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This NSFW protest was the perfect funeral for a website that became famous with the jizz box, poop knife, etc.
I was pretty sad to see a platform I loved die, but sadness was replaced with laughter over the past few days. Seeing middle aged dads posts their hairy buttholes out of anger. ๐ค๐
Don't forget the coconut.
Wow. Those are huge subreddits that are now unmoderated. Is Reddit planning on using bots to auto mod these and hope they catch all the spammage?
ChatGPT.
That just reinforces the decision to leave.
One of the commenters on the article claims to be a mod from the sub. They've been reinstated with zero communication, probably from the media pressure. And the mod-less sub starting to go up in flames.
Honestly it sounds like spez is fucking around in the backend again.
Reddit is becoming mildly interesting
I get that this is all blowing up and very publicly, but Iโm worried that there is still far too much traffic going to Reddit to make a huge difference. There will have to be something else drastic I think to really force them to do something.
Reddit is terminal, even if it appears on the surface to be still functional. For two reasons: a) the IPO has caused an irreconcilable rift between user, and the shareholders, and b) Reddit has shattered the trust between it and the users and community leaders (mods, Reddit may call them unelected, but in reality they are elected by popularity of each subreddits -- mods do not have a monopoly over a topic like gaming there can and are many).
It's not immediately apparent, but Reddit will come out of this completely changed, having lost it's true value: the rich community that had gathered there. For a time, there will be posts, but it'll be a cesspit of low effort content, monetized crap, and paid promotion. WTF wants to stick around for that? And then the customers (advertisers) will leave because there is a poor audience. And then it will die, like all enshitified products do.