This week’s rebellion is a response to part of Reddit’s plan to succeed as a business
Not a hint of bias in this article, is there?
I think that goes for all authoritarians really, I mean, post WW2 east Germany was the German Democratic Republic, which was anything but democratic under Soviet occupation. Fascists for sure, but don’t think authoritarian communists don’t use the same playbook.
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While I definitely think it’s a bad idea to closely equate the two. You are not that wrong. Fascists are far worse. But authoritarians in general are not desirable. When those in control of absolute power feel threatened for their power the well-being of those underneath them goes out the window. It’s how you get waves of genocide under fascists. And dissenters under authoritarian leninist communism shooting themselves in the back of the head three times or falling out of the window backwards onto bullets.
Sounds like a people problem to me. We really gotta take better care of ourselves, don’t we? All of us. How do you ever stop this from happening? Where do we go from here? I guess that’s why the status quo is upheld.
What a slow rolling machine we are.
It definitely is a problem of human nature to be sure. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Most people just want to live their lives and don’t seek power. The few that do seek power generally should never have it. But we do need some minimal power structures.
Part of the biggest issues is education. In western nations Political literacy and education is purposefully deficient. Because it benefits those in charge of the systems. Not to say it isn’t similar in other style countries. Ignorance is always a useful tool however.
Yep. There is an obvious malice for personal gain. I can feel it.
I always narrow it down to education. But how. The ideology is so strewn about, by design.
We’d need to teach stuff like mindfulness in school. Something that should be taught, but would be looked down on as some flavor of other. I wish I was taught to think and live. I was taught how to keep my head down and hate myself. This is just how it is.
They really dug in deep. All over the world. Kudos to them for holding “power”, whatever that is. I can feel it before I go to bed, telling me what I’m not allowed to say aloud.
People even pray to the ugly thing. Imagine that. Praying to something other than your own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others prayers.
Anybody else starting to suspect that spez might have committed a teeny tiny bit of investor fraud?
F U/Spez.
“minority”
Also I can’t believe he doesn’t see how problematic voting for mod privileges can be. There’s a reason reddit has refused to allow users to vote out moderators in the past. If you allow voting, you allow outsidebrigadier, astroturfing, and also just petty mod squabbling. The solution reddit has always offered in the past was “create your own new subreddit for the idea you want and then get people to come over to it”. In general it’s worked. The existence of r/pics hasn’t disallowed other picture-based subreddits from flourishing, same with r/funny and, well, actually funny subs.
Allowing votes on moderation just opens reddit up to a lot of shenanigans that I don’t think the admin team is ready for.
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Democracy for the volunteers while Spez maintains the “landed gentry” only for himself. This shithead’s lack of self awareness would be comically stupid if it were in any way comical.
Did you see that they removed the top level mod of /r/Piracy and was looking for a new one? Soooo they support piracy now? https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555
So, by his reasoning isn’t he the ultimate “landed gentry”? He’s CEO simply because he’s been there since the beginning not because of any particular business acumen. Should we put it to a reddit wide vote to see if he should retain that title or be kicked to the curb? He likes votes, right? He likes democracy, right? Right?
He’s a privileged white boy complaining about slavery while operating scheme to not pay his employees.
Following the true core of (his alma mater) UVA’s founder’s principles. He’s probably fucking one of the in-house supermods on the side, too.
Who?
Gee, I feel so slammed right now, you don’t even know.
I don’t. I’m not a Reddit user (anymore).
Next up: Blasted.
So part of the issue with this “democracy” idea and making it easier to vote out mods is that Huffman has literally been found guilty of changing comments.
That, along with the fact that we can’t trust reddit to not chime in with false accounts to swing the vote make me dubious that it would work.
I’ll start believing in Reddit’s commitment to direct democracy when users will be able to also vote out admins and u/spez if they don’t like their decisions.
Until then, it’s just corporatism under the guise of some fluffy words.
It’s like when you let kids vote on what to do for the school faire.
Not only will the teacher and school change the result if they don’t like the winning suggestion, you also can’t vote to do nothing or protest the event
It’s just a way to give you the illusion of autonomy to boost engagement. It’s only a choice between the decisions they find (more or less) equally acceptable
Hilarious that he wants democracy to get rid of mods, but he wants absolute power for himself.
And tell me more how this will attract unpaid mods.
I think there will be mods either way. There are too many lonely people desperate for any kind of recognition and lust for power.
What we’ll have to see if how that actually works out
Did anybody else lose the ability to report? I guess that’s why I got a week ban for “report abuse” even though the linked report was agreed with and actioned by Reddit, they’re starting to take down anyone flagging the Christoterroism shit since Spez has allied up with Musk.
Judging by what I saw on my last day on Reddit, he may be right.
A lot of mods already opened back up. Reddit wont have to do nothin the way things are going
The mods may/should be questioning why they bother. I think we’ll see many leaving over time.
In the smallish sub I mod (~300k subs) the mods are discussing what to do. One will step down regardless of what happens. One is trying to migrate us to Lemmy, and the others have not made up their minds. From the outside it still looks like it’s business as usual though.
Silence doesn’t necessarily mean acceptance
We’ll see whether or not the 3PAs dying makes their jobs harder enough that they leave or not.
