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[–] [email protected] 109 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (41 children)

Seems like the way for reddit to "solve" this is to just close bad subs.

But that's easily exploited, if people migrate to other subs and start protesting the sub closures, those subs get worse and they need to be closed...

Oh no, reddit, did you just discover that you relied on your users to make your site good and by screwing them over you've made your entire business unsustainable at scale?

Also, somewhat related, is there a short snappy name for lemmy communities? Some people call them subs out of habit but I don't wanna do that, and "communities" is four whole syllables, and ain't nobody got time for that.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (6 children)

"solve"

to make your site good

unsustainable

I think you're misunderstanding reddit's goal. Over the past year, they have been in IPO mode. They don't care about making the site good or attracting a healthy community. They want to cash out and are burning down any structures that are providing any resistance to that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

They don’t care about making the site good or attracting a healthy community.

They never cared about the "healthy" part either, just "big". Reddit has been a cesspool for years and years and years, largely thanks to the moderators.

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