple lemmy instances have their own &amp;quot;Memes&amp;quot; communities, that&amp;#x27;s balkanized and a user would have to subscribe to each instances &amp;quot;Memes&amp;quot; community?&lt;p&gt;Or are communities federated also? Like all instances &amp;quot;Memes&amp;quot; communities get pulled together? Examining [1] that appears to not be the case.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lemmy.world&amp;#x2F;c&amp;#x2F;android&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lemmy.world&amp;#x2F;c&amp;#x2F;android&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>BeefWellington</author><text>&amp;gt; delete your comments&lt;p&gt;Given reddit is apparently restoring deleted comments, that&amp;#x27;s going to be a useless gesture.[1]&lt;p&gt;I agree with the sentiment though; if people en masse migrated away from Reddit the way they did with Digg, that would be the only really impactful long-term gesture.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Regarding the sockpuppet thing, I mean, we&amp;#x27;ve literally seen that happen a number of times. When you see an account created in 2023 with no comment activity at all post, sure, that could be a lurker deciding to comment on this one very contentious issue. When you see a dozen in a sub that has 100k subscribers, that&amp;#x27;s odd but probably not unreasonable. When you see thousands, maybe something is going on.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;privacy&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;14av2z3&amp;#x2F;reports_of_reddit_restoring_deleted_commentsposts&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;privacy&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;14av2z3&amp;#x2F;reports_of...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>llm_nerd</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a pretty common sentiment that opinions that differ from our own must be corrupt, bought, sock-puppets, etc. People on virtually every side of any issue feel this way because it&amp;#x27;s comforting to imagine that our own opinion is the only authentic one.&lt;p&gt;Loads of reddit users are annoyed by the blackout thing and find the arguments for it unconvincing. I mean personally I think all of the blackout people should just leave Reddit. Delete your accounts, delete your comments, resign as mods. Let the rest of reddit just move on.</text></item><item><author>AnotherGoodName</author><text>Ha. There were some weird posts from new users in subreddits I frequent.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x27;we need to rise up against the mods the blackout is an outrage!&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;It was met with unanimous wtf is wrong with you, go outside. I get the feeling spez is creating new accounts and posting as them again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandyarmstrong</author><text>You can have an account on one instance and subscribe to a community on another. There&amp;#x27;s no need for every instance to have a &amp;quot;memes&amp;quot; community, though there will undoubtedly be more than one. Then you can subscribe to the one(s) you like best. Not unlike how Reddit tends to have multiple subreddits for popular things with different mods, norms, and feels.</text></comment>