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submitted 1 year ago by IncognitoWolf@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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I keep looking back at what's happening with Reddit, not because I want to go back, but just morbid curiosity on if they will ever get their head out of their ass. The more I see, the more I feel the move to kbin was the right move. Removing mods, falsifying information, lying, deception, and just not listening to the community. Not only that, just looking at the content post blackout and it isn't the same anymore.

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[–] markrprior@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Weirdmusic if it's anything like Twitter (and it seems the same playbook is being used) then the only impact will be on the creators of the 3rd party apps (both by the end of their subscription revenue and more critically people requesting refunds on existing subscriptions). The company "owns" the infrastructure containing the content so assuming the integrity of the backups isn't breached then no amount of scrubbing with remove it (although EU legislation may claim some of it). Therefore it's only a question of time before things return to "normal" and the IPO can proceed. Reputational damage is the only thing that will really have a chance of derailing it.

@IncognitoWolf

[–] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@markrprior I have my doubts that things will return to normal. Reddit has only promised mod tools and they haven't delivered on that promise. Until that time, moderators won't be able to run their bots to help moderate their respective subreddits properly. Until they deliver on those moderation tools, the subreddits are going to be in disarray. How long before users decide it's not worth it any longer? Reddit may somewhat recover from this, but I highly doubt they will entirely recover.

IMO it's a death knell (albeit a very long, drawn out death). Once public, that's when the real changes are going to occur that will sour the user experience, and it will be over the course of several months...even years. Then (as is shown in this case) investor/shareholder return becomes priority. The C-Suite won't care about the user, because once public the user is the product.

@IncognitoWolf @Weirdmusic