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Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
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this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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While I would expect the larger ones to see admin takeovers, I wonder how easy it will be recruit capable mods to police those large subs...
Oh 100% i see moderation suffering. But reddit will only care about that when it directly affects them financially. Which is to say that there is an amount of abuse and bigotry that reddit is cool with as long as it doesn't bring lawsuits or scare advertisers
100% agreed. Pulling out my fake crystal ball, I predict "Click-baitification" (tm) with an emphasis on quantity over quality to keep engagement numbers up for the IPO, while the comments will devolve into only low effort memes
Guaranteed the ipo backers will have their eye on that. I mean if all it's gonna be is bots and click-bait (ie: few real people) who the hell wants to spend millions/billions on that?
Will it really matter if all the power users and mods end up leaving? All that will be left is low effort stuff
It already is full of bots upvoting/replying to posts by karma bots. They just need to start having bots moderate the subs, and turn the whole place into r/subredditsimulator (still the best thing that ever came out of Reddit, imo).