That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.

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    Digg still exists as of today. The lack of moderators and content creators will probably lead to a bot / meme / political agenda factory.

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      Twitter is still here as well, without much moderation.

      The platforms survive. Interactions just get a lot worse. But most people still refuse to leave.

      I don’t want to be a part of that system anymore, which is why I’m here even though I don’t necessarily believe this form of federation social network is designed very well.

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        1 year ago

        What is a well designed social network according to you?

        (Not trying to pick a fight! I’m just interested in hearing what other people are after)

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          Whenever I’d contemplated systems like this I had assumed that the communities and the user account stuff would be seperate to one another. It seems off to have first order and second order communities based on the instance you join. I think it would make more sense to join an instance that has no real communities (other than stuff like instance related news) and then connect to the instances that have communities you care about. I’m a bit too tired to articulate why exactly right now. I would not be surprised if we end up there eventually though even if it’s not enforced by design.

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          This article explains it pretty well. Though it focuses on Mastodon and similar Twitter clones, which all suffer from being clones of a dog shit idea for social media.

          Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out

          Largest shortcoming is that in order to see any content, you (or someone else on your instance) needs to follow someone/thing else from a different instance, and the only way to do that is to pour over hundreds or thousands of other websites. This means that objectively, the best experience for a new user is to join the largest instance available, which kind of defeats the purpose of federation. Also, 99%+ of users couldn’t care less about federation and there aren’t (m)any other selling points so nobody cares to leave the platforms they’re already established on.

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            This is a good criticism of federated social media. I must spend much more time finding cool stuff. But after being stroked on the back by algorithms that are pretty good at guessing what I’m into, I’m too lazy do do all that jazz by myself

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      To be fair, a lot of Reddit was starting to turn into that anyway. Not the more niche subs, but many of the bigger ones had been going in that direction for a while now.

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        Yes, r/all felt like bots responding to bots lately. Multiple times people “steal someone’s comment”. Niche subreddits are definitely not that though