Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

I’d disagree but it does depend on your instance and how you curate the content you want to view.

Sadly a lot of the good content will be lost, regardless of migration or encouraging users to take it off the site. Eventually someone in Reddit Inc. will have the "bright" idea to wipe everything out, to reduce spendings on data storage.

It’s still early days. I’ve been enjoying myself more here than I had been there so far. Still holds promise.

I think quality hobby communities like the ones that used to exist on Reddit require both smart people and a larger population to create a sense of social investment. This kind of information used to be distributed across forums with fewer than 1k people each, which isn't so bad, but does prevent it from propagating easily.

People have to post content, but most users lurk. It's a chicken/egg scenario.

I think social media is inherently incapable of fostering good content. By nature it is social as in interpersonal drama slanted. That's not considering shareholder factor yet. Early years reddit was an oddity at the unique intersection between message boards and the social media era. In the beginning they were in the money burning phase. Not concerned with making profit. So maximizing engagement at the cost of content quality wasn't on the table yet.

Quite frankly old reddits reputation became something larger than life sized. The expertise on reddit was never really that great. There was a lot of bad info but try telling a big headed neckbeard that.

Better content is to be found on the internet outside of social media. Find that person who hosts a site to share their content from a technical basis. The people who will not suffer fools. They want to talk about inner working of their widgets. They don't care about likes and subscriptions. They don't have shareholders to answer to.

Lemmy seems to be taking the route in attempt to rapid expansion by stuffing it with low content memes. A flaw is in trying to mimic social media when most people want message boards of yesteryear.

Don't know if it's good content but I really like posting here. 😎

This is spot on. But I do find myself back over there more than here even though voyager is immensely better than their mobile site/app. The Sink It for Reddit extension has made it more bearable.

Just wait until Greedy Pigboy says something that boils down to "leopards ate my face". It'll be fun.

And frankly I'm glad that we're seeing the consequences of that now, instead of later. Call it pettiness but I want to see the IPO failing hard.

Who would’ve thought getting rid of all the mods that were the SMEs would later become an issue?

Lol can’t even view your link without the app any more.

Perhaps, but the administration showed already that it doesn't really know what would piss off users and encourage them to leave, so there's a good chance that they'll still do it.

I'm only on reddit because the Godot community here is so small and I don't want to push for more fracturing of an already small community

I have seen this exact question so many times in my decade on r/canning before mods could nuke them. It’s kind of astounding how ignorant to food safety some of those posts can be and that was before the great mod purge. I really hope the rest of the community has stepped in to warn others if the mods aren’t doing their job to combat misinformation.

I wasn't expecting to leave the article having gained so much knowledge about canning

I've seen worse. Have you heard about the chicken sandwich drama?

• user1 calls a chicken sandwich a "chicken sandwich", in a food subreddit.
• user2 (an assumer unmoderating the sub) assumes that user1 is trying to "public shame" the OP, otherwise user1 would've called it a "chicken burger".
• user1 and user2 start discussing through modmail, while user2 is clearly harassing user1
• the discussion goes public
• people start mocking user2 with the words "chicken sandwich" in all subreddits that user2 unmoderates

Bonus points: user2 also moderates a subreddit known for its propensity to brigade and try to... public shame people based on their cooking opinions.

can someone provide a TL;DR of what happened

API changes happened. Mods protested against those API changes by privating their subs (blackout). Initially the blackout was expected to last two days, but plenty mods kept going indefinitely, because Reddit refused to undo the changes, and because plenty users were also pissed against Huffman smearing a third party app developer. Then Reddit resurrected the u/ModCodeOfConduct account to threaten the mods to go back, while pretending "I dun unrurrstand, u dun liek to mod than u leave lol" (in other words but in the same spirit). Plenty mods refused, so they were removed as mods. Then the same u/ModCodeOfConduct account started recruiting bozos and vultures to moderate the subs where the mods were kicked out.

TL;DR: of the TL;DR: Reddit didn't revert changes. Mods were kicked out. Dumbarses in their place.

Changes not reverted. Many mods dismissed. Many subs forcefully taken over, with very young accounts appointed to lead them.

Granted, I haven’t been back in many weeks now, but that was the state of affairs last time I was paying close attention.

Mod order is still just seniority mixed with interpersonal drama, in a fiefdom structure. That doesn't change, even if the "senior" in question was recruited 5min ago.

What does change however is: emotional attachment to the platform, the subreddit, and the topic; personal and inherited (from older mods) experience; willingness to moderate a small community and make it grow.

It's also worth noting that a lot of those powermods who are eager to create interpersonal drama and abuse seniority are still there. The APIcalypse only gave them more room for expansion. Cue to Bardfinn defending Spez and trying to gaslight users with "ackshyually, spez defeated a fusker scheme".

You tried, bot-kun. You tried.