Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit

that's awesome, keep it up =)

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A few people the other day were catching site wide bans for suggesting fediverse. Others have had no problem. I think it depends on the mood of newly installed mods or if a pissed off admin sees you. Obviously also your tone.

I surmise Threads being somewhat part of the fediverse actually might have made it easier to get away with telling people about Lemmy/kbin but I haven't been over to reddit to test this out due to trying to quit cold turkey.

I feel like any mention of lemmy or other competing platforms is suppressed on reddit. At least I saw no activity on any of my posts nor have I saw such posts from others.

The fact that reddit is now built into the infrastructure of supporting suffering people is literally so fucked.
And that it is something WE have to worry about. Is anyone else worried? Any governments? No.

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I believe 90% of those "hurr durrs" were bots by Spez trying to psyops the protests and failing like the dipship that he is.

This was my last comments on reddit. We aren't just protesting the changes because we support 3rd party and mods - we protest so the community can stay there.

yeah, more or less. but I appreciate them speeding it up, since, you know, taking into account our short attention span.

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I know that's commonly said but I think most want to create a community for their interest.

Yeah, its the tech-aware who have dumped Reddit. Unfortunately part of the magic was that it had grown to the point that if you went looking you could end up talking to anybody from a diesel engine mechanic to a paragliding instructor, not just a bunch of tech nerds. I think this'll be the sticking point, lemmy/kbin is still 95%+ tech nerds.

I think this wave just gave us enough of a userbase to start establishing the infrastructure for general communities here, not even really specialized ones yet. But those will provide escape areas whenever the next wave occurs.

It’s the beginning of the end if you catch my drift.

There’s no way Reddit can recover from this.

Lemmy needs to hit critical mass and the talented devs making Reddit better as a hobby will come here and make it even better. Reddit's dev team got lazy and complacent because outside devs were doing their job for them better and for free which is pretty ridiculous. If you put a monetary value on the bot defence teams work it would in the millions. Other companies have a team of full time employees fighting spam, Reddit was getting it for free.

If your not using wefwef already, try it out.

Closest thing to Apollo right now.

Louis Rossmann put his thoughts into the whole saga. He says what's going on with Reddit is Huffman doing the equipment of a business road rage. Somebody crossed him so bad he wanted nothing but to annihilate that person's livelihood even if it means crashing and burning his own company.

There's no way he's competent enough to do this good of a job destroying his company on purpose.

That's what I don't get either, at this point I don't see how anyone would willingly spend their time modding on reddit, so there they must be doing it against their will!

I guess they just don’t want their community to die / be destroyed.

Out of curiosity, are you modding here now?

You guys underestimate the amount of abuse that people who have nothing else are willing to go through.

Exactly, it was kind of a facetious comment, but it is kind of sad there's mods that feel a sense of obligation to run a corporate social media site and that the reddit leadership is banking on the social currency of being a mod keeping any sort of value.