Main points: He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.

Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.

He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.

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    come work for free

    No thanks

    builds an entire self-hosted instance of an open source, federated social media network…

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    popular elections in an ecosystem 1/4 bots, in which the admins hold ultimate unilateral authority.

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      Spez is such a nice guy, protecting the innocent users from the greedy elites who control the site. /s

      1/4 bots, 1/4 advertising, 1/4 Onlyfans “entrepreneurs” and 1/4 users. What could possibly go wrong?

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      1/4 bots, 1/4 paid advertising, 1/4 Onlyfans “entrepreneurs” and 1/4 users. What could go wrong?

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      Yeah, way fewer people will be willing to put in the effort modding if they can just be voted out. And subreddits that are supposed to represent minority opinions will just get voted out by the opposition.

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    Doesn’t matter what changes he makes I’m never going back to that site that it’s filled with karma farmers, bots and onlyfans spamers

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      When the subreddits went private I visited reddit three times, then a couple of times the next day, then once the following day. I haven’t visited today and honestly I’m not missing it too much. If I get the urge to visit I just come here and it acts as my reddit nicotine patch.

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      Well this will bring me back to reddit… So I can vote out the mods who want to reopen the sub.

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      Honestly fuck reddit. I was so tired of it, but there was nowhere else to go. At least I can develope a more healthy relationship with social media here

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      Yea I’m actually glad there’s an exodus of people who care. The ones who don’t, I don’t care about them either.

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    He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.

    I totally second this idea. The last time we tried to get the internet to seriously decide on something we got Boaty McBoatface.

    Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.

    Even better. All posts in these subs can be advertisements, perfect.

    He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.

    Yeah, don’t even spend 3% of revenues as a cost of doing business. The soon-to-be-community-elected mods will do it for free. Super.

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      The last time we tried to get the internet to seriously decide on something we got Boaty McBoatface.

      And lo, the Internet looked down upon it’s handiwork, and verily, t’was awesome.

      All posts in these (business) subs can be advertisements, perfect.

      And nobody will ever go there. And, two years down the track, u/spaz will hoik up the pricing or cut them off entirely because they’re making money off of a non-profitable Reddit. “We want to work with the business subs but they’re not interested in talking to us and have all thrown their toys out of the pram and shut down”.

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        Imo in 2 years down the track reddit will be scrubed of nsfw, and then sold to someone else who will maybe try to integrate it with facebook/other social medias to try and get new users

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    Watch subs elect actual Nazis, trolls, incels and transphobes to be moderators for the lols and then the site ends up being a cesspool.

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    I’m betting it will not be one account one vote. He’ll stack the deck, just wait.

    Even if it is one account one vote, the bot armies will be there to ensure the outcome the admins want. Moderator puppets to do the will of the admin team, fuck us pleb slobs that are the community and make his shitty site worth visiting.

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    The bigger, sadder problem is that it would actually work. There’s never been a more divided time in the world than now. You’d think everyone would see how disgraceful Reddit’s actions have been and want nothing to do with the platform anymore, but realistically not everyone cares. It’s already happening where you can simply tell mods that they aren’t being paid for their time and instead of them thinking logically, they go ahead and ban you to silence you.

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      It’s not like they don’t know it’s not paid, if it’s a fun hobby people choose to support the communities they love they’d spend the time anyway. But with every move to make Reddit more corporate it makes the sites reliance on volunteers more exploitative.

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        Eh. a large majority of subreddits are moderated by just a few people as top mods. They’re not modding out of the goodness of their hearts. They’re modding because they’re being paid to. (but not by reddit. It gives them a shit load of influence over what’s on their subs, and companies find that… useful.)

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    OK so it’s basically US politics now? Lol. Sham Wow. This is actually pathetic and made me crack up.

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      Ok, reading the article, removing mods through voting doesnt sound too bad when you consider that turtle-something mod, who moderates way too many servers and removes/bans every post/user talking shit about them. Finally we can get power hungry mods out the fucking door.

      Too bad they only decided to work on it to kick those mods keeping the blackout alive. Like why do they want to fight their userbase so badly

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    subreddits as businesses

    I’ll admit, I didn’t have faith that he could, but he actually came up with a worse idea

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      Death of communities as they become storefronts. Peak capitalism

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      I don’t even think it’s an original idea, I’m sure there’s mods in brand subs (video games, for example) who are employees for the company which owns the product. He’s just making it official and I bet he’s gonna ask for a pretty penny for it.