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[-] Tygr@lemmy.world 182 points 1 year ago

A few larger moderators I know personally are saying they aren’t enjoying the new Reddit experience and at least one says they plan to leave within a few months.

What really isn’t being talked about is the fractured trust. None of them feel they are maintaining their own community anymore. They feel like they are maintaining a subreddit for Reddit’s profit ambitions. That’s a huge distinction.

The other side is just being forced to moderate via the website or their trash app. They hate the experience now. If you were a mobile-only moderator, you hate it now, almost guaranteed.

Then the bot detection network and everything else shutting down is making the free service they provide feel more and more like a job vs “for the good feeling of building a community.”

Reddit won’t die overnight but it will continue to decay with users slowly making their exit to other platforms.

[-] hoodatninja@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago

Glad to see this being acknowledged/making the rounds. I highlighted some of this in my own mod resignation post (not to pat myself too hard on the back here), as have other members of the mod team I was a part of. The changes are bad, but the complete disregard for (and dismissal of) this relationship mods and Reddit crafted for over 15 years just came crumbling down. No matter what the future holds for the site, that relationship is dead. And many of us don’t want to mod under the new circumstances.

[-] Tygr@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

Just wanted to say, I really enjoyed Reddit prior to the API-apocalypse. I appreciated all of you guys and gals over there keeping things structured and orderly. I came from Slashdot to Digg to Reddit and now Lemmy. Really enjoying it here but there’s always that thought in the back of my mind of hoping it doesn’t grow to the scope of Reddit.

Right now, we seem to have a lot of technical folks who contribute. Far less fighting and drama. It’s been nice. lol

[-] hoodatninja@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Appreciate that. It’s a bummer but on to greener pastures!

[-] BuckRowdy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Hey hello. I made my first “resignation” post last night. I haven’t had time to properly untangle everything yet but im here now.

[-] hoodatninja@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Have I seen you around modcoord server? Your profile pic is familiar haha

[-] BuckRowdy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] hoodatninja@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
[-] BuckRowdy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry about that. Yes I’m a mod of the sub and discord.

[-] hoodatninja@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ahh that’d make sense haha. I’m terrible with usernames.

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