I’ve been the main moderator of the same community since 2016. This evening, i approved my last comment.

I’m leaving for two reasons:

  1. Reddit went public a week ago. I didn’t volunteer to work for a publicly traded company, i volunteered to work for a community. As long as i live under capitalism i accept that my labor will generate value for shareholders, but damned if i ever do it for free. (this is not a Faulkner quote)

  2. April 1st is coming and i’m scared they might do another r/place. Doing in r/place 2022 and 2023 has left me dejected and bitter and i don’t want to feel obligated to participate again.

Leaving felt like ripping myself off of something warm i’ve been comfortably glued to for a long time. Still recommend it for anyone still giving Reddit shareholders free labor

EDIT: there are too many comments to respond to, but i’ve appreciated all of them! Thank you

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 months ago

    If you have it in you, please recreate your previous subreddit here in the fediverse. There’s less tools, but also far less users, and plenty of room to make tools.

    A ton of niche communities didn’t make it over here during the “exodus”. Any little bit helps.

  • mysoulishome@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I’m sorry. The corporate assholes don’t deserve to pad their fat wallets based on your free labor, but it’s still absolutely the loss of something you love when you step away and it hurts. I’m still grieving losing Apollo and all of the goofy, weird ass little subs and brilliant human beings who made me laugh and cry every day on Reddit. It’s not been replaced in my life. It took millions of us almost 20 years to make that stupid website something incredible…I can’t deny that it was incredible at points.

    It’s gone, it’s just a website now and an app with ads every 3rd pixel just like the rest. There is still some good content and good people, just as there are on TikTok, Bookface, X and insta. The decent shit that is there, on all of the platforms, is overwhelmed by their horrible algorithm trying to sell you shit and increase engagement to monetize your every click.

  • woop_woop@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This is silly to me. So you’re happy working for free at a private company, but not a public one? The fact that them going public was known for a while was fine? The lack of care they showed you as a private company while taking the shitty concrete steps to go public were all fine?

    If yu want to take a hard look at your role, when the last revolt during the API changes happened, the revolt failed because mods like you wouldn’t stand up. So it’s funny to me to see what the “final straw” is for you, because in the grand scheme of things, it seems like nothing.

    I certainly don’t understand why you would move to another place in the Internet and announce this silly view.

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      I can agree with your point, the API changes should have been the breaking point. Keep in mind there’s going to be a lot of different final straws for people though, it is inevitable as traditional social media collapses into itself. The best time was yesterday, the next best is now.

      • woop_woop@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        I totally get that - but coming to another platform to announce it is just funny to me, and I think the questions I asked at the start were valid and I’m genuinely curious about the answers.

    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      No need to be an asshole about it, the important thing is that he moved on, the path he took is not relevant.

      • woop_woop@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        I didn’t think I was being an asshole. The questions I asked were genuine, and I think I was pretty neutral with pointing out how OP shares blame in the situation they are in.

        And, through all that, i summed it up with how silly this whole situation is - especially when you look at how OP is responding in the thread. This comes across as a “look at me, I did something good, tell me how nice I am” post. Given the rest of the situations context, just ugh.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    I did the same thing last July, left to switch full-time to Lemmy (I registered my first Lemmy account @mp3@lemmy.ml a long time ago EDIT: jeez 5 years ago already?!) and somewhat abandoned my account.

    I was then approached by the lemmy.ca admins, asking if I would be interested to help administer the website, which I gladly accepted. I do not regret one minute giving my time to the fediverse.

    I went back to Reddit last month to remove my account from being a moderator on all the communities I was part of. I didn’t even tell anyone, I just left. Reddit is way past its prime.

    • nutomic@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      I still remember your name from the early days, it’s great that you stuck around! How much Lemmy changed in these few years…

  • frostmore@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    reddit claims to be the face of the internet. so obviously there are going to be good and bad people…only it seems like there are more bad than good.

    you’ll also notice,cancel culture is pervasive in social media,to the point it became toxic. any time any facts that doesn’t fit the narratives of the idiots,you get downvoted and/or called/branded derogatory names.

    an anecdotal observation,i have my fair share of run ins with right wing crazies spouting nonsense on social media such as reddit but honestly, it’s mostly the left where i saw true craziness and experienced fascist behaviours.