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xc2215x,

Spez loves Musk apparently.

Seasoned_Greetings,

I’ve heard that moneied interests are paying Twitter and now reddit behind the scenes to ruin their respective communities. It’s because every time something happens that shakes the foundation of who’s in charge, it’s always a social media coordinated public effort behind the push for change. The most recent one I can think of is the Twitter-fueled women’s rights movement in Iran. Or even the push to get progressive names like AOC elected.

So now we have rich interests paying CEOs to sabotage their own companies in order to better maintain the status quo.

I know this concept falls squarely into conspiracy theory territory, but with Twitter and reddit, both once bastions of progressive organization, going to shit at the same time, and threads popping up with the messaging that they explicitly want to avoid news and politics, you can’t help but wonder if there’s a concentrated effort behind the scenes to break up communities that are actually starting to make a difference.

Pons_Aelius,

Most people expect gradual change when many things in life are more like punctuated equilibrium.

Stable state despite gradual change in underlying conditions.

Then rapid change to new stable state.

brianshatchet,

I already knew they didn't want moderators to have better anti-spam tools since it would decrease the apparent activity to attract advertisers.

Neato,
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Nobody wants to change. It's hard and expensive. Until they have to because conditions have required it. Then they change as fast as possible to a new state that works in the new conditions so they can survive.

Deralax,

I've already felt the sting of the protests when googling solutions to various issues. I used to be able to include "reddit" in the search and would almost always find relevant information quickly, but now as OP mentioned many posts and whole communities have gone dark.

It's all been really eye opening about the potential negative consequences of having so many communities and information in the control of so few.

Overzeetop,
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  1. Get rid of old.reddit (im not count that - it’s low hanging fruit)
  2. Block web access on mobile.
  3. Require non-VoIP SMS for signup and login
  4. Lock all content behind a loginwall, Pinterest/(& Twitter?) style
  5. Lock replies and posts behind a paid tier
  6. Lock content more than x months old behind a paid tier
  7. Eliminate all NSFW content
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