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Cake day: March 18th, 2025

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  • True, but Reddit let this problem fester for a long time.

    What’s interesting to me here regarding this, is Reddits current preparation timescale. This isn’t going to be enforced until March 31st, 2026. This tells me that Reddit would have been unprepared for a complete mass-walkout of community moderators during the 2023 Reddit API strikes. A large chunk of Reddit during that period was genuinely inaccessible. But after a few token gestures and a few examples made of some especially rebellious mod-teams, most of the striking moderators returned.

    A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website. You can’t just hastily promote random people to replace moderators Reddit is either forced to remove or who leave voluntarily. The average person is likely too lazy, too arbitrary and too corrupt to effectively oversee communities of notable sizes.












  • less funding plus more features isn’t selling it. just means it’s not maintainable long term.

    All the other instances survive across the Fediverse on less funding.

    besides my ick is more from the user base not the software. any if the piefed users I’ve ran across are trying to hard sell piefed. I don’t like car salesmen, so it just gives me the ick.

    It’s quite advanced in comparison to Lemmy in many ways, regardless of what you think of how people try to sell it.